NEWS: Madonna in Pheasant Hunting Controversy

CELEB: Madonna in Pheasant Hunting Controversy

Madonna stirred controversy again--not by crucifying herself on stage this time--but instead for for purchasing one thousand French pheasants to be shot on her property during hunting season. Although Madonna gave up pheasant hunting, fellow hunters will pay almost £10,000 a day for the opportunity to hunt on her 1,200 acre English countryside estate.

The singer once experienced some unpleasantness while pheasant hunting, leading to her retirement from the “sport.” While hunting, a bird she shot landed in front of her, bloody and still alive.

That unfortunate experience will not stop her from earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from other hunters.


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Get over the Burberry, Madge. It's so very unbecoming.

Goooooooooo Capitalism!

how stupid can you be, what the hell do you think happens when you shoot some poor bird with an ounce of led pellets.
go cleet shooting if you don't want to see animals die.

yay starbucks....give me madonna in 1990...before the h&m ads...i agree w the guy above me

i hope she gets wrist cancer. the cunt.

Why is that stupid? Normal is more like it. Not until people actually witness the negative effects of their actions do they usually realize what they have been doing and stop.

Whats bizarre here is that she feels that way, yet doesn't care about others making birds "suffer" on her property. I could almost understand her giving it up as being a simple "not for me" kind of thing. But her quote makes it sound like more than that, and you'd have expected her attitude toward hunting birds to have changed more significantly.

Personally I wish we could give animals guns and make hunting fair.

i'd say it's quite stupid if you don't realize the negative effects of explosively launching led pellets into a living creature before one ends up coughing to death in front of you.

People think they can shoot and kill other humans and not be phased..

Pheasants are basically fancified Turkeys. I have no problem with eating them.

Hmm.. further thought leads me to believe that it may be normal and also stupid at the same time. Because a way of thinking is normal doesn't make it not stupid. So many people are just so stupid by nature, I guess it just seems unnecessary to even refer to anyone as stupid anymore.

blech...she drinks Starbucks

I didn't know Starbucks was Kabbalah friendly

I'm sorry... but this is quite possibly the silliest thing I've read all morning.

Really? I thought your prediction of Oilers supremacy over in the Hockey group was waaaayyyy sillier.

On subject though is anyone really shocked or surprised that Madge is a huge hypocrite and moron? Most people are.

+1

Hypocrites and morons that is.

Damn. And I was all geared up for another Dick Cheney shooting.

Really though, nobody bats an eye when somebody stocks a lake full of bass. I personally have more respect for someone who goes out and kills his/her own food than for folks who bitch about how "cruel" hunting is between sucking down bites of a factory-born, bred, and processed meal (do you know where your dinner is coming from?). And perhaps if we were responsible for killing our own food again, we wouldn't feel the need to go on killing each other quite as much.

Pheasant Schmeasant. Is that really a starbucks travel mug? Seriously?

The article says nothing about hunting for food. And even if it where for food, if these are being purchased and brought to her property then they have already been caught and could be put to death in a less barbaric manner, rather shooting them and have them possibly bleed to death on the ground.

And I don't know anything about stocking lakes with bass, but I heard that fish can't feel pain.. so you can hook 'em and throw 'em back and its ok. Does anyone know if thats true?

like, oh my god, whatever.

No, that's not true...
fish feel pain
Of course they do! That's such a silly myth.

I doubt it. War and crazy-people-on-people violence has been around since long before processed foods. Frankly, if The Crusades had been sponsored by Burger King, you would probably have just as much violence (only with crusaders that are in terrible shape, thanks to The King's one-two-punch combo of chicken fries and a Whopper).

I was soooooooooooooooooo hoping this was going to be a story about her shooting someone in the face whilst pheasant hunting...
or better yet her being shot in the face.