Last year, there was a big scandal when US Vice President Dick Cheney shot a 78 year-old lawyer in the face while hunting canned birds in Texas. Characteristicly, most newscasts blabbered on about the lawyer getting shot and no one seemed to focus much on the fact that Dick and his buddies killed over 400 practically domesticated birds.
The definition of canned hunting is "the hunting of captive animales in a confined area". Canned hunting generally occurs on private land where laws protecting wildlife are either inapplicable o difficult to enforce. Hunters pay to kill native o exotic (and...
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