Here is an email I wrote to an enviro-wacko from a real activist (me) that works in the field and not from the comfort of his own little studio. He had claimed that all hunters are, basically, evil:
By pretending that all hunters are alike, you sound like a mirror image of Bill O'Reilly. I am an animal rights activist, IN THE FIELD (not an office - in the FIELD) and I AM A HUNTER.
Get a clue; it's precisely this kind of rhetoric that makes all environmentalists get lumped into the extremist category. One side says all activists are malcontents and the other side says that its opponents are all evil, uncaring killers. The truth, as always, lies between but as AMERICANS WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN 'IN BETWEEN', ARE WE?
Ninety percent of activists put themselves squarely in box called 'extremism.' It's all one way or the other.
Have you ever heard of Ducks Unlimited? Did you know that without many a hunter the Buffalo Field Campaign would have lost its impetus long ago?
Did you know that where the hunter goes, habitat follows? Do you know why elk are allowed to roam free carrying brucellosis throughout Montana while bison are not? It's because Montana does not have a rich bison hunting tradition. It has a rich elk hunting tradition and as a result, they are all over the place.
Did you know that without the Idaho Sportsmen's Caucus, the Cove Mallard fight would have accomplished very little. In fact, because of those HUNTERS the Frank Church Wilderness is still largely intact.
I'll be you live in a city.
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You may call yourself an animal-rights activist, but how can you be when you hunt? Animal-rights activists treat animals with respect and compassion. We do not kill them.
On planet Earth, it will not be remembered that those who acted as if there was no spiritual karma to killing a plant were intelligent or wise. It will probably be known that humans picked a few species to cherish and love and all life perished because even so-called environmentalists could not bring themselves to grasp the circle of life. No, humans continued to focus on just a few species, mostly the ones that reminded them of themselves, and the planet died because people were less interested in a functioning, whole ecosystem than in what someone might label them if they thought that way.
..anyone that can't wrap their brain around the fact that soy farming destroys wildlife habitat and that hunters REQUIRE wildlife habitat is someone that I am not in a position to educate. I simply don't have that much skill.
... all the animals I have ever eaten or worn around my waist, on my feet, or on my back or over my shoulder.
Shoot - if you think that there is no spiritual karma to killing a plant then you still have some evolving to do. Just don't eat things that remind us of ourselves, eh? Real hunting preserves habitat and no farming does that. I don't care how organic is your product; if you are clearing the land and planting neat rows and columns then you are doing much more harm than hunting does. Hunting requires habitat; game harvesting only requires cleared land and caged wildlife.
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