The founder of the Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich chain killed an elephant and a leopard for sport and some trophy photos. That may not have anything to do with the quality of the chain’s food, but it does indicate the quality of the man behind the sandwiches.
So these are two reasons to eat elsewhere: one dead African elephant and one dead Delta leopard, hunted down and killed by Jimmy John Liautaud for sport and some trophy photos.
The fine print under the photo above says “Jimmy John Liautaud with 79lbs tusker”.
The fine print under the photo below says “Jimmy John Liataud with Delta leopard”.
Jimmy John, Big Game Hunter
Congratulations, Jimmy John. I’m sure all your franchise owners are happy to know how you spend the profits they earn for you.
Maybe customers will think twice about helping you make more money so you can pose with a big grin alongside the big game you shot and killed for fun.
These photos are dated 2010, as is this article on the website Smile Politely.
Maybe Jimmy John has changed his ways since. That would be good news for those of us who want to save the elephants, leopards and other endangered species, in Africa, India and wherever else they are hunted for sport.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a meat eater, and I love fish, too, so I’m not opposed to killing an animal for food. But paying thousands of dollars for a safari to kill beautiful – even endangered – animals so you can have your photo taken with the dead body? Um – no.
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Let’s also give a thumbs down to Johan Calitz Safaris, and the nations of Bostwana, Mozambique and Tanzania which allow these sport hunting safaris at the same time they are supposedly trying to save endangered big game from poachers.
Check out the Johan Calitz Safaris website, with photos of other big game hunters in addition to Jimmy John Liautaud posing alongside their kills – mostly elephants, but also Cape buffalo and a leopard.
It’s enough to make you upchuck your gourmet sandwich.
Consumers boycott unethical businesses
Here’s more food for thought (pun intended) – an article in the Chicago Tribune about consumer boycotts of businesses like Jimmy John’s whose business or personal ethics we just don’t like.
What are your thoughts? Add a comment below.
We are working hard to save the rainforests and other natural environments, not to mention various ecosystems in order to preserve “our” ecosystem/quality of life. Don’t they realize that without preserving the lives of endangered species, our whole ecosystem will change and possibly erode due to the extinction of important animals that greatly contribute to the current cycle of life that sustains all the ecosystems, including ours?
You couldn’t give me his sandwiches free for a lifetime!!!!!
It is really to bad so many compassionate people don’t think beyond the photo. I have been to Africa and with the people who benefit from this sport. First, the game animals are managed much in the same way our own states manage game here in the US. The money these African hunters pay goes to help feed the starving people. Much of the meat from these hunts is eaten by the locals. The money helps to protect these beautiful animals from poachers and extinction.
Yes, agreed that strictly controlled hunting for “farmed” animals benefits the local economy in all the ways you mention. But that is for non-endangered animals such as eland, oryx and other abundant species. Endangered species are a whole different animal (pardon the pun).
It is beyond disgraceful to kill endangered elephants and leopards for sport – like beautiful “tusker” and the leopard shot by Jimmy John for fun and bragging rights.
Do you really favor sport hunting of endangered species?
What an oxymoron!! By paying money to kill endangered animals, they are somehow protecting them from extinction?? It’s just an excuse used by cold, heartless “animals” to justify the slaughter of our most precious endangered animals. I don’t think God ever intended for His creations to be hunted and slaughtered for sport. Seriously!! Maybe their meat is eaten by the people there, but more often than not the people who kill them don’t care what happens to the meat that comes from their annihilation, they only want their stupid trophy. The money they pay to hunt these animals could instead be donated to the organizations that also help these people without the sacrifice of the worlds majestic creatures.
This is absolutely horrifying!