“Craig” Thinks Us Hunters Have “Driven Hundreds of Animals to Extinction”
Well Craig I’m glad you stopped by my little piece of the blogging world even though you are very misguided. I did take your challenge,
Type “extinct animals in the 21st century” into your search engine and read the horrors of hunting that even in this modern age hunters are STILL driving hundreds of species to extinction.
Surprise Surprise not much came up in the search. According to Wikipedia three species have gone extinct in the 21st century;
21st century
• 2000 — The last Pyrenean Ibex dies under a fallen tree. The reasons for its extinction are still being debated.
• 2006 — China’s freshwater river dolphin, the baiji, declared “functionally extinct”[3] after a survey failed to find a single animal.
— West African Black Rhino (a subspecies of the Black Rhino). The World Conservation Union has declared the subspecies to be tentatively extinct [4]; the last population was in Cameroon.
None of them cite hunting specifically as the cause although poaching may be partially responsible in two and the dolphin may have been put in jeopardy by hunting but other factors are responsible for the dolphin going extinct.
As a group I find hunters to be a very conservative group often working to help not only species we love to hunt but helping a lot of other non game species. Hunting is part of our culture and our history and connects us with our past. Many of us like the opportunity to provide wholesome organic meat for our table rather then depending on companies to grow and kill animals for us to eat. Life cannot be sustained without other living organisms being killed be it vegetable or meat.
Your unethical hunting methods such as bow hunting and snaring are an abomination.
Most of you have a shoot to injure policy and not a shoot to kill policy! Well it is the preferred method of trailer trash!
Unsure where you would get the idea that any hunter would desire to injury a game animal instead of humanly killing it out right. I certainly do not advocate the injuring of animals nor am I aware of any major hunting organization or leader within the shooting sports that would advocate such behavior. Most of us practice especially bow hunters to improve our accuracy so that we can kill the game animal quickly. Snaring in North Carolina is only a legal trapping method for beavers in a water set and obviously that would be a very quick death for the furbearer. Beavers and the other forbears are a renewable resource that should be utilized for the beautiful warm fur they give us.
If anything is unethical it has to be your attack on young people who enjoy hunting and spending time with their families. Hunting is a legal wholesome activity that teaches many valuable lessons to our young people. I can’t help but notice how screwed up our young people are that engage in many of the activities or culture of the “enlightened” liberals amongst us suggest to help them in their development. They insist that there is no longer any absolutes in this world, whatever you think is right is right for you, competition is no longer important so we no longer keep score in sporting events, everyone makes the team and plays an equal amount of time, Society should have more of a say in the up bring of kids instead of their parents and I could go on.
In my opinion and observation kids that hunt and fish with their families are more well rounded and have a better understanding of how precious life really is. You want to call names and attack someone direct it at me not the kids.
As most of the wacko’s from the animal rights movement you have lied and drastically overstated what is the truth on this topic, hunters have not driven hundreds of animals into extinction.
Hope you keep stopping by just please back off the kids.
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Good luck with this one, Moose. Odds are slim you’ll be seeing “Craig” around again, although it would be interesting to follow his Internet footprints to see if he is just another troll or if he’s actually affiliated somewhere.
His is the type of response that would likely find its way into my deleted file, since there’s obviously no interest in learning or debate…only in calling names and flinging crap.
But who knows… I look forward to seeing if this goes further.
Comment by Phillip — January 30, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
Moose,
Great reply. Once again it proves that we are fighting an uphill battle against a bunch of un-educated, uninformed, self riotous folks that only believe what the hear on CNN or read in a PETA pamphlet. I know that you will probably never change this persons mind, but by backing up your reply with facts and logic, hopefully you may reach someone else that maybe sitting on the fence. Keep up the good work.
Comment by Frank — January 30, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
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Thought this was an excellent post and that you handled it very well considering he didn’t really present any facts and automatically resorted to name calling. I would be suprised if you ever hear from him again.
I have to go, something is wrong with my trailer. :):):):):)
Comment by Arthur — January 30, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
Dammit Moose,
How do you do it?
None of the crazies ever leave me comments.
I’m jealous.
Comment by Rex — January 31, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
I’m shocked. I’m going to demand my money back from the outfitter who took me on that Pyrenean Ibex hunt last year!
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