Comments on: Poison Takes Toll On Africa's Lions

Kenyan Cattle Herders Are Using The American Pesticide Furadan To Kill The Predators

[Handsomeknight]

Oh, and as per the non-lethal capsules, the ingredients of the capsules would need to be flavored, or odored, so that the lions can associate getting sick with eatting the domestic animal carcass.

[Handsomeknight]

As per the comment about non-lethal capsules injected into domestic animals which make a lion sick if eatten:

Naturally, the domestic animal would have to be clearly tagged so that it is never eatten by humans. At least not until the capsules are located and removed undamaged.

[Handsomeknight]

Could a capsule or capsules of non-lethal "lion poison" be routinely injected into living domestic animals? The capsules would burst upon being bit into by a lion and make the lion sick.

Hopefully, the lion and others in its group would learn, there from, not to attack and eat domestic animals.

If this worked, there could to be programs put in place to facilitate the injections. Laws could be strengthened to stop the use of fatal poisons on lions.

[LibertyTreeBud]

People are being poisoned every hour of every day by chemical residues in their food and water. Processed food will make you unhealthy. Plants are being adulterated genetically by Monsanto and others and they intend for us to eat GMO's forever whether you like it or not. I am sad to see poison used to harm any life on this good earth. I would never do it. I can't say that about the International Corporations and governments that have been poisoning us and our food for many decades. Weep for the wild animals and weep for us, too. We are all on this poison ride to Hell.

[quadrupeds]

Language Matters.

60 minutes, when are you going to stop referring to animals as "it's"?

Animals are gendered individuals, believe it or not, just like us. Referring to an animal as an "it' reveals how very removed from the natural world you people at CBS are. Especially in the case of adult lion where the gender of the animal is very apparent.

As if it weren't painful enough to watch that poor lioness crawling on the ground dying from the horrible poison that had been laid out for her; you had to regrettably refer to this poor animal as an "it" only adding to the disrespect and lack of understanding we humans have for the other creatures in which we share this planet.

In the future,at the very least try to make an effort to refer to animals as "he, she. or they". Just think of how strange (and wrong) it would sound if human beings were referred to as "it's". Do unto others....

[kcusa1]

Thanks for bringing this heart tugging story to our attention. It is frustrating watching this story and not be left with any information on who to contact or what to do to aid in stopping this massacre. What organizatin needs our support to help establish the cow buying programs in neighboring towns?

[dcaves21]

haha...i love how you bring politics into a 60 mins about lions lol

[debralovesgospelmusic]

Once again man has prevailed. Down with the corporations that make pesticides. Down with lions! But I'm afraid as usual, the problems are more complex than : "Another huge industry that employs Americans, and yet again has a ripple effect on the globe and it's inhabitants." Kenya is, in the world economy a poor country. This poison is cheap. These people are trying to survive. It's either them or the lions. American are as usual outraged....but we are not willing to give up our plastic bags when we go shopping. We can judge the Corporations, and the Kenyans, but Americans look at your own indulgent and spoiled lifestyles. God help us all. I think it's too late. So Americans if you want to see a lion , go to the zoo!

[cll2009]

I am horrified at this devastating news over America's involvement in the poisoning of Africa's lions, made even more tragic by some responses posted here. Afluent countries, for all their consumption, DO NOT treat the environment better - they just push their garbage out of sight to the poorer neighbor. We are all culprits of the earth's destruction, but none more so than the American corporation, who in its greed to build stockholder weath, shows no moral standard, and shifts EPA-banned production to nations whose governments don't have the luxury of such regulation.
This is true, not just in Africa with this tragic result, but in South America where pesticides banned in the USA are commonly used.
Perhaps we should pay Brazil to keep the rainforest, and pay the Africans to feed the lions.

[gramto8]

Again, is Obama showing ANY concern for the lions in Kenya, the home of his Father?
Posted by Kansas58 at 11:52 AM : Mar 30, 2009

Since his inauguration he has been a little bit busy trying to undo the damage brought on by the prior administration in our country. Things like reversing all of George Bush's anti-environmental rules. Maybe he hasn't put his two-cents into the fight over the Kenyan lions, but he has had his hands full here doing clean up from eight years of hell.