Wisconsin Wildlife Ethic will be tabling at Mad City Vegan Fest this Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m – 5 p.m. at the Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa Street in Madison.
Wildlife Ethic tabled at Vegan Fest last year. Many people, even in Madison, do not know the plight of our wolves, and wildlife. Attendance for this event has been great…over 1,300 people attended the first Vegan Fest, and over 2,000 attended last year. This year, more than 50 exhibitors and vegan food vendors will be participating!You can learn a lot of healthy information by spending some time with the vendors, non-profits and listening to the presentations. Come, learn and enjoy some really good food!
Check the speakers schedule ahead of time so you don’t miss the ones that most interest you!
If you would like to attend or better yet,volunteer to help with the booth. Patricia Randolph…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Ranchers have been displacing wildlife and wilderness for thousands of years, since the dawn and march of civilization. They do not see themselves as such, but ranchers, farmers, hunters have led a war on wildlife. Ranchers often see themselves as stewards of the land and conservationists because they allow some animals on their land, even if the the land is public leased land. But they are not tolerant of predators. wild horses, bison. Hunters often see themselves as conservationists because they work to expand and protect the game herds for their blood sport traditions, but they create a huge distortion in wilderness ecology by marginalizing predators and farming ungulates and game birds. Both groups are hugely into entitlement thinking. Ranchers, particularly in the West, see all public land as “their land” and they are against wild horses, bison, predators. Hunters and fishermen see their sports targets as theirs and resent sharing with raptors, storks, apex predators. They are wrong about it all, not seeing the benefits of balanced ecology and the healthy roles of predators. But their thinking errors get in the way of any change: Entitlement, power and control, victim stance, use of their delusional righteous anger to control others, dehumanization of opponents to their views, self centered thinking. Major obstacles to change are society’s own ignorance, and indifference to the unsustainable animal farming and game farming effects, most obivous to inevitable extinction of land and sea wildlife and maybe our own existence (too abstract a concept for them).