Liked it until the 16th paragraph. In my neck of the woods, this IS how “real sportsmen” act. It’s how they all act. “Ethical hunting” is a contradiction in terms.
Yes, agreed, ethical hunting is like Alberta, Canada claiming the Tar Sands project is ethical oil! To back this up, please check You Tube video ‘Cry Wolf’. It is exactly what I have been writing about on this blog about how Big Oil plans to kill wolves via political lackies, de-listing here and mass genocide in Canada of 6,000 wolves in Alberta alone! Due to NAFTA, this is an issue without borders and the sooner we stop the importation of Tar Sands Oil, the better off, ethically, we will be. It is not just about the de-listing, yes, it is totally necessary to stop that, but as I have been trying to tell people, there is action and there is reaction. The delisting is reaction. Nabeki is correct about Testor’s seat but this plan goes back all the way to the Clinton Administration. I was helping a couple of charities that Ralph Nader was also working with and I ended up helping Ralph with some of his projects, too. He was fighting NAFTA becoming law at the time. The common folks didn’t have a clue about what it meant to them. We tried but we got steamrollered, exactly like the wolves by exactly the same multinational corporate entities that are now responsible for the wolf genocide here and in Canada!
A while back I wrote that ‘Don’t you question why all this wolf slaughter is happening?’ And that the psycho wolf killers are basically just ‘end users’ in a long line of users of the wolf as a scapegoat. The top of the list is on the Forbes 500, near or at the top. That’s where the funding comes from to delist and slaughter wolves. The ‘logic’ is different here because they are fighting the ESA, they don’t want wolves to spread out because that means fighting places other than the ‘wolf states’, where wolves still would be protected under the ESA. In Canada, the wolf slaughter is just f***ing stupid! They think by killing wolves, other big game will go up in numbers and nobody will notice they are dying from the Tar Sands! It’s some evil bean counter’s plan, who has no clue about what wolves actually eat. But Big Game is Big Business on both sides of the border and by ‘throwing the wolves to the hunters’, they hide the damage done ecologically by Big Oil and Big Gas and their bullshit slogan ‘Ethical Oil’.
I should add, ‘Cry Wolf’ is not the old movie, that was’Never Cry Wolf’. I put a link to ‘Cry Wolf’ on my facebook page. I have hundreds of e-mails coming in now and I am on a cheap tablet, so don’t feel slighted if I don’t get back to you! Jim, here’s the biggest game of all, I know you will love exposing this! I have the security set high on facebook, if you can’t get into it, let me know by e-mail your facebook page and I will send a friend request so you can get in. Sorry, I have to do that to keep the wolf haters out. Otherwise look up ‘ ‘Cry Wolfan unethical oil story” on You Tube. Thanks for getting involved exposing the wolf wars!
Everyone I know is going broke! I’ll buy your books, directly if it helps more? Just tell me how. I will send you a wolf t-shirt, too. 🙂 I live on a small pension, it’s the best I can do. I give my cartoons away as well, all for the same cause. I’d love to get , mainstreamed, too but you have a better chance than I do! I really need a working laptop, trying to make a living with a $50 tablet isn’t working… anybody got at least a Windows 7 laptop for cheap, seriously? I have an older linux based one but it won’t work with the printer/scanner so I can’t scan the cartoons. I don’t care if the battery is dead if the ac adapter isn’t. I will trade, as well. Black Friday is coming, folks, think of me if you replace a laptop.
Jim, try to keep up the blog, it’s the best blog on the internet and change is coming. Chellie Pingree owns a newspaper, send some of your work to her… you might get lucky?
Sorry, I’ve never heard of her Melody. Yes, I get a little more from selling the book myself; you can always contact me privately: exposingthebiggame@gmail.com
Hey Jim, I will contact you with some info, thanks!
Thank you Melody
Jim,
Thank you for sharing this commentary. I can imagine the vitriolic and threatening messages he might receive as the perpetrators turn their sights on him to protect their power. The incidents of prejudice against animals followed by their slavery, torture and murder is no different than that suffered by certain groups of humans by other humans.
However, as bythewindsailor points out, by suggesting that there is something called “ethical hunting” lays a trap by which we remain complicit in the idea that killing wolves or other animals for some/any reason is justified, even if we aim to mitigate the most cruel and barbaric. Essentially it is a loop hole wherein each individual hunter can place himself and by which we can confront the heinous mobs, but satisfy ourselves that we haven’t really offended anyone.
If we look at the greater dialogue that has us questioning whether animals should be resources for human use or free beings, articles like Wilkinson’s can possibly help some people see another perspective, but if we aim for abolition of animal abuse/use we have to follow up and critique the short comings that ultimately send a mixed message.
The civil rights movement fought for the end of prejudice not for the regulation of prejudice (though it seems that is what we really ended up with.)
Let me admit here that I felt so excited by the majority of Wilkinson’s piece that I completely glossed over the “ethical hunting” line at the end that bythewindsailor pointed out. It amazes me how easily I still miss things like that. It has only been a couple of years since I even learned that there was a difference between animal welfare and an abolitionist approach to animal rights. I’m working hard to hone my skills of discourse on the subject and thank you for the chance to educate myself here at the risk of going beyond the scope of your reason for posting the article.
They have given us so much. Wolves gave us dogs and we need to respect that. They gave us thousands of years of happiness with our dogs. Dogs are descendants of the wolf and are loving, kind, and friendly. We owe them so much and I believe that they should be granted immense respect.
They can offer you a family and love if you just gave them the chance and take the proper steps. They have so much more to give us. Save our wolves.
Screw elk and deer. What do they offer?
Wolves at least offer you something and some interest. They are beautiful creatures just as important as any other.
They keep our forests from being eaten up. Deer, Elk, and Moose all eat up that beauty. Wolves keep the perfect balance in the animal kingdom.
Wolves are one of the most beautiful creatures out there.
They can be friendly. There has been incidences where people have run into a wolf pack and instead of being attacked, they were greeted with nuzzling, licking and playfulness. 🙂
I’m still with him, just need to educate a little and where better than here? You made excellent points as did he. I’m a wolf advocate so I have to say, we need all the friendly folks we can get now, with all out genocide going on!
Respectfully Sir, as a fellow wolf advocate and wolfdog rescuer, the deer and elk live in equal balance with the wolves. If we are going to say screw anybody, it should be the so-called sportsmen and the elites in the energy cartels that dump money into sportsmen’s associations so their candidates get the loyalty votes, who in turn vote against environmental issues. I totally wouldn’t be surprised if some hunting guide got asked by one of his elite clients, while out big game hunting, ‘How can we get rid of these wolves?’ The answer was likely ‘Screw the wolves!’… and so the the oil and gas lawyers and the spin artists did exactly that using lies and fear-mongering, wolfless pretty pictures of nature and pictures of wolves snarling with blood on their faces and fuzzy math as usual. Neil Young flew over the tar sands and said it looked like Japan after we dropped the atomic bombs on them! Wolves, deer and elk all drink the poisoned water in Alberta and the wolf-haters drink the political spin artist’s koolaid. Understand who we are fighting. Wildlife are innocents in all of this. I know you are not allowed to speak out against superiors. Just know who you must hold responsible for the genocide of wolves.
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Good article…sharing
Liked it until the 16th paragraph. In my neck of the woods, this IS how “real sportsmen” act. It’s how they all act. “Ethical hunting” is a contradiction in terms.
Yes, agreed, ethical hunting is like Alberta, Canada claiming the Tar Sands project is ethical oil! To back this up, please check You Tube video ‘Cry Wolf’. It is exactly what I have been writing about on this blog about how Big Oil plans to kill wolves via political lackies, de-listing here and mass genocide in Canada of 6,000 wolves in Alberta alone! Due to NAFTA, this is an issue without borders and the sooner we stop the importation of Tar Sands Oil, the better off, ethically, we will be. It is not just about the de-listing, yes, it is totally necessary to stop that, but as I have been trying to tell people, there is action and there is reaction. The delisting is reaction. Nabeki is correct about Testor’s seat but this plan goes back all the way to the Clinton Administration. I was helping a couple of charities that Ralph Nader was also working with and I ended up helping Ralph with some of his projects, too. He was fighting NAFTA becoming law at the time. The common folks didn’t have a clue about what it meant to them. We tried but we got steamrollered, exactly like the wolves by exactly the same multinational corporate entities that are now responsible for the wolf genocide here and in Canada!
A while back I wrote that ‘Don’t you question why all this wolf slaughter is happening?’ And that the psycho wolf killers are basically just ‘end users’ in a long line of users of the wolf as a scapegoat. The top of the list is on the Forbes 500, near or at the top. That’s where the funding comes from to delist and slaughter wolves. The ‘logic’ is different here because they are fighting the ESA, they don’t want wolves to spread out because that means fighting places other than the ‘wolf states’, where wolves still would be protected under the ESA. In Canada, the wolf slaughter is just f***ing stupid! They think by killing wolves, other big game will go up in numbers and nobody will notice they are dying from the Tar Sands! It’s some evil bean counter’s plan, who has no clue about what wolves actually eat. But Big Game is Big Business on both sides of the border and by ‘throwing the wolves to the hunters’, they hide the damage done ecologically by Big Oil and Big Gas and their bullshit slogan ‘Ethical Oil’.
I should add, ‘Cry Wolf’ is not the old movie, that was’Never Cry Wolf’. I put a link to ‘Cry Wolf’ on my facebook page. I have hundreds of e-mails coming in now and I am on a cheap tablet, so don’t feel slighted if I don’t get back to you! Jim, here’s the biggest game of all, I know you will love exposing this! I have the security set high on facebook, if you can’t get into it, let me know by e-mail your facebook page and I will send a friend request so you can get in. Sorry, I have to do that to keep the wolf haters out. Otherwise look up ‘ ‘Cry Wolfan unethical oil story” on You Tube. Thanks for getting involved exposing the wolf wars!
Of course I had the same reaction you did to this piece. That’s why he’s writing for the mainstream media and I’m going broke doing all this for free.
Everyone I know is going broke! I’ll buy your books, directly if it helps more? Just tell me how. I will send you a wolf t-shirt, too. 🙂 I live on a small pension, it’s the best I can do. I give my cartoons away as well, all for the same cause. I’d love to get , mainstreamed, too but you have a better chance than I do! I really need a working laptop, trying to make a living with a $50 tablet isn’t working… anybody got at least a Windows 7 laptop for cheap, seriously? I have an older linux based one but it won’t work with the printer/scanner so I can’t scan the cartoons. I don’t care if the battery is dead if the ac adapter isn’t. I will trade, as well. Black Friday is coming, folks, think of me if you replace a laptop.
Jim, try to keep up the blog, it’s the best blog on the internet and change is coming. Chellie Pingree owns a newspaper, send some of your work to her… you might get lucky?
Sorry, I’ve never heard of her Melody. Yes, I get a little more from selling the book myself; you can always contact me privately: exposingthebiggame@gmail.com
Hey Jim, I will contact you with some info, thanks!
Thank you Melody
Jim,
Thank you for sharing this commentary. I can imagine the vitriolic and threatening messages he might receive as the perpetrators turn their sights on him to protect their power. The incidents of prejudice against animals followed by their slavery, torture and murder is no different than that suffered by certain groups of humans by other humans.
However, as bythewindsailor points out, by suggesting that there is something called “ethical hunting” lays a trap by which we remain complicit in the idea that killing wolves or other animals for some/any reason is justified, even if we aim to mitigate the most cruel and barbaric. Essentially it is a loop hole wherein each individual hunter can place himself and by which we can confront the heinous mobs, but satisfy ourselves that we haven’t really offended anyone.
If we look at the greater dialogue that has us questioning whether animals should be resources for human use or free beings, articles like Wilkinson’s can possibly help some people see another perspective, but if we aim for abolition of animal abuse/use we have to follow up and critique the short comings that ultimately send a mixed message.
The civil rights movement fought for the end of prejudice not for the regulation of prejudice (though it seems that is what we really ended up with.)
Let me admit here that I felt so excited by the majority of Wilkinson’s piece that I completely glossed over the “ethical hunting” line at the end that bythewindsailor pointed out. It amazes me how easily I still miss things like that. It has only been a couple of years since I even learned that there was a difference between animal welfare and an abolitionist approach to animal rights. I’m working hard to hone my skills of discourse on the subject and thank you for the chance to educate myself here at the risk of going beyond the scope of your reason for posting the article.
Yeah, too bad he had to ruin it with that “sportsman” drivel; he had a good thing going for a while.
I believe wolves are to be protected.
They have given us so much. Wolves gave us dogs and we need to respect that. They gave us thousands of years of happiness with our dogs. Dogs are descendants of the wolf and are loving, kind, and friendly. We owe them so much and I believe that they should be granted immense respect.
They can offer you a family and love if you just gave them the chance and take the proper steps. They have so much more to give us. Save our wolves.
Screw elk and deer. What do they offer?
Wolves at least offer you something and some interest. They are beautiful creatures just as important as any other.
They keep our forests from being eaten up. Deer, Elk, and Moose all eat up that beauty. Wolves keep the perfect balance in the animal kingdom.
Wolves are one of the most beautiful creatures out there.
They can be friendly. There has been incidences where people have run into a wolf pack and instead of being attacked, they were greeted with nuzzling, licking and playfulness. 🙂
I was with you until you said, “screw elk and deer.” They offer just as much in their own way. Needless to say, without them there would be no wolves.
I’m still with him, just need to educate a little and where better than here? You made excellent points as did he. I’m a wolf advocate so I have to say, we need all the friendly folks we can get now, with all out genocide going on!
Respectfully Sir, as a fellow wolf advocate and wolfdog rescuer, the deer and elk live in equal balance with the wolves. If we are going to say screw anybody, it should be the so-called sportsmen and the elites in the energy cartels that dump money into sportsmen’s associations so their candidates get the loyalty votes, who in turn vote against environmental issues. I totally wouldn’t be surprised if some hunting guide got asked by one of his elite clients, while out big game hunting, ‘How can we get rid of these wolves?’ The answer was likely ‘Screw the wolves!’… and so the the oil and gas lawyers and the spin artists did exactly that using lies and fear-mongering, wolfless pretty pictures of nature and pictures of wolves snarling with blood on their faces and fuzzy math as usual. Neil Young flew over the tar sands and said it looked like Japan after we dropped the atomic bombs on them! Wolves, deer and elk all drink the poisoned water in Alberta and the wolf-haters drink the political spin artist’s koolaid. Understand who we are fighting. Wildlife are innocents in all of this. I know you are not allowed to speak out against superiors. Just know who you must hold responsible for the genocide of wolves.
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