ACTION ALERT: Ban Hunting

I would like to share with everyone a Post I came across that totally fits how we feel about this issue!   Dawn

Words from a Native American

As a Native American I want to say something, and this is my observation. My people hunt, and when we do so we do it for food only. We take no pleasure in taking life, we respect the animal. So I don't hate hunting. I hate it when Westerners hunt.
Because every photograph I see on this page does not show respect for the animal. It shows a typical American posing and grinning over the dead. That is not respect. Respect is not photographing a corpse, or taking pleasure from death.
Anyone on this page who claims to hunt because they care for nature is a liar.Those who care for nature would not be proud, happy, or pleased with taking a life. They would be sorrowful.They would also not hunt animals that clearly provide no nourishment, such as elephants, and they would certainly not hunt a fellow predator such as a wolf or jaguar. If we hunt, we hunt prey, and we do so only for food.
To do anything else is to violate the natural order, and proves yourself to be a barbarian.

I would also like to put to rest this lie about hunters kill to control over-breeding. This is a myth.
For millions of years nature has kept in balance, if a species dies it dies because of natural selection. To believe that you can arbitrarily decide what species is growing too large, and what species is not, and then hunt based on this observation, is imbuing humans with the power that only a god should have. We should not choose the fate of the animal, we are not the gods, and we are not nature.If an animal is growing too large and over-hunting, then that is supposed to happen and part of nature. For millions of years this is how species have lived and died.
Stop trying to pretend that humans are a magical creature who can dictate fate to all who live on this planet. I suggest you study natural selection and the way animals evolve.

Mez Kitsu

Hunting and all the insidious aspects of it must end now!

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Via Living with Wolves

This was Maggie. Your tax dollars and ours paid for the trap and the government trapper that killed her. Her story is all to common. She is one of (at the very least) hundreds of pets killed in this way in the past 10 years. Fox News is the latest to expose the truth behind the federal agency, "Wildlife Services." The images and this article will, while upsetting, will continue to inform people of this agency that has managed to fly under the radar for so long. Please share this information and help get the word out.

From the article:

"Maggie's death at a minimum was one of hundreds of accidental killings of pets over the last decade acknowledged by Wildlife Services, a little-known branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that is tasked with destroying animals seen as threats to people, agriculture and the environment. 

Critics, including a source within the USDA, told FoxNews.com that the government's taxpayer-funded Predator Control program and its killing methods are random -- and at times, illegal.

Over the years, Wildlife Services has killed thousands of non-target animals in several states – from pet dogs to protected species – caught in body-gripping conibear traps and leg hold snares, or poisoned by lethal M-44 devices that explode sodium cyanide capsules when triggered by a wild animal – or the snout of a curious family pet."

Thank you to Camilla Fox of Project Coyote and to Fox News and everyone else who is working to inform the public about the truth behind Wildlife Services.

Read more: 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/13/hundreds-family-pets-endangered-species-killed-by-little-known-federal-agency/

Animal torture, abuse called a 'regular practice' within federal wildlife agenc

It was a productive day for Gary Strader when he pulled his vehicle up to a remote site in northeast Nevada and found nine coyotes caught in leg hold snares set by the federal government. As was routine, Strader, a former trapper with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, signaled his dogs to attack.

His supervisor, who had accompanied him that day, watched and laughed as the dogs circled the coyotes and ripped into them, Strader recalled.