" FOR THESE AND OTHER COMPELLING REASONS, SPORT HUNTING AND ITS OFFICIAL DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF WILDLIFE ECOLOGY CAN BE JUSTLY *OCCUPIED* BY MEMBERS OF THE 95% MAJORITY, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF AN OCCUPATION BEING THE LIBERATION OF WILDLIFE AND WILD LANDS FROM THE MALEVOLENT ECONOMY OF HUNTING,
FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE.
THE TOP TEN REASONS
10. Environmental concern -
Hunting-oriented "game management" is highly destructive to the natural
Environment. Outdated and obsolete wildlife conservation strategies based on pre-ecological thought and faulty science, most conceived over 100 years ago, are still commonly practiced by state and federal game agencies. Bolstered by influential
sport hunting groups such as "Ducks Unlimited", hunter-controlled game agencies manipulate ecosystems and wildlife habitat for increased hunter satisfaction and success. Employing ecologically harmful practices such as burning, logging, bulldozing, and select planting of popular game food plants, game managers necessarily degrade biological diversity and destroy individual non-game animals and their species.
In a world where people are desperately trying to understand and heal an increasingly endangered global biosphere, disruptive alterations of the environment, intended only to stimulate ever greater populations of target animals such as deer, is not only bad science, but plain stupidity.
9. Biological degradation -
Employing biologically perverse methods of manipulating deer
populations, skewing natural sex ratios of deer (killing mostly
bucks) to propagate larger fawn "crops", and genetic breeding to grow
larger antlered trophy bucks, degrades genetic integrity of hunted
species. Hunting has left smaller and weaker individuals to reproduce
and carry on species' vitality, ie., growing numbers of "spike"
bucks.
Hunting works against the laws of nature and contrary to
natural selection by constantly removing prime individuals from a
species population. Modern hunting has been called "Evolution in
Reverse."
8. Hunting is cruel -
Sport hunting causes immense suffering to individual wild animals and
their species. It is gratuitously cruel because unlike natural
predation hunters kill for pleasure and other sadistic "kicks." There
is no justification for its existence in a civilized world.
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