Live and let others live

I came across this picture in Nepalitimes today  and just this picture was enough for  me to get disturbed, let alone read the article about deforestation and poaching.

 

The caption of the picture reads

OUTRAGE: A male rhino with its horn hacked off found in Bardiya National Park in April

An endangered animal like rhino is ruthlessly killed here just for it’s horn? The rhino horn trade is illegal but still people are finding ways to continue it. A quick google on rhino horn trade shows me that a rhino horn sells for from $ 21,000 to $ 54,000 per kilogram (2 pounds). Is is really worth killing a helpless animal?

 

The above picture is from a cookout party that I attented couple of months ago . They shot the hog for the cook-out. If I had known that it was a “hog” cook-out party I would have never attended. It looked so gross, the hog ( though it was dead) was hung helplessly. I did not even dare to eat it but was stunned when it was ready to be devoured, it was gone fast. In 30 minutes the remains of it was nothing but just bones, this totally grossed me out. Seriously, where are we mankind heading too?

I am against fishing too and was so glad when my husband decided to give up fishing and take on some other hobby. One fine day as he was fishing it made no sense to him to catch fish. That was the last I saw him fishing. We are so thankful for that day, that we often talk about it.

All of this just makes me think about us, the mankind. What rights do we have to kill these innocent creatures – just becauese we are smarter and superior than them? Does the earth not belong to them equally as it belongs to us?

The first picture is taken from nepalitiems.com from the article Going, going gone
The second picture is taken by me .