Dr. Denise Albert was able to remove a snare from around a wolf’s neck and treat the animal with antibiotics. NPS photo
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July 16, 2014
This is Joy Williams timeless essay on hunting, which exposes the brutality of the “sport”. It’s as true today as when she wrote it 24 years ago.
I post this every year or so to remind people what we’re up against and how humans contribute to animal suffering for sport.
I highlighted the paragraphs she devotes to wolves and their reintroduction, which was still years away when this essay was written. Peering into the future she predicted the terrible fate awaiting them.
What killing snares do. Imagine the pain this wolf suffered.
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The Killing Game
by Joy Williams
October 1990, Esquire Magazine
Death and suffering are a big part of hunting. A big part. Not that you’d ever know it…
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Exposing the Big Game 
What a wonderful essay! I don’t know how I’ve missed reading it until now. Thank you, Jim, for re-blogging it.
The fact is that 24 years after it was first published, brilliantly demolishing every single one of the feeble rationalizations used to defend sport hunting, the hunting industry has managed to tighten its strangle-hold on public lands and wildlife agencies, passed “hunter harassment” laws in most of the states, embedded “right-to-hunt” articles in a number of state constitutions, subverted the Endangered Species Act, and monopolized popular culture with pro-hunting propaganda (the History channels latest entry: “The Hunt” and NBCSN’s: “Shark Hunters”). It speaks volumes as to the so far ineffectual nature of the anti-hunting movement.
In Merritt Clifton’s piece the other day about the historical context of the “Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act” we’re told that Wayne Pacelle abandoned hunt sabotage activities in favor of “working within the system” for reform. If the present situation is any indicator, that approach has not been notably successful. Thus making the case, I would argue, for expanded direct action and civil disobedience. I mean how much concerted effort would it really take to neutralize the 3-5% of the US population that hunts and traps? And I’m not talking candle-light vigil type of actions here.
You’re welcome and thanks to Nabeki for posting it originally. How long are we going to have to address this issue before people listen and quit killing?