[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

There's a difference between killing an animal specifically for food and killing an animal because you like to kill things and then giving the meat away afterwards instead of just dumping it. In other words her motivation for killing that beautiful, rare, majestic animal wasn't food. I don't know how much a trip like that from the US costs but I'm betting however much it was would have fed these starving villages for a hell of a lot longer than the giraffes meat..........

It sounds like she's suggesting that villages in Africa are in such need of food, and so unable to function for themselves, that they need a rich, pompous, ridiculous American to come and shoot a giraffe for them.

In an ideal world I'd send her out into the bush with a spear. Anything she kills, she can keep.