ORIGINAL: PA Hardwoods
Nature Takes Care of Its Own
The delicate balance of ecosystems ensures their own survival—if they are left unaltered. Natural predators help maintain this balance by killing only the sickest and weakest individuals. Hunters, however, kill any animal whom they would like to hang over the fireplace—including large, healthy animals who are needed to keep the population strong. Elephant poaching is believed to have increased the number of tuskless animals in Africa, and in Canada, hunting has caused bighorn sheep’s horn size to fall by 25 percent in the last 40 years; Nature magazine reports that “the effect on the populations’ genetics is probably deeper.”(17)
Even when unusual natural occurrences cause overpopulation, natural processes work to stabilize the group. Starvation and disease can be tragic, but they are nature’s ways of ensuring that healthy, strong animals survive and maintain the strength level of the rest of their herd or group. Shooting an animal because he or she might starve or become sick is arbitrary and destructive.
This is one of my favorites. What a bunch of BS!!!! I guess they would rather watch these animals die of starvation and diseases than take a broadhead to the lungs that is all over in 15 seconds!! I know if it were me me that was starving and disease stricken, I'd take the short and painless.
Oh and the fact that the "Natural Predators ONLY kill the sickest and weakest individuals" is far from fact. If any of them had ever gotten out of the PETA office and driven down a road they might realize this. Or maybe we should show them how the year before wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone the Elk Heard was over 14,000 head. Last year the Wyoming Game and Fish reported that the population was near 9,000. So does that mean that 35.7% of that entire heard was sick or weak? That may be the biggest bunch of $h!t I've ever heard.[:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]
Finally, look at their list of sources, some of them have completely been taken out of context and "translated" to fit into the doctrine of these sick fanatics.[:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]