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We know, one might think that Talley had learned her lesson given the amount of people who protested the fact she had travelled to Africa to kill a creature as majestic as a giraffe. Alas, she remains blinded by the illusion that it’s her right to kill animals, defending her actions by claiming they were done in the interests of “conservation”.
During her appearance on CBS This Morning, Talley was presented with the photo that proved so divisive two years ago – the one that sees her posing with a giraffe’s corpse. When pressed to explain herself, she said: “I see it as a hobby, I see it as something that I love to do. It’s conservation, and this hunt in particular is a conservation hunt.
“We are preserving the wildlife. So what we do is, we are managing herds. We are managing numbers of wildlife.
“We’re hunters, and we’re proud to be hunters. I am proud to hunt and I am proud of that giraffe.”
CBS This Morning
Viewers were quick to spot and condemn, however, the fact that Talley appeared to have a wide grin on her face as she debated the issue. Some were vocal in their doubt that she genuinely considers what she does to simply be aiding conservation efforts, whilst others went so far as to brand her “disgusting”, and “clearly a privileged, wealthy, selfish human.”
White american savage who is partly a neanderthal comes to Africa and shoot down a very rare black giraffe coutrsey of South Africa stupidity. Her name is Tess Thompson Talley. Please share pic.twitter.com/hSK93DOOaz
— AfricaDigest (@africlandpost) June 16, 2018
Later in the interview, Talley was asked to give her thoughts on any feelings of ‘remorse’ she might experience when in the process of hunting the animals she shoots.
To that, she said: “Everybody thinks that the easiest part is pulling the trigger, and it’s not. That’s the hardest part.
“But you gain so much respect, and so much appreciation for the animal because you know what the animal is going through. They are put here for us. You know, we harvest them, we eat them.
“I would rather do something I love to do rather than just give a lump sum of cash somewhere and not know particularly where that is going.”
I wasn’t a fan of Talley’s attitude towards hunting two years ago, and I’m not a fan of it now!
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