Effective immediately, we will no longer transport buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion or rhino trophies.
— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) August 4, 2015
Effective immediately, we will no longer transport buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion or rhino trophies.
— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) August 4, 2015
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They don't transport me either, which is fine by me. I'm sure a trophy hunter can afford better travel as well.
Thanks, you plane-delaying, baggage-losing, peanut-distributing-and-calling-it-dinner bozos for contributing to the economic devaluation of these animals and consequent evaporation of any local motivation to preserve them outside of zoos. Nobody is asking you to hunt big game or even like big game hunters. Just mind your own business and suppress the urge to meddle and scold and nudge and ban and, just in general, stop being such a quisling brown nosing goody goody. I'm not a big fan of boycotting but if large corporations are going to start boycotting individual members of the population, don't be too surprised if there's payback.
What about a tiger trophy? Or a polar bear trophy? Why does American Airlines only ban trophies from Africa? Could it be ... raaaacism?
That's how it starts. Next they'll be banning Rod Stewart's wife.
I think United started this bullshit.
In a place were vicious despots chop up people like weeds in a field and rape them by the truckload, then fly from place to place like tourists from hell, and we have this brave on-target display by SJW airlines.
In a place were vicious despots chop up people like weeds in a field and rape them by the truckload, then fly from place to place like tourists from hell, and we have this brave on-target display by SJW airlines.
IOW, you believe the existence of atrocious behavior anywhere in the world is a good excuse for abetting smaller atrocities elsewhere.
Thanks.
I thought Delta started it. If the "trophies" are legal in the country they were obtained in, and legal according to whoever decides that worldwide. I am really getting tired of this cr*p.
There was a NYT column a couple years ago about hunting and trophies, written by the then head director of wildlife for the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. Saving Lions by Killing Them
For the record he was fired in 2014 but as they say the "rest of the story" is here, where politics came in to play and he pissed off the wrong corrupt Tanzanian big wig. Songorwa sacked But it might have been because he was tough on poachers (a "shoot to kill' reference in the comments).
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