jpinMilwaukee wrote:Favorite bumper sticker: If God didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?
But seriously it would be ashame to not protect endangered animals. Look what happened when we killed off the wolf... the deer population ballooned. Now they are every where. We have special off-season hunts here in Wisconsin to try to kill off some of the heard just to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease.
Wolves are indescriminate killers and our forbears killed them out of the south 48 for real reasons. Moreover, the wolves which the lunatic leftists have been reintroducing are not the normal wolves which used to live there, but rather the much larger and more dangerous canadian and alaskan wolves, which are in no danger of extinction in their own northern habitats.
These creatures repeatedly drive populations of prey animals (deer, elk, moose etc) to the point of collapse at which their own numbers collapse also in a yo-yo boom/bust cycle and the prey species lose genetic diversity at the low eb of each cycle since they are having to rebuild populations from a handful of animals each time. In other words, the genetic health and survivability of our own deer and elk herds are being endangered by this lunatic policy. These herds had been well managed for decades prior to the reintroduction of wolves.
That's aside from damage they cause to humans and livestock of course. You need to read some of the horror stories to believe the grief people are being put through by these leftists. An example:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073500/posts
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The Wolf Trap
American Hunter Magazine (NRA - National Rifle Association member publication ^ | January 2004 | By Chuck Adams
Posted on 02/07/2004 10:59:48 AM PST by Delphinium
By Chuck Adams
American Hunter Magazine (NRA - National Rifle Association member publication)
Montana resident Geri Ball stood with her fists on her hips and a knot in the pit of her stomach. At her feet were the remains of her prize female llama, entrails and unborn baby scattered across the animal's pen. This 850-pound pregnant pet had been eaten alive by wolves from northwestern Montana's Nine-Mile Pack. The mother llama's screams of pain and fear had sliced through the night
but too late to save the mortally wounded animal.
Hunting outfitter Bill Hoppe glassed a sweeping vista just north of Yellowstone National Park, his expert eyes searching for elk that have traditionally thrived in Montana Hunting Districts 313 and 317. The only tracks in the fresh snow were those of gray wolves. Hoppe also had a knot in his gut. Nonresident hunting clients were due to arrive tomorrow, and there were no elk to be found.
On the Little North Fork of Idaho's Clearwater River, Bror Borjesson watched helplessly in his flashlight beam as members of the Marble Mountain wolf pack attacked four horses in his hunting camp at 1:30 a.m. Sheena, his pregnant Appaloosa mare, panicked and flipped on the tether rope securely knotted to his horse trailer. Her spine snapped with a sickening crunch.
Bullet, a three-year-old gelding, broke his tether rope and galloped away with Syringa, another pregnant mare. The wolves were close behind, slashing at the horses' heels. The man never saw his prize pair again, and Sheena had to be put down.
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A cowboy on the Diamond G Cattle Ranch in Wyoming's Dunoir Valley climbed off his horse and crouched beside a mutilated beef calf. Big, doglike tracks littered the area around the carcass. The young animal's entrails were scattered, the anus ripped out, the hips partly gnawed away. It was a classic wolf kill.
All of these incidents and hundreds more like them have occurred in the West's Tri-State area during the past two years alone. Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are under siege by terrorists
and these terrorists are not from the Middle East. Instead, they were deliberately introduced to central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and 1996 with the blessing of the Clinton Administration.....
