4/12/04 Dear Buffalo News: “Amherst man bags elusive Canadian wolf” (4/11/04 presents cowardice as adventure. Like child and spousal abusers, hunters claim to have a “special connection” with their victims. Robert Cimato’s victim had eluded…
4/13/04
Dear New York Times:
According to “Green Thumbs on the Trigger” (4/8/04), “gardeners have had it with deer.” On the contrary, gardeners and the 95 % of New Yorkers who do not hunt have had it with bloody hands on the trigger. State and federal wildlife mismanagement agencies exist solely to promote hunting and to provide recreational opportunities for hunters.
Each dishonest, destructive step in the program – habitat manipulation (replacing native plants with those favored by “game” animals), hunting (which increases population), hunting promotion programs, and destroying forest to provide access roads and other services for hunters – serves this agenda.
As sprawl and human overpopulation force animals onto ever smaller parcels of land, these mismanagers intentionally increase animal populations, manipulating the public into believing that the animals are to blame for, and that more hunting is the solution to, real or perceived wildlife/human conflicts.
Knowing that the public naturally abhors cruelty to animals, the mismanagers demonize the animals, misleadingly call their mismanagement science, and relying on PR maneuvers (such as donating the unhealthy corpses to food banks) to hide the orchestrated suffering.
The article puts a positive spin on deer killing in Princeton. To see the cruel reality of net and bolt killing, watch the videos at
http://www.sharkonline.org/indexrocketnetting.mv
4/19/04 Dear Cape Cod Times: Re: “Residents clash on hunting ban” (4/15/04) and the follow-up article, “Most items approved” (4/16/04), Provincetown has once again refused to ban hunting and trapping in the Cape Cod National…
6/26/2004 Judge Ronald E. Kmiotek sentenced the “deer lady,” Anita Depczynski, to 15 days in jail for the horrific crime of feeding deer. The residents of Cheektowaga are safe now that this menace has been…
Letter to the Editor re Goose Slaughter in Downingtown letters@phillynews.com 3 July 2004 I’ve had the dubious “privilege” of attending what are called “Atlantic Flyway” conferences, and on occasion “Joint Conferences of the Atlantic and…
Letter to the Editor 11 July 2004 Considering that Fred Schwartz, better known as “Fred the Furrier,” is a Holocaust survivor, I’m surprised that he didn’t question where the fur pelts came from. The lampshades…
“Dad Kills 14 year old.” Reminds me of when I was stationed on a Radar Site in North Idaho back in the early 1960’s. A group of my fellow airmen held a meeting prior to…
Mr. Clune is a hunter who supports hunting. Anne Muller is not a hunter and envisions a wildlife management agency and policies that are not supported by the firearms industry. That Mr. Clune kills animals…
We’ve been closely following the corruption scandal that has been plaguing the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF). Exposed by insiders, we discover that the betrayal of public trust and misuse of public…
Dear Mr. Grant: Thank you for contacting C.A.S.H. to tell us your thoughts on hunting. Rather than sending you a form letter, I wanted to personally reply because we do not always get well-reasoned criticism…
