http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNTVmUnfd3g

I dunno about you, but I was rooting for the lion.

I've got mixed feelings about hunting. I'm not too big on hunting animals with guns from afar (especially when you're in a group of like 5 people with High Caliber Rifles, shooting at a lone lion that's cornered "in the wild" by a man-made fence.) A big part of me thinks that if you're going to hunt something, you should stand the risk of being killed, yourself.
For that reason, I do respect the way the hunter in the video stood his ground as the lion charged.

On the other hand, as an omnivore, most of what I eat has been killed for the sole purpose of feeding people like me. So yeah, if you're going to eat it, I guess it makes it much less barbaric. We haven't evolved, as a species, into strict vegitarians, so one has to accept the concept of using adapted tactics to sustain one's own life, at the expense of other species. I've gone hunting, as a kid, and enjoyed it, and always ate what we killed, and I'll probably do it again, someday. But a part of me will always have a distaste for taking down an animal that had absolutely no chance against me.

"Just because people like hamburgers doesn't mean they want to meet the cow." ~ Steve Buschemi in The Island.

But hunting for trophies is just not something that I'm cool with, really.