Killing Wolves, Because Only People Should Kill Livestock
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September, 2009 Update: Wolf hunting has begun in Idaho.
When President Obama put a freeze on the Bush administration's 11th hour regulation changes, including the delisting of wolves under the Endangered Species Act, it looked like the wolves might still be saved. Not so. On Friday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that he would delist wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone region. This means that the wolves in the area will no longer by protected by the Endangered Species Act, and individual states will be allowed to kill them in predator control programs.
I was not too hopeful when Salazar was named Secretary of the Interior. Salazar is a hunter and rancher, so it's no surprise that he has sided with the animal agriculture interests. Ranchers want the wolves killed because wolves sometimes kill livestock.
Killing wolves so that there will be more cattle for people to kill sounds a lot like Sarah Palin killing wolves so that there will be more moose and caribou for hunters to kill. Why has Palin's wolf-killing program gotten so much bad press, while killing wolves in the Rockies and killing sea lions in Oregon go largely unnoticed on the national level? I have my own theories. What do you think?
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If wolves really cared about the planet they would go vegan.
Oh, shut up! Wolves keep the environment in check. They do care about the planet and their place in it.
ya know i think that wolves should not be delisted because people would take advantage of the wolves being gone and hunt more deer and elk than they should. The wolves control the population of both deer and elk and delisting them would be really gay
Obama has turned out to be the same lying poltician as all the others. He threw Salazar into the mix because he has to satisfy the Hispanic votes he got. The US Wildlife Service should be renamed the US Wildlife Killers. That’s all they do is kill, kill, kill. You can just bet that the coyote-getters, the M-44s, Compound 1080, strychnine and other baiting will be done with avengence. This takes place on public lands, too, people.
The government says that the California condor and the bald eagle were victims of lead shot poisoning. NO! The cause was Compound 1080 passed along the food chain. What Compound 1080 didn’t kill, the other poisons did their dirty work, all under the guise of “predator control.” The Department of the Interior is the most corrupt of all the government agencies and Obama should be ashamed of himself, touting himself as an environmental president.
Yeah, I agree, we should let the wolves overrun our livestock and big game, so that vegans and animal rights activists (the minority) feel all happy and fuzzy inside. Get real people, humans are at the top of the food chain for a reason. Aside from our naturally omnivorous digestive system, and our uncanny ability to regulate the Ecosystem through millions wasted on animal protction programs, we, the majority eat animals and stay on top of the food chain because we don’t leave it up to big game predators to be the voice of reason. I think sometimes you PETA supporting, twig and berries eating, human hating folks just argue and make a fuss because you’re bored. Why don’t you turn you attention to taking care of the things that really matter, like feeding the hungry, and helping the poor. Things that will benefit society, instead of wasting everyone’s time with you childish outlook on a false reality. You people are determined to destroy humanity.
One other thing to the compound 1080, m44, strychnine conspirator. You totally contradicted yourself by bashing the government, and then referencihatshat the government said about compound 1080, leading us to believe, that you believe what you want to believe instead of sticking to the facts. I mean why would you believe the government is right if you also think they’re liars? You sir, are an idiot.
And you, Doug, are a jackass. Typical–the backwards people who think animal cruelty and abuse are acceptable are usually rude, nasty and uneducated. Hey Doug, animal protection does really matter and it does benefit society in many ways I won’t bother to explain to you since I suspect you are too contrary and stupid to comprehend the facts. And if people are supportive of that cause or any other it’s none of your business. Maybe you’re the one who is bored; if so you should take your own suggestion and turn your attention to feeding the hungry and helping the poor.