Rep. Hunter's brilliant idea.

From Think Progress

Rep. Duncan Hunter's (R-CA) staff recently contacted the U.S. embassy in Chad to see whether he could visit the country and distribute food at a refugee camp. He said he wanted to hunt wildebeest and then distribute the meat to the refugees. The embassy, however, wasn't too happy with this idea - especially because there are no wildebeest in Chad: 

• [The Embassy welcomes] Congressman Hunter's interest in food assistance to Darfur refugees in Chad. Given the significant quantities of U.S. food aid programmed for distribution to these refugees through the World Food Program (WFP), Embassy Ndjamena would encourage the Congressman to time his visit to coincide with an already scheduled food distribution. Embassy Ndjamena can make the necessary arrangements for the Congressman to observe a WFP food distribution, which will include U.S. food aid, in one of the refugee camps.

Nope! Not as fun.   

In light of this, Duncan Hunter would very much like to go hunt wildebeest in Kenya and then donate their dead bodies to refugee camps in Chad.

Why hunting? Is orphaning a baby wildebeest truly an answer to global hunger? This ridiculous argument is only made more amusing because of the seriousness with which Mr. Hunter espouses it.   

The fact that wildebeest aren't native to Chad merely makes Mr. Hunter sound stupid, but I digress.

Oh yes, it appears that wildebeest are currently more endangered than usual. Due to political unrest in Kenya, 

"[The wildebeest] annual migration is under threat from poachers. "When the animals come into Kenya there is this big influx of poachers," says Brian Heath, CEO of the Mara Conservancy that manages animal protection in the border regions of the park. "Unless we control it we are in danger of the number of animals being poached not being able to sustain the population."

I ask Mr. Hunter this, why do you hate wildebeest so much that you want them to go extinct? What did they ever do to you? I know its fun to kill - power make's me excited down there too. (Oops!)    

Here's a better idea:

"[Mr. Hunter] could be really useful by advocating in Congress policies that provide meaningful economic development support and trade incentives to Kenyans and other Africans, and policies that provide more financial support to refugees and increase options for refugee resettlement."

Of course we could make sensible use of current feed staples such as corn or soy. Imagine the excess plant protein and calories that would be made available to the world community if that 15 pounds of feed being funneled through a hog to produce a single edible pound of flesh as I write this was instead distributed to three, four, five starving individual men, women and children. By aggregating this gluttonous excess and waste, the possibilities are endless.

But the idea being suggested by a Representative of the United States of America is let's round-up a few carcasses.