Anti-Hunting crap

[Multidigits]

Letter to the editor at the Chattanoogan...


Don't Kill The Majestic Wild Turkey
posted April 2, 2006<SPAN>

Tennessee’s turkey hunting season is upon us and sadly these majestic birds will once again be killed by those who enjoy making harmless animals suffer and die.

Before the Bald Eagle became known as the symbol of America, the great statesman and revolutionary Benjamin Franklin put his support behind honoring the turkey as the young country’s national bird. Franklin's choice would have been a good one, as the North American wild turkey was here to greet the Pilgrims as they landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620.

But the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has declared war on these birds. Turkeys are not overpopulated in Tennessee; in fact, the TWRA has stocked them in certain counties for no other purpose than to provide hunters with living targets to kill. The birds cause no damage and are not implicated in significant amounts of car accidents. Hunting stocked birds serves absolutely no conservation purpose.

The TWRA is in the business to sell hunting permits, and they will manipulate hunted animal populations by breeding them, tweaking season lengths and bag limits, and killing off their natural predators. The TWRA collects the fees generated by the sale of hunting permits, as well as excise taxes on firearms and ammunition, because the agency needs to raise millions of dollars in revenue just to cover the salaries of its employees. The firearms industry also benefits by the spread of violence against wildlife and the duo of the firearms industry and the TWRA is a foe that the state’s wildlife cannot live with.

The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting proposes wildlife watching programs to draw the public closer to wildlife and provide an economy that can far outpace the one which is currently based on firearms and violence. For information on how you can protect wildlife, please see our website at http://www.all-creatures.org/cash.

Joe Miele, Vice President
The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting
Box 562
New Paltz, NY 12561
jmmiele@optonline.net (jmmiele@optonline.net)

[Dev]

They were here to greet the pilgrims alright. Hell, they were even invited to dinner by the pilgrims. Gotta love those poor, sad, strange little people. On second thought, maybe you don't?!?!

[jarhedhntr]

as the North American wild turkey was here to greet the Pilgrims as they landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620.


:D And they said damn they taste good:D

[Xi Bowhunter]

You hear how ridiculous these people sound?!:mad: It really makes me sick and very angry. I hope I never meet one of these nuts face to face, I don't think I could hold my temper.

[mossyhorns]

Shewt 'em!

[AAAJohn]

Gosh, if the turkey was the national bird, we would be eating eagles. I'll stick to turkeys.

[Gobblergetter2.1]

I'll never understand these people... If it was ok for the pilgrims to HUNT the turkey and EAT the turkey back then, what is so bad about it now? If god didnt want us to hunt, he would have made animals out of meat!

[nontypical2002]

These same people don't have a problem standing in line waiting for that bargain they found in the paper...pork loin on sale...t-bone on sale...or chicken breast on sale...maybe if they'd tour a slaughter house sometime I'll betcha they wouldn't be so apt to be on our ass about being sporstman and doing what their past generation did. There were no supermarkets back then with glass windows to view your choice of meats like there are now. You hunted and you ate what you killed just like we do now. Those hypocrits stand behind their signs waiting for those bargains. About the only difference is they have someone else do their killing for them!!!!!

[naturalelite]

The TWRA collects the fees generated by the sale of hunting permits, as well as excise taxes on firearms and ammunition, because the agency needs to raise millions of dollars in revenue just to cover the salaries of its employees. So how many of these people would be out of jobs if there wasn't hunting???Do they ask themselves how those men and women would feed their children if they didn't have a job? Lets see the millions they raise from hunting licenses, permits, gun sales and ammunition not counting what the economy gets thru hotels,restaurants, fuel, and supplies. Like normal we as hunters are just the worst human beings in the world because we do something that we love and pay greatly just to enjoy the sport we have. I think they are jealous because nothing they do in the pathetic little lives gives them enjoyment so they have to take it out on those of us that do find comfort and enjoyment in something.

[Big Nasty]

I think Nugent put it best: The next time somebody gets on me about hunting, I'm shooting 12 of something! If these people actually used their time and money toward a legitimate cause (feeding the hungry, poverty, crime, anti-drug, etc. etc.) this world might actually be a better place.