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Dec. 2nd, 2009 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hihoplasticI know I've been posting a lot lately, and I'm sorry for all the spam. But I really need to post this. I'm in tears right now and I honestly can't stop shaking and I think I might be sick. I knew that was going to happen when I opened the email, but I did it anyway. I got this message from Defenders of Wildlife:
All this isn't news to me. I already knew most of this. But every once in a while it just comes back and hits you, hard. And I feel so helpless to do anything about it. In Alaska, over 1,000 wolves have been killed since 2003. Secretary of the Interior Salazar upheld Bush's proposal to repeal the Endangered Species Act in Idaho and Montana, a decision that could cost over 200 wolves their lives.
I know not a lot of you are big animal-rights people. And I don't mean to shove my views on anyone. But I don't understand how anyone could be so cruel as to kill a living creature for no other reason than because they think it's "fun". Shooting at them from helicopters? They miss. The wolves don't die right away. They suffer horribly, and for what? So some gun-happy sonofabitch can have a photo-op with his kill? Feel proud about it? This is what people are teaching their children? I don't understand. Don't people get that animals feel pain? That they have families? How the fuck can anyone think hunting is a sport? How the fuck does anyone justify murdering another creature for fun? To hang it on their fucking wall?
There are so many issues in this world, so many worthy causes to support. I don't know why, but this hurts me so much. It's so unfair. And it makes me so, so, incredibly angry that I can't stand it.
As most of us prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, sharpshooters firing from a helicopter carried out the death sentence of the Basin Butte pack [1] -- executing most members of the wolf family, including several 7-8 month-old pups.
This terrible news comes on the heels of Idaho extending its awful wolf hunt into the critical denning season[2] -- even as the state is over half way to its deadly goal of killing 220 wolves.[3]
Pregnant wolf mothers -- typically carrying up to six pups -- can now be targeted for death and any surviving newborn pups could face a slow death by starvation as key family members are killed.
All this isn't news to me. I already knew most of this. But every once in a while it just comes back and hits you, hard. And I feel so helpless to do anything about it. In Alaska, over 1,000 wolves have been killed since 2003. Secretary of the Interior Salazar upheld Bush's proposal to repeal the Endangered Species Act in Idaho and Montana, a decision that could cost over 200 wolves their lives.
I know not a lot of you are big animal-rights people. And I don't mean to shove my views on anyone. But I don't understand how anyone could be so cruel as to kill a living creature for no other reason than because they think it's "fun". Shooting at them from helicopters? They miss. The wolves don't die right away. They suffer horribly, and for what? So some gun-happy sonofabitch can have a photo-op with his kill? Feel proud about it? This is what people are teaching their children? I don't understand. Don't people get that animals feel pain? That they have families? How the fuck can anyone think hunting is a sport? How the fuck does anyone justify murdering another creature for fun? To hang it on their fucking wall?
There are so many issues in this world, so many worthy causes to support. I don't know why, but this hurts me so much. It's so unfair. And it makes me so, so, incredibly angry that I can't stand it.
