Backdoor anti attack on hunting in pa !!!
TAKEN FROM ANTIHUNTING WEBSITE:
"Neanderthals stalked and killed animals for food during the Ice Age … and they still do it today for “SPORT.” Just about every wild animal that is not endangered or threatened is hunted or trapped in the state of Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, the death toll for the 1996-97 hunting and trapping season was 5,945,116 animals. This does not include countless millions who die, e.g. : "small game" species such as rabbits, gophers, and muskrats whose death tolls are not required to be reported, animals who are wounded but run away and die a lingering death, and animals who are inadvertently trapped and released with mortal wounds.
Hunters and trappers have way too much power over wildlife in Pennsylvania and other states where they comprise less than *9% of the state population. The reasons for their power over wildlife reside in an archaic funding structure.
State wildlife agencies like the PA Game Commission receive their funding from the sale of hunting/trapping permits and funds from the Pittman-Robertson taxes on firearms and ammunition. If the funding structure was changed to include public funds, then strategies for the treatment of wildlife would reflect the views and concerns of all residents rather than just the cruel lethal management techniques of hunters and trappers. State wildlife agencies would become truly public agencies rather then “special interest groups for blood sports” if their funding structure was reformed"
http://www.mobilizationforanimals.org/stophunting.html
As it just so happens, Some borderline antihunters and hardcore antis are trying to push through a bill based on the marcellus shale gas tax as one source of "alternate" funding. This needs to be stopped! Pa is already one of the highest funded states in the nation using HUNTING LICENSE funding as well as resources from hunter paid for lands.
Please contact your legislator and tell them to vote NO on house bill 1489 and any other looking to use public tax funding for our game commission!
Last edited by Cornelius08; 09-30-2009 at 04:56 PM.