Heads Up BC - Anti Attack!

[IronNoggin]

Pulled from FB, but is something we best be addressing:

"Time for us to get vocal and write our MP's and new FLNR minister Katrine Conroy, the anti hunters are beating us to it, just look at this.

Takaya

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How you can help put an end to trophy hunting in B.C.:

1. Write a letter or brief statement explaining why you believe that trophy hunting in B.C. needs to stop.

2. Email that statement to the following addresses:

info@takayaslegacy.com
FLNR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Conservation.Officer.Service@gov.bc.ca
FishandWildlife@gov.bc.ca

We will collect the letters we receive and use them in future campaigns to protect wolves in B.C. Together we can prevent other wolves from sharing Takaya's fate!"
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Seriously, each of us better consider writing a letter or two ourselves.
Can't let this bull$hit gain traction (again!).

Nog

 

[btabin]

I'm not against trophy hunting, but how could you shoot something and not want to eat it? I like to think that's part of the experience of the hunt.

 

[S-357]

Im on the island and my mp is ndp...be like writing a letter to a wall....

 

[City Boy]

I'm not against trophy hunting, but how could you shoot something and not want to eat it? I like to think that's part of the experience of the hunt.

And a year later the sentiment will be why eat animals you hunt, when you can buy cow pieces at the store or eat chunks of fake veggie goop?

 

[btabin]

And a year later the sentiment will be why eat animals you hunt, when you can buy cow pieces at the store or eat chunks of fake veggie goop?

What are you even talking about? All I said is I don't understand why people wouldn't want to eat perfectly fine game.

 

[Ashcroft]

Im on the island and my mp is ndp...be like writing a letter to a wall....

S 357, this is a provincial matter, you need to take it up with your MLA, not your MP.

 

[Runningfool]

What are you even talking about? All I said is I don't understand why people wouldn't want to eat perfectly fine game.

I think the comment stems from the fact that the picture on the “take action” poster is of a hunter holding up a wolf...not what most would consider perfectly fine game to eat and an example of something you could shoot and not want to eat.

 

['Boo]

What are you even talking about? All I said is I don't understand why people wouldn't want to eat perfectly fine game.

What in the world makes you think trophy hunters don't eat their kills?

I think the anti-hunting campaign is working when people on gun-related social media automatically side with the anti's thinking so-called trophy animals are only killed for their horns, antlers, or hides.

I think the comment stems from the fact that the picture on the “take action” poster is of a hunter holding up a wolf...not what most would consider perfectly fine game to eat and an example of something you could shoot and not want to eat.

Killing wolves is not what most of us would consider "trophy hunting" any more than shooting ground squirrels.

 

[DGY]

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[Runningfool]

Killing wolves is not what most of us would consider "trophy hunting" any more than shooting ground squirrels.

Exactly. Anti-hunters like the ones behind this campaign are either using language (trophy) to inflame or are truly ignorant of what they are talking about. In speaking with non-hunters about hunting I’ve sometimes heard, “Well hunting is ok I guess but I just don’t agree with trophy hunting”... they have no idea what trophy hunting is, but they are certain that whatever it is they are against it!

 

[jk33]

I'm not against trophy hunting, but how could you shoot something and not want to eat it? I like to think that's part of the experience of the hunt.

I don't know maybe to help keep the predator population in check so we do have something wild and natural to harvest and eat?

 

[steamy teabag]

I'm not against trophy hunting, but how could you shoot something and not want to eat it? I like to think that's part of the experience of the hunt.

The next step is go get your meat from the grocery store were no animals were harmed.

 

[DGY]

The next step is go get your meat from the grocery store were no animals were harmed.

Well I’ve been hunting for 30 years and never shot something for
Trophy only for meat!! So because I’m not a trophy hunter I don’t have the right to hunt to feed my family??? Because I don’t shoot predators, or if I have a choice between 2 moose I pick the smallest one, I’m a disgrace to the hunting community??

 

[nowarningshot]

Never eaten wolf......just a few cougars. Late Saturday night.

 

[City Boy]

Sorry my point was more of a narrowing and narrowing definition of what is acceptable hunting and the consequences of that. “Trophy” is vague. As pointed out, many trophy animals are actually eaten. It’s also perfectly fine to hunt just for food, but I don’t turn my nose down at someone calling in some coyotes.

This is the slippery slope strategy that the anti everything uses. Like black rifles are bad, then pistols are bad and then the single shot rifle eventually has to go too. I see these people all the time that want ALL hunting gone .... and a smaller, but growing portion of them don’t even want us to eat meat. We allow them to start dividing what is acceptable and we all will have to do our hunting in the grocery aisles and hopefully we don’t have to eat the veggie goop.

 

[Super Mario]

The health aspects alone.

 

[robocop]

Why do people hunt still????? You do realize they grow meat everyday at your local grocery store!!!

 

[duncansuds]

Well I’ve been hunting for 30 years and never shot something for
Trophy only for meat!! So because I’m not a trophy hunter I don’t have the right to hunt to feed my family??? Because I don’t shoot predators, or if I have a choice between 2 moose I pick the smallest one, I’m a disgrace to the hunting community??

Are you sure you are keeping up with the conversation? No one is talking about this at all. This conversation for those who don’t get it yet, is bringing to light that there is more than simply one reason to manage the population of the wildlife around us. This means that a few animals will meet their end and not be consumed by people. They will be taken for predator management, or be used in one of the various alternate forms such as being turned to pet food. Just keep shooting the smaller animals. No one is concerned about that.

 

[scruffee]

I'm not against trophy hunting, but how could you shoot something and not want to eat it? I like to think that's part of the experience of the hunt.

This attitude other hunters have is why we always lose.

Who cares? These people pump tons of cash into the industry and the meat is normally donated... I shoot animals here that I donate every year, am I a douche?

 

[golddust]

If she doesn't want to kill the wolves, maybe she can move to Smithers and go up to the caribou herds and shoo the dinner away as the wolves circle in for the kill.