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America's Secret War on Wildlife

I read this article in Men's Journal. These are the only links I found for it online. It is a pdf file, so you have to open it. The text is small, but readable, and worth the time.

It made me sick to my stomach, but after the initial reaction, made me even more fired up about this movement of ours. This is a true outrage, that should be stopped. Everyone I have shown the article to has been truly shocked that this is going on, and also the fact that this is funded with our taxpayer money.I am posting this because I think it is relevant as an example of just how sick this government is.

http://www.christopherketcham.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12....

or click on this link, then click on -the report (this is the same pdf file)

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=29635

here is a section from the article-

"On average its 1,450 officers shoot,trap, or poison more than 1.7 million animals every year, mostly in western states. In 2006 alone, Wildlife Services dispatched more than 200,000 mammals, including 278 endangered gray wolves, 318 black bears, 2,500 bobcats, and 87,000 coyotes, according to the agency's annual reports."
"The agency's hunters and trappers-exterminators, in practice-set out on foot and horseback and in ATVs,jeeps,airplanes,and helicopters;their victims include not just mammals but redwing blackbirs,cormorants,herons,hawks,and even bald eagles, as well as domestic pets whose deaths are often ignored or even, critics claim, covered up by agents in the field.In 2006 Wildlife Services killed 1,184 cats and 512 dogs."
"The carnage is just staggering," says Wendy Keefover-Ring, the director of carnivore protection for Sinapu, a wildlife conservation group. She points out that WS has wiped out more than 7 million critters since 2003."Wildlife Services is like the wildlife equivalent of Blackwater, shooting first and deflecting questions later."




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Too late..

The phony environmental animal rights movement is no longer needed to fool the people into the NWO. It's here....this is irrelevant and will become even more irrelevant when you are driven out of your home by the IMF. This is called HUNTING and you might have to do it when you are starving.

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Anyone have the article?

So what do you propose we do

So what do you propose we do with all the predators if there is no predator control? What about the moose population that the poor endangered gray wolf has eraticated? What about the calf elk that the poor endangered gray wolf kill for the fun of it? What about the thousands of fawn deer and antelope that the eagles, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, and bears kill? If we had no predator control, we would be overrun with predators. It really pisses me off when people in the east pass judgment on us in the west for things they know nothing about, so horatius, shut your face!

Bryan

Out here

Federal tax money is used to chase wild horses & burros with helicopters. They are chased down until exhausted & then captured. They are kept in pens & supposedly given away. I think most are sold to foreign markets for slaughter. Anything to make a buck, 'eh?
BLM's excuse was there's not enough food & water in the desert to feed & water them. Oh, my - I wonder what horses & burros did before there was a govt. to take care of them like that!?

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

To answer your comments--Tonight there was a news story

about wild horse adoptions in our area. For 150$ you can adopt a wild mustang, if you have proper facilities for it. A year later the BLM will visit your place to see if the mustang is being cared for properly, and if so, will give you ownership papers. However, with the poor economy they are having trouble finding homes for them.
They DO NOT slaughter the mustangs as that is against the law. The population of wild horses increases by 25% each year, so every 4 years the herd doubles, so, yes, there is a problem with food and water. Horses can graze forage too close to the ground and will actually pull grasses up by the roots, and this does affect forage for wild game and cattle.
Excess wild horses that do not find adopted homes are well cared for---at an astronomical cost to the taxpayers! Those caring for the horses provide vet care and feed and make a good living doing so.
As to what the horses did until there was a govt to care for them? The ranchers in the West controlled the herds, broke them to ride, and made sure there was a high quality stud with them to keep the quality up. Horses were used by the military, so ranchers would break some and sell to the government, as well.

Um

some of my post was sarcasm.

It is not illegal to slaughter horses in Mexico and our gov't does sell to them & other FOREIGN markets - a lot are shipped there. There is plenty of research/footage online to verify this. Yes recently, horse-slaughter was made illegal here in the States - just about the only good thing G.W. did while in office. Wild horses & burros are a disappearing American Heritage. They survived for thousands of years before ranchers came along.

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

UN Agenda 21

Wars, the military testing, corporations with no obligation to clean up and governments who protect corporations, like oil companies spills, and over fishing, and pharmecutical dumping, I take issue with the blame being put on human individuals...

Al Gore had the audacity to be filmed riding in SUVs and jet setting to tell we the poepel that we are the problem... and I wonder'ed, was there a chem trail behind Gore's jet?

WARS destroy far more wildlife then is reported.

PEOPLE are the solution to pollution, not the problem. The problem is BAD GOVERNMENT and corporate crime.

WE ARE GOING TO WIN!

He also owns several homes

He also owns several homes and is part owner of an oil company.

This is one more reason why

This is one more reason why I wish man kind never industrialized. :(

Support the small family farmers

Choose to eat a plant-centered diet. Eat more organic, locally grown vegetables and grains, less meat, less dairy. Eat as close to vegetarian as you are comfortable with. Make the proper food and exercise choices

And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

Watch "Meet Your Meat" again.

And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

Origin of the term "vegetarian"

It is an American Indian word, translated it means "not very good hunter."

But, I do agree that a diet heavy in fruits and vegetables eaten as close to raw as possible is better than a diet of sweets and meats. Fruits and vegetables keep your PH alkaline while meats and sweets push you too far to the acid side. Eating beef raw or very rare is far more healthy than well cooked just because heat destroys vitamins. I don't think dairy is very good for us and grains can be not so good either.

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." Thomas H. Huxley

A problem with eating raw or

A problem with eating raw or rare beef is humans don't have the ability to break down the tertiary or quaternary bonds that exist in meat.

Raw meat digest easier for me.

My raw food friend sat me down and we both ate a steak raw. It was from a local farmer of grass fed cattle.
The meal was mostly the raw meat, including the raw fat which was what my raw food friend ate first, he cut along the fat line, ate that first. I sliced a raw potato and some sweet red onion and cherry tomatoes.
I had no upset stomach or quesy feeling and was finished digesting and out the other end the next morning.
On a raw food approach, I choose to allow about a one inch thick, silver dollar sized piece of meat once per week, or even once per month.

And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

I'm glad you didn't have an

I'm glad you didn't have an upset stomach but bear in mind two things:

1. Nature did not intend for you to eat raw meat.

2. Your G-I tract did not break down that beef very well.

People find #1 baffling. For the sake of saving time I'll defend that point now.

In nature all creatures eat what is available to them based on (and relying on) both their biological makeup and habitat. Cheetahs and gazelles may live in the same habitat but cheetahs do not graze and gazelles do not eat meat.

Humans were not built with claws, or pointed, sharp molars, etc for taking down and killing prey and then disembowling and consuming prey raw within minutes.

Try taking down a steer w/o any mechanical advantage and see how it goes. I'm sure you know what will happen.

When humans eat beef, pork, lamb, etc., it's because there's an animal agriculture industry that (unnaturally) did all the work for you.

Be careful when eating raw meat, seriously, it's clearly not in accordance w/nature and asking for trouble.

We are however well built for pulling carrots out of the ground or fruit off trees and eating them raw.

And you got that info where?

Hunter-gatherer societies hunt/hunted what? corn?

Specifically which info?

Specifically which info?

Sorry, I must admit bad bad skimming.

I thought you were saying meat. Yeah, the raw meat thing is certainly not our bag. Dining is not a philosophical activity to me.

Doesn't eating

raw meat like beef or pork give you worms & intestinal parasites of all kinds? (pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms, etc.)

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

and last I checked

I had CANINES in my mouth and only one chamber in my stomach to digest food.

When humans get another chamber in their stomach, have only molars in their mouth and chew cud I will definitley consider a vegetarian diet.

Cutting down on meats isn't a bad idea. But definitely not eliminate it from my diet.

Does my burka make my butt look fatwa?

Does my burka make my butt look fatwa?

And not to pick on you GW

And not to pick on you GW but you know who else has "canines" in their mouths: horses, giraffes, and many other herbivores.

It's a name, don't get hung up on it.

Compare your molars to that

Compare your molars to that of a carnivore and tell me if you see a difference and I don't mean in size but structure.

Hey, how about you have the freedom to eat what you want,

and the rest of us have the same freedom? Or do you think the government should be legislating this? This is what liberty is all about! I have always thought it strange that folks will picket a hamburger joint---but I have yet to see anyone picket a vegetarian restaurant!

You have that freedom. For

You have that freedom. For your second question: no.

Coon Man

To urban hunter, next meal is scampering by. Ohh I got coon in my eye! http://www.detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395/To...

Live Free or Die.

Live Free or Die.

If you are upset now, just wait till people are starving.

When things get bad enough not even cockroaches will be safe from hungry humans, much less common mammals.

One thing that really hacks me off is people dumping their pets out in rural areas when they can't feed them. The cats decimate the wildlife and the dogs get in packs and have been known to kill farm animals. The only good thing about this dumping is that it keeps our shooting skills honed.

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." Thomas H. Huxley

I hold life to be sacred

I do not have any problem with taking an animal's life for food, it is part of the sacred nature of life. I do not have any problem with a person defending their property from predators, regardless of how many legs the predator has. However, I have no faith at all that our government is performing a service, or that they are ending the life of these creatures with any level of respect. More likely, these government toadies are running around playing Rambo with glee, knowing they will never be tried for murder because although murder was in their heart, it was not a human life they wantonly ended.

Truth exists, and it deserves to be cherished.

Our wilderness will not be wilderness . . . . . .

"The federal government hands out permits for grazing. The permits allow too many cattle on depleted resources, year in and year out. This is proven. Since this has gone on so long, ranchers almost consider our public lands to be their private estates. "
"And the wonton destructive of our wildlife is also not to be bragged about as above...how wretched is that. Plus, the wildlife is a natural resource of the United States and belongs to its people For the government to encourage the slaughter of what little remains is unconscionable."

(excerpts from thamnosma's post below)

And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

In a Capitalist Society...

...There are no "Public Resources"...only individual property. When the state owns the property or the means of production, we call that communism. Laws are to protect Human life and Property..Wildlife is property..Property in a Free Society doesn't have Human Rights or Legal protection, other than protecting the rights of the owner of that property. You can make all the "moral arguments" you want for animals. They are irrelevent when it comes to a Capitalist society..animals are property..so the only legal question is,"are the owners property rights to use his property as he/she soley see fit being protected"? In short, the Government should not own land, only individuals. All individuals are free to do as they wish with game on their property, because all that game, belongs to the property owner.

Sounds like the Widlife "Service"

is to wildlife, what the Internal Revenue "Service" is to US!

this movement of ours...

I only disagree if they're using Federal dollars to do this. I'd rather have private trappers do it.