NATURAL PREDATORS AREN’T “PESTS”
Every year the U.S. government murders about 3 million animals, including wolves under the guise of “predator population control.” This wrecks the law of nature. Wolves are essential in the web of life on earth, and if anything, there aren’t enough of them. The government carries out this free killing spree for wealthy ranchers and hunters. (Well, not exactly free for taxpayers. In 2006 the government wasted about 108 million dollars in all its wildlife extermination programs.) Ranchers consider any natural predator a pest because they want to steal the land–that is the animal’s rightful territory–for their own misuse. Hunters see natural predators as competition for prey. For instance, elk slain for frivolous trophy “sport.”
How do government goons kill wolves? Popular methods include steel-jaw traps, chasing and gunning from helicopters, and using a hellish poison called Compound 1080–invented by the Nazis. Oh, setting fire to or gassing a den of wolf pups is another common method.
Imagine these killers crashing into your bedroom with poisonous gas bombs and AK-47s when you’re sleeping in the middle of the night.
Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers to bring awareness to your community. Give talks and hand out pamphlets at schools or public libraries or wherever a group of listeners welcomes you. Perhaps use WordPress and create a blog. But the most effortless and most effective impact you can make to save wildlife and save this world is to live a vegan life.
Whenever we’re not eating or wearing the miserable “products” that come from ranching, we’re bringing our dream of a more peaceful, healthy earth into reality.
One earth, one home…for all.
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Be nice now….
“We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.”
–John Steinbeck
For more insights, check out Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez.
(Click to read table of contents and excerpts from 2004 edition.)
