5-8 SS Angel-Another View

 More reaction about the Texas Farms that allow hunting of African species.

I’ve had many discussions with expert African hunter Bob Angel regarding hunters going to huge ranches in places like Texas to take exotic species… Species that are extinct in Africa but have been raised by the thousands on Texas ranches. “I know that you have hunted in Africa. Right. That’s my take on a David, we have had plenty of discussions about Africa you know that. These are protected by the federal government as regulations prohibiting  the importation of animals that are endangered or various degrees of protection internationally. It is called the CITES Treaty to which almost all countries are members. This is so that people don’t go out and shoot rhinos and all of these other things and then try and bring them back into the country. It’s to protect the animals so they are trying to stretch the laws little bit to say that the rights of landowners and people who own livestock, in this case wild game, should not be able to do so, but they have done it for years. In fact there are ranches all over the United States that raise bison, deer, elk, that raise all kinds of animals, that legally you can go out and pay so much and wander around a huge ranch for a couple of days and shoot a deer or a bison so what is the difference whether it happens to be an African animal? Some ranches in Texas have 20 or more species of African animals there. These come from species that they brought back from herds in Africa before they were exterminated 50, 60, 70 years ago.