July 18, 2001

                     Group wants media to ignore
                     hunting

                     By Gene Mueller
                     THE WASHINGTON TIMES


                          The animal rights group Fund for Animals has sent an
                     open letter to the editors of more than 2,000 newspapers that
                     asks them not to publish any outdoors columns that would
                     promote hunting or trapping.
                          The FFA, founded in 1967 by
                     author, television critic and
                     vociferous anti-hunting proponent
                     Cleveland Amory, has been
                     relatively quiet in recent years
                     compared to its bigger cousin, the
                     People for the Ethical Treatment of
                     Animals (PETA). But by taking a
                     shot at newspaper editors, it is
                     possible it hopes to regain some of
                     the publicity (read fund-raising
                     ability) it has lost.
                          The FFA also sent a similar
                     request to the heads of ESPN and
                     Comcast, asking them to stop broadcasting hunting shows. It
                     only will be a matter of time before recreational fishing also
                     becomes the target of the animal rights group. PETA already
                     is hard at work sending anti-fishing messages across the land.
                          The FFA apparently is getting support from Marv Levy,
                     the former coach of the NFL's Buffalo Bills. Levy for some
                     reason has turned against hunting as a viable recreational
                     activity. "I don't consider hunting a sport; I consider it
                     murder," he says. Fund for Animals program coordinator
                     Norm Phelps is more than happy to use Levy's anti-hunting
                     stance in a national campaign that hopes to see hunting
                     eventually outlawed across the continent.
                          Heidi Prescott, the national director of FFA, suggests that
                     sport hunting is on the wane in the United States. "America's
                     values are changing," she says. "Today, only a tiny fraction of
                     Americans hunt. We're maturing as a society, and the Fund
                     for Animals is calling on America's sports media to reflect that
                     change."




http://www.washtimes.com/sports/default-2001718235036.htm

Do these idiots realize how much cash we put toward wildlife conservation every year with the excise taxes on ammo and guns? or deer and duck stamps? I don't know either, but I'm wanting to say the last Budweiser Outdoors pamphlet I read said something like $40 million just from the ammo and gun taxes alone. How much are they willing to pony up?

I have a dream.... that one day there will be so many deer, it will be impossible to drive down the road without hitting one.


I have a dream.... That that there will be so many coyotes that your domestic animals will not be safe.

I have a dream.... that someday a man will have to sit in front of a jury, trying to prove that he killed the bear in self defense.  

as a hunter and nature/animal lover, i live in that grey area that fools like them refuse to accept. i hunt to uphold tradition, to sharpen my skills as a woodsman, and sometimes to feast on nature's bounty the way God intended. i know that my license/stamp and gun/ammo $$'s go to protect habitat, and i feel good about helping out.

my question to PETA et al. is this: what do we do when hunting is outlawed and the Jersey soccer-moms want deer control because their precious, non-indiginous and quite gawdy flower gardens get eaten??? the hypocracy is made plain when the SM's give donations to PETA, then demand animal control.

what's next, fishing?
where do these so-called animal lovers think burgers come from? is there more honor in being 100% DEPENDENT on the "system" or in being self-sufficient?

In NJ we have a ban on steel leg hold traps. Just owning one is a crime. So now as a result of not being able to trap we have a huge Deer Tick problem,aka Lyme Disease. Nice trade off don't you think?

I quess we will have to outlaw all meat. While we're at it we should make it illegal for a wild animal to kill another. It is too violent. What if a child were to see?  [:O]


These people are ridiculous.
What a bunch of pu$$ies.

I should have added that I'm pissed about Marv Levy backing these dipshits. I love football and it sucks to have to start hating someone I HAD a lot of respect for, but I have to pick my battles. RKBA and hunting rights are way more important than pigskin.

Has there ever been a species hunted to extinction? I'm genuinly curious about this, I know we went after wolves and damn near got rid of all of em. Other than that I can't think of anything.

guys, i'm gonna get fired if i keep busting out in hysterical laughter! please warn me of future humor, so i can avoid reading these evil posts!!!  [:D]

101-proof, you've never heard of the buffalo, wild turkey, elk,and in some cases, white tailed deer? Many species were locally extirpated as the country was settled. We used to have elk in the Northeast, buffalo as far east as Kentucky, if not further. Pennslyvania reintroduced elk, and they are now doing well-to the point that a limited elk season will occur this fall. The passenger pigeon, I believe, was hunted to extinction. The buffalo, nearly so. Market hunting really put a hurting on many waterfowl species around the turn of the last century. Some states even halted hunting for white tails in the early 1900's as hunting seasons and bag limits were established.

Basicly, with sound, scientifically based wildlife management, we have many success stories. In many cases, the good ol days are probably now for deer and turkey. Species which require a lot of elbow room will never flourish as they once did. Hunter dollars have accounted for much of the habitat improvement that everyone enjoys. Yeah, I wonder how many wood duck boxes bunnyhuggers have put out near beaver swamps...

As for me, it's time to start getting the ol' archery form back into hunting shape.

I exist.
Therefore I hunt.
[sniper]

Another reason to be an NRA member: they lobby hard for hunter's rights as well as the 2nd.

If animals are not killed then, animals will multiply like crazy and then we will have a big problem.

I would have loved to see all of those buffalo herds.
That would have been an awesome sight.

Hell, in VA we just napalm them.

I'm a member of PETA. [size=4]P[/size=4]eople for the [size=4]E[/size=4]ating[/size=4] of [size=4]T[/size=4]astey [size=4]A[/size=4]nimals[/size=4].   [:D]

I have a fund for animals.  When it gets big enough I take it and buy steak.

Species go extinct every day.  For lots of reasons.  So, some day, will we...it's just that the reasons are much more obvious.