I swear I posted this yesterday but I can't find it: One Year Later, Cecil the Lion

[Flaxbee]

From Oxford's WildCRU:

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Great little clip!

As to finding your OP's: I always bookmark mine, and that makes it easy to find them.

[Flaxbee]

6. I usually do, or can find them easily in the "my posts" section

I think I probably hit 'preview' and then got distracted and didn't hit 'post'.

Hey, CP.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. It is easy to do that!

Hey, Flaxbee.

[passiveporcupine]

3. Whoops...this is not the thread I was responding to.

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I never even saw this thread. Don't know how my answer got here. I was responding to a video by Chris Rock.

[denbot]

4. My wife mentioned Cecil earlier today.

I'm going to kick this and show it to Mrs. denbot when she gets home. I think she may want to help them.

[Flaxbee]

5. I donated then, and I donated earlier this week.

I can't ever do a lot, but I hope my little bits here and there help.

Hey, denbot How're you doing?

[denbot]

8. Hi back at ya

Doing good, hope you're the same.

[Seeinghope]

9. As silly as it may seem, I stopped eating meat because of Cecil.

People say that it is silly, or it doesn't help and I say that I had been moving into that direction for awhile. Cecil just made me decide to do what I had been wanting to do for awhile. I will always be sickened by what happened to him and I am still sickened by what still happens to any and all animals at the hands of humans. Bowing out of the equation of contributing to the suffering of animals by supporting the way that they are farmed and housed and basically just maintained in meaningless lives by corporate farms just for people to be able to eat more meat than they need to consume.

This is my choice. I hate the "industry". And how the animals are treated. Cecil gave me the courage to follow thru and I thank him. He will always be part of my life because so.

[Flaxbee]

10. An admirable choice it is. Not silly at all.

If Cecil's senseless, sickening death led to more human compassion for animals, at least some amount of good came from it.

I don't ever order or choose meat, either, though my husband still eats chicken and turkey so I buy it for him.

And it's not so much the eating meat part I object to (though I choose not to). I think humans are omnivorous, and many other animals also eat meat. It's the human gluttony - the absolute over-consumption, and most of all, it's the industry factory-farming that sickens me, here in the US and god-knows-what happens abroad. Animals are sentient, sensitive beings that deserve compassion and happy lives, not to be churned out and slaughtered just for human pleasure (and over indulgence). Not to mention over-fishing, by-catch problems, and all the other issues with seafood.

Humans aren't the only creatures meant to enjoy their short lives on this planet.

If animals were bred in moderation, lived good, happy, humane lives and were slaughtered with absolutely no fear or pain, I might indulge in a steak every once in a while.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Great video! K&R for the Cecil Movement!

Thanks for posting, important effort! And I checked the box that automatically adds the occasional OP I post to my journal - so I can find them again...