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Environment & Energy

1StrongBlackMan

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1. This strikes me as kind of twisted ...

Reply to wtmusic (Original post)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 11:48 AM

Dec 2012

Many ranchers and hunters say the wolf hunts are a reasonable way to reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations.

Protect big game populations from the wolves that survive on them, so that humans can kill them for sport?

(and yes, imho, humans hunting big game is killing for sport, even if the hunter ends up eating it.)

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‘Famous’ Wolf Is Killed Outside Yellowstone [View all] wtmusic Dec 2012 OP

This strikes me as kind of twisted ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 #1

Attempting to rationalize their bloodlust is what's twisted wtmusic Dec 2012 #3

and calling wild animals "big game populations" is sickening to me stuntcat Dec 2012 #4

The deliberate killing of these beautiful creatures in the name of 'hunting' is sickening. sinkingfeeling Dec 2012 #2

If I was on that research team, I would pay *very* careful attention to the last data received ... Nihil Dec 2012 #5

Very good points Tumbulu Dec 2012 #6