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originated. The land was no mother to them, or none they would admit to; the Earth, as woman
to their depravity, was objectified and commodified to be raped and pillaged, and these
prospectors of land were prospectors of flesh, and what was ordained to be tamed and made
bloom was theirs for the taking, theirs for the killing, and theirs for the plundering. She must
be dominated. She must be overpowered. She must be controlled.

That is the prevailing attitude today of the “great white hunters” and their political enablers.
Whereas to us, all born of the Earth are the matter of her body, and in spirit they are feminine,
each a shape of the earth. Those mutations of misogyny and patriarchy fester within the status
quo. In their concept of “wildlife management” killing is of the essence, only they are not
intellectually honest enough to say “killing” – they employ euphemisms such as “harvest.” One
does not harvest a grizzly bear, a wolf or a lion. You harvest a crop, most often grown for that
purpose. The Creator did not place these sacred beings upon the Earth for thrill killing; for
“trophy hunting.” Of course, among the vocal minority, the tiny percentage of the affluent
who comprise the constituency of international trophy killers, are claims that trophy hunting
has its validation in their God’s decree to Noah in Genesis 9:3, and is given in the context of
that cataclysmic flood – but that might be splitting hairs to these Remington and Bowtech
theologians. For their purposes, Genesis is a poor choice, as Genesis 1:29-30 reveals how God’s
original intent was for man and beast alike to be vegetarian, the meat God spoke of being the
fruit of seed. “Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud
is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean. Of all the
animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you.” (Leviticus
11:26-27). But still they want the heads and robes of our sacred relatives, the ones they call
“predators.”

For as long as charlatans have manipulated them, religious texts have been the last bastions of
maniacs in their attempts to legitimize and vindicate acts of sadism. Trophy hunters are serial
killers by definition; all that is left to debate is the nature of their victims. Robert Hansen, a
record-book trophy hunter, developed into a notorious serial killer of women. The fallacy that
continues to be sold by Safari Club International, the Boone and Crockett Club, and state
“game” agencies is that these “wildlife enthusiasts” are responsible for the preservation and