Why anyone who claims to be an advocate for animals would encourage more people to slaughter them defies common sense (“Why wildlife advocates are working to make hunting more popular in Maryland,” Nov. 23). At any rate, it’s a lost cause.
The statistic you cite — the number of hunters fell to about 11 million from 2011 to 2016 — partly explains why hunting is a dying blood sport. It’s half the number 50 years ago, and the decline is expected to accelerate over the next decade. People should be encouraged to peacefully observe and photograph animals, as 86 million Americans did over the same period, a 20 percent surge.
And can we retire the specious argument that hunting controls deer populations?…
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Exposing the Big Game 
That same old tired bullshit
From: Exposing the Big Game Reply-To: Exposing the Big Game Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 3:55 PM To: louise kane Subject: [New post] Hunting needs a burial plot
Exposing the Big Game posted: ” “
You know, I have been thinking along these lines too – when I read about ‘enshrining’ the right to hunt and fish in state constitutions. It needs to be enshrined all right – on a tombstone. Eventually when it become socially unacceptable, like racism and sexism. ‘Here’s lies the terrible speciesist concept.’
Like speciesism itself should be
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