Post by Woody Williams on Jan 29, 2006 9:57:17 GMT -5
From the Evansville Courier and Press...
Speak up; canned hunting isn't right
By STEVE FORD, Staff writer
January 22, 2006
You'd think the Indiana legislature would pay attention to the majority of Hoosier sportsmen. But no.
There's a group within the Indiana house, which somehow calls itself the Natural Resources Committee, that wants to pass a bill - HB 1329 - supportive of high-fence hunting.
The majority of Indiana sportsmen have come out against canned hunting or shooting deer or other cervids like elk in enclosures for profit. Make that huge profits. There are legitimate health issues with chronic wasting disease in addition to the ethical question. It's just not hunting. Period.
A newly-former group called the Fair Chase Hunting Alliance (which includes the Indiana Wildlife Federation, Indiana Bow Hunters Association, Indiana Deer Hunters Association, Izaak Walton League, Pheasants Forever, Sportsman's Roundtable and the Indiana Chapter of the Wildlife Society) supports a proposed Indiana Department of Natural Resources rule that would ban all canned hunts.
Let your representative know how you feel. HB 1349 is money talking from a very small, but well-financed minority. Its special interest does not coincide with the interests of the majority of Hoosier sportsmen and must be stopped. Period.
Speak up; canned hunting isn't right
By STEVE FORD, Staff writer
January 22, 2006
You'd think the Indiana legislature would pay attention to the majority of Hoosier sportsmen. But no.
There's a group within the Indiana house, which somehow calls itself the Natural Resources Committee, that wants to pass a bill - HB 1329 - supportive of high-fence hunting.
The majority of Indiana sportsmen have come out against canned hunting or shooting deer or other cervids like elk in enclosures for profit. Make that huge profits. There are legitimate health issues with chronic wasting disease in addition to the ethical question. It's just not hunting. Period.
A newly-former group called the Fair Chase Hunting Alliance (which includes the Indiana Wildlife Federation, Indiana Bow Hunters Association, Indiana Deer Hunters Association, Izaak Walton League, Pheasants Forever, Sportsman's Roundtable and the Indiana Chapter of the Wildlife Society) supports a proposed Indiana Department of Natural Resources rule that would ban all canned hunts.
Let your representative know how you feel. HB 1349 is money talking from a very small, but well-financed minority. Its special interest does not coincide with the interests of the majority of Hoosier sportsmen and must be stopped. Period.
