Jimmy John's founder and CEO Jimmy John Liautaud is under fire after photos of him allegedly posing with dead elephants, a rhinoceros, and a leopard appeared on the internet.
The photographs, allegedly taken during a 2010 safari in Africa, have sparked calls for a boycott of the sandwich chain. This isn't the first time the photographs allegedly showing Liautaud and his "trophy kills" have surfaced publicly. Animal-rights activists have been circulating them online for years, according to the Chicago Tribune.A magazine called The Hunting Report, which records big-game hunting expeditions, has several records of hunts by a "Jimmy John Liautaud," including some led by Johan Calitz Safaris.According to the records, a "Jimmy John Liautaud" has hunted for elephant, zebra, leopard, lynx, rhinoceros, and other animals.