The Internet has finally hit its breaking point.
And it’s all due to the following photo:
Yes, this really is a photo of an eight-year old girl eating a raw deer heart.
The image has gone viral and stirred up a crazy amount of controversy after a New Zealand man submitted these images to the Facebook group NZ Woman Hunters.
They depict his daughter’s first kill.
And her subsequent action in response to it.
“Hey you hunter chicks, I’m a proud Dad… check out my little pink ninja princess (8) with her first deer a young stag,” wrote the father as a caption.
He added:
“Shot in a bush block on a friends farm last weekend. She made tricky downhill shot using my shoulder as a leaning rest and shot with dads 7 mm-08 at about 40m.
“Then she took a bite from its warm quivering heart.”
We added the bold above for emphasis.
Because… do we really need to explain why?
As you would imagine, most World Wide Web users’ reactions are summed up by the GIF featured here.
They have included:
And also:
And then there was this:
There have been the scattered hunting enthusiasts who have defended this man and his eight-year old, however.
To wit:
The Facebook page NZ Woman Hunters has since been shut down due to this swirling controversy, although it’s not the first time a debate has broken out over young people celebrating the murder of an animal.
Earlier this month, a 12-year old named Aryanna Gourdin received national attention for the many photos online of her and her prey.
She has traveled all over the world to kill wildlife, saying the takedown of a zebra recently felt like a “dream” come true.
“It’s something I cherish and enjoy and I want other people to see what I experienced,” she said in an interview with Good Morning America.
But critics took issue with pictures such as the ones here.
They referred to the little girl, and her father, who accompanies here on these hunting expeditions, as “sick,” among other insults.
Then there was Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who reached an impressive level of Internet infamy when he killed a lion named Cecil.
That story made national news in October of last year.
In July of 2014, Facebook deleted photos of a college student named Kendall Jones after she filled up her account with snapshots of her and animals she killed in the wild.
Model Joanna Krupa even threatened to shoot the 19-year old Texas Tech student at the time in response to these images:
So, yeah.
Controversy over hunting will never go away. Especially when the hunter is a child.
But killing an animal and then immediately eating its heart? Sorry, it’s “warm quivering heart?” That’s a new one.
Ready to join the debate? Leave a comment below and weigh in on this whole little-girl-eats-a-raw-deer-heart scandal.
Are you for? Against? Or too grossed out right now to even formulate a coherent thought?