10/07/23 This cartoon is not the slightest bit like fiction. I've heard the wailing of a pheasant whose mate Bart had killed for sport when I was out of sight. My dogs have always known that they are not allowed to take one step towards wildlife. I've also witnessed a community of blujays in hysterics over a helpless chick on the ground. Hunting creates suffering. Without hunting, wildlife populations do in fact eventually self-regulate. Our farms will survive. It's bad enough that there are carnivores, and bad enough that humans ever needed to hunt or fish to survive. But sport? home |