Readers no doubt reacted with revulsion to the revelation recorded photographically that three ratbags had hunted and killed two griffon vultures in the Republic of Armenia. The location of the crime was not identifiable from the picture that began circulating on social media a few weeks ago.
No one eats vultures. The very idea of eating a bird that regularly feasts on rotten, rancid, carrion is pretty repulsive. Add to that picture the fact that they end up covered in blood, guts, and feces since they access the corpse being eaten from any and all available apertures.
So why hunt these large birds that play an important role in cleaning up dead flesh and thereby preventing the spread of disease?
Don’t get me wrong, I have no issues with hunting. It is one of the most natural things that humans and countless other animals do. But remorseless killing of creatures that are not to be eaten (e.g. the massacre of bison by agents of the United States to eliminate the source of the Indians food), when the killing is done purely for “pleasure”
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