RE: WHA Issues Response
Amazing, simply amazing. Did that individual not take the time to read the feedback we in the hunting community gave concerning their proposed venture? Nowhere in the first nine pages of posts in this particular forum do I recall major concerns about the methodology with which these deer would be drugged, or concerns about the safety therein, for that matter.
The premise behind the concept is what I saw as vile and irreprehensible; this is nothing more than a way the backers of this event see to make money -- and all the while hide behind the mantra that "this is good for the promotion of our sport."
If there's one thing I learned in my rhetoric classes while in graduate school, it was to be aware of your opponent and how he or she can use what you say to his or her advantage. There was absolutely no forethought of that whatsoever here, and if this travesty was instituted and allowed to proceed, it would provide ample fodder and ammunition for the adversary. What the promoters laud as "good for the sport" would turn into one of the biggest planks in the enemy's platform, irrespective of the fact that someone can safely drug a deer with low mortality rates.