The following is a letter to the editor submitted to the newspaper by a reader. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Echo Press. To submit a letter, send it to aedenloff@echopress.com or Echo Press, P.O. Box 549, Alexandria, MN 56308.7:25 am, Mar. 5, 2021
To the editor:
The public perception problem that Minnesota trappers are facing is of their own making (“Minnesota trappers fight public perception and dwindling participation,”Feb. 26 Echo Press). The gruesome pictures featured in that article are worth a thousand words of PR spin, and make it clear that trapping is a cruel pastime that has no place in modern society.
Most trapped animals are not killed for food, but rather to fuel the global fur trade. They die in steel-jaw leghold traps, which tear flesh, cut tendons and ligaments, and break bones and teeth as trapped animals bite –…
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