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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELPRead the AP-PAC Press ReleaseMedia: Group drugged pheasants then shot themMedia: You Call That Sport?HuntersRapeNature.com
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SHARK's anti-hunting web site is named HuntersRapeNature.com. This has drawn heavy criticism from hunting apologists. Hunters insist that they are conservationists and sportsmen, and that they respect those they wantonly slaughter.
Their own video footage refutes their argument. Not only are these people obviously slob thrill killers of cage-raised birds, but there has been a profound silence from the rest of the hunting community about this matter that speaks volumes about the entire world of hunting.
Where is the protest against this unseemly, sleazy slaughter from the National Rifle Association (NRA), the International Bowhunting Association, North American Bowhunters, National Hunters Association, Professional Bowhunters Society, International Archery Foundation, Pheasants Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, Buckmasters, Christian Sportsmen's Fellowship, Hunting & Shooting Sports Heritage Fund, U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance or Safari Club International--to name just a few? There is no protest. This is the world of hunting.
One last word from SHARK. Can you imagine what these overstuffed goons would act like if they were the hunted? No high five's, no cries of victory over small cage-raised birds. Our well-educated guess (based on experience) is that these clowns would revert to the insecure, under-endowed cowards they truly are, crying for their mothers.See the 2 minute video taken by the proud hunters themselves:
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They Call That Sport?
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 05/27/06It's hard to decide what was more disturbing about the video shown by animal rights activists this week in which bowhunters kicked and prodded pheasants to make them take flight before firing their arrows at nearly point-blank range: The video itself, in which hunters exchanged high-fives after watching the limp birds fall to earth, or the response to the video from Larry Herrighty, chief of the Bureau of Wildlife Management in the state Department of Environmental Protection.
"I don't see anything illegal in the video that I saw," Herrighty said. If it wasn't illegal, it should be. It was barbaric.
The hunters apparently transported the pheasants to a site in Sussex County, releasing them one at a time. As the hunters stood in a row, bows at the ready, one of them would either poke or kick the pheasant to get it off the ground.
Before the birds were even 10 feet in the air, the hunters would unleash a fusillade of arrows. There's more sport involved in picking off plastic ducks at an amusement park.
The vice president of the United Bowhunters of New Jersey, which apparently sponsored the event, defended the hunters' actions. "Whether they flushed those birds by shaking or kicking at a bush, or used a dog, they are both accepted methods," said Matt Trembow.
They may be acceptable to bowhunters. But they violate any civilized standard of behavior.
The state Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says it will investigate the incident. Stuart Chaifetz, director of the Animal Protection PAC, hopes the state will prosecute the case. If officials find there are no grounds for doing so, lawmakers must draft legislation that will provide an appropriate punishment for yahoos who engage in such cowardly, inhumane conduct.
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