Bob Parsons, Founder CEO GoDaddy.com, the Arizona-based web-hosting service posted the video on 14th last month which shows him hunting an elephant in Zimbabwe on a farm and posing with a shotgun beside its corpse. Later on it shows locals crowding around the dead animal and cutting off pieces of its meat.
This video has raised numerous fingers against him with critics calling this extreme. Parsons defends this by saying that he killed the elephant for the good of local farmers as their crops are often destroyed by elephants. Following the critics against him, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA) initiated an online boycott of GoDaddy.com and its services until Parsons "stops shooting animals," according to the organization's website. PETA has rejected his explanations and boycotted GoDaddy services.
Parsons admits that he has killed five elephants in Zimbabwe villages so far but it was not for fun. He has visited Zimbabwe since long but he started hunting elephants only the last year at the request of local farmers. A lot of animal-lovers are disappointed with this activity of CEO and even his own website is full of critics.
But the question is, if Bob Parsons really wanted to help African villagers, he would use his money to promote one of the many effective, nonlethal methods available to protect crops not act like a little boy with a gun.
This video has raised numerous fingers against him with critics calling this extreme. Parsons defends this by saying that he killed the elephant for the good of local farmers as their crops are often destroyed by elephants. Following the critics against him, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA) initiated an online boycott of GoDaddy.com and its services until Parsons "stops shooting animals," according to the organization's website. PETA has rejected his explanations and boycotted GoDaddy services.
Parsons admits that he has killed five elephants in Zimbabwe villages so far but it was not for fun. He has visited Zimbabwe since long but he started hunting elephants only the last year at the request of local farmers. A lot of animal-lovers are disappointed with this activity of CEO and even his own website is full of critics.
But the question is, if Bob Parsons really wanted to help African villagers, he would use his money to promote one of the many effective, nonlethal methods available to protect crops not act like a little boy with a gun.
No comments:
Post a Comment