BY RANDY HYNES
Until July 2015, few had ever heard of Cecil the lion, but after photos of the deceased lion were picked up by mainstream media and animal-welfare extremists, an uproar commenced.
Fanning the flames of disinformation were organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) who went so far as to claim this incident was, “…a vivid example of the subculture of international, competitive trophy hunting, where wealthy elites pay off guides or local wildlife officials and bend and break rules in their quest to kill the biggest, oft en rarest animals in order to get into the record books.”