Australian MP, Robert Borsak shot and ate an elephant in Africa
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The NSW Shooters and Fishers MP Robert Borsak has boasted he shot and ate an elephant in Africa during a hunting trip.
During a late night speech in which he rallied against extremist animal rights groups, he said these groups had too much influence over public policy.
“Animals do not have intrinsic human rights … Humans have been hunters and gatherers for the better part of our existence. Our bodies, minds and civilisations have developed and benefited from hunting, gathering and eating meat.
“Humans have a right to eat meat if they choose to do so. It is as simple as that.
“I choose to hunt and gather my own meat because it is my right to do so. It is a clean, organic, and sustainable way to live. I choose to cull feral and invasive animals because culling protects our native species and habitats, and I consider myself a responsible and ethical hunter and fisher.”
He answered an interjection by Green MP Jeremy Buckingham about a hunting trip to Africa he made about 10 years ago, in which he shot an elephant.
Mr Buckingham asked: “Did you eat the elephant?”
Mr Borsak replied that he had.
Asked about the exchange today, Mr Borsak said he should have replied: “Yes I did, but not in one sitting.”
He shot the elephant on a trip to Africa where they were in plague proportions and that the “culling of rogue, crop-raiding African elephants” was done under carefully managed programs.
He said that when an elephant was shot, it belonged to the local indigenous people, who quickly stripped the carcass of meat.
“Only in the first world do we waste meat,” he said, adding that kangaroos which were shot under pest management programs were not allowed to be used for their meat.
Elephant meat was often turned into Biltong, a dried meat, he said.
He had eaten fresh elephant meat, with some of the cuts being tasty. But he added: “There are a lot of cuts of elephant meat I wouldn’t want to eat.”
He told parliament shooters prided themselves on their accuracy: “One shot, one kill” to avoid animals suffering needlessly.
Mr Borsak attacked the policy of the Animal Justice Party, which has one MP in the Upper House, Mark Pearson.
Mr Borsak claimed the policy was a “delusional nirvana”.
He said: “Farmers love and care for their stock, and eating meat is healthy for humans”
As he was reading out the Animal Justice Party’s policy that a plant-based diet is best for human health, the Liberal Party’s MP Dr Peter Phelps interjected: “What about bacon?”
Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham said: “It’s sick to shoot and kill an elephant for thrills, and it’s revolting that Mr Borsak would eat the elephant. He’s unfit for office.”
