> I will not reveal my name, but what
I think what you are doing to these
> poor helpless animals is WRONG!!!
Because I think every animal should be
> treated like a human being. What
if animals hunted humans, what would you
> think about that? kmoody@world-net.net
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I'm glad you wrote me, I've received
several emails from people not happy with
the way I
live (because I hunt). I respect your decision not to take part in your
duty as a human being
to this world, others have taken your share of the
burden from you.
As a God fearing, nature loving person
I have a duty to protect all things that
walk. The best
way to insure that populations are not stressed to starvation and
animals die miserable
deaths is to hunt. I do feel sad when I take an animal’s
life, but I also feel an overwhelming
sense of respect for the animal and pride
in myself for taking such a
wonderful animal. A person who never hunts
cannot
understand or appreciate the love
and respect a sportsman has for nature.
I
spend 365 days a year outside, and
venture into the woods at
least once a day.
Do you? I feed wildlife when woods
and fields get dry and food
is sparse. Do you?
I harvest it to control the population
when wild creatures begin
to thrive too well.
And I eat or use everything I harvest.
We as humans, you and I, have done
something terrible to the environment,
we've encroached
on the wilds of this world, removed the trees, built our houses,
driven our cars. We
buy our food from huge commercial grocers who in turn buy
it from huge commercial
farms that have stripped the land for
farming and put
pesticides into our mother earth.
I contend that the deaths
you cause by living
here on earth are many more than the
deaths I cause with a well
placed shot.
You see, it's the human race’s encroachment
into the wilds of this country that
killed out the
grizzly in the lower 48, ran cougars from their homes forcing them
to choose for food humans
and domestic animals, and forced wolves to the
farthest reaches of the lower 48.
We as a human race have destroyed all
but one
predator and that predator is humankind
itself. Fortunately for the non-hunting
among us our survival as a race is
no longer dependent upon
our ability to hunt
and gather. You see we are the first
animals to come into the
world and not have
to live out-of-doors. We can reason,
understand, and build. We
can think, build
rockets and travel to the moon and
beyond. Nature made us king, it allowed
us
the brains to invent weapons, build
cars, wreck rain forests. It's a shame Nature
didn't give most of us the ability
to care about what those choices really mean.
I ask you this as a non-hunter, what
have you done in the last year to improve the
plight of ducks
because of loss of breeding grounds, and control the overabundance
and starvation of
deer in urban areas? How many parks and preserves have your
sales tax dollars funded? Everytime
I go to the store and buy ammo or fishing lures
or any of a number of products for
outdoor use I benefit wildlife. What do you do?
When was the last time PETA or ALF
or any of the other animal
rights groups did
anything but help a bunch of animals
starve? Their heart is in
the right place, it's
just behind the wrong cause, there
is no greater lover of nature and helper
of all
things wild than a sportsman.
As to your question about animals
hunting me, it happens every time I step in the
woods I take
the chance of a snakebite, being charged by and cut by a hog, but
because of the destruction you as
a human helped to cause I don't get to feel the
adrenaline pump as I'm
hunted by a bear, or followed by wolves,
to do that I'm
forced to fly to Alaska. It's time
you folks figure out who
the real destroyer of nature
is and rally behind us, the sportsmen,
to limit the destruction
of the land developer,
and other dangerous folks.
Steve
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Editor's Note: Steve Moody is also
the author of "Hog Hunting In South Texas"
and his webpage can be viewed at
LWS Hog Hunting.
Steve and his family reside
in South Texas, where he has a
welding business and hunts and trains dogs in
his spare time.