4 Groups Against You and Your Family’s Way of Life
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 10:53 AMTags: Anti-Gun GroupsAnti-Hunting GroupsGun BannersNJOANJOACFPro Gun News
4 Groups Against You and Your Family’s Way of Life
New Jersey Outdoor Alliance
Belmar, NJ - -(AmmoLand.com)- It’s hard to believe that we are at the mid-point of the “unofficial” summer months of June, July & August. I hope each of you is enjoying the outdoors and taking advantage of the agreeable weather.
Have you the chance to reel in a striper this year? Have you stood knee-deep in a gurgling stream while pulling in summer trout? Is the thought of a fall hunt beginning to creep into mind as you motor past the woods that hold your “lucky spot” or the fields where “man’s best friend” last pointed for pheasant?
I certainly hope so. These are the simple treasures of life and are meant to be savored.
But you must know that in 2009 several new extremist groups and the old familiar radicals are doing their best to take the pleasures of the outdoors and our family menu choices away from us.
Yes – these groups aren’t just interested in taking away our outdoor liberties – they are headed by vegans or vegetarians with a mission to foist their lifestyle on all of us.
Here is a run down of four worst of these groups.
Protecting Animal Welfare PAC (PAWPAC)
Established in January 2009 to elect animal-friendly candidates to the New Jersey Legislature and pass animal protection laws. This organization is resolved to build an animal welfare organization capable of competing with animal industries in the political arena.
* Debora Bresch, Esq., Chair, Vegan
* Kevin Moore, Treasurer, Vegan
* Kathleen Schatzmann, Legislative Liaison, Vegetarian
PETA
The animal rights group PETA wants to use the Robbins Reef lighthouse off Bayonne and two others in Michigan to publicize what it says are the horrors of killing fish for food and sport.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it wants to use the Bayonne setting as the national headquarters for its “Fish Empathy Project.” Peta is a vegetarian/vegan organization. When questioned “Why do you try to force vegetarianism on others? Isn’t it a personal choice?” Peta’s official response is “From a moral standpoint, actions that harm others are not matters of personal choice.”
ARISE
The ARISE program, created by NJ Animal Rights Alliance (anti-fishing, anti-hunting) and is headed by Stuart Chiafetz, vegan. Arise is an initiative to eliminate animal research.
NB Pet Trusts
NB Pet Trusts is committed to providing a full range of pet trust services to caring pet owners.
* Linda J. Niedweske, Esq. Represented the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance on the Watchung Reservation Deer Management Committee.
* Kevin E. Barber, Esq. Argued before the New Jersey Appellate Court against the Bear Hunt.
About:
NJOA – New Jersey Outdoor Alliance is the state’s first major political action committee devoted to the task of electing outdoor-minded candidates to public office.
NJOA has formed with the support of leaders of major pro-hunting, pro-angling, and pro-trapping organizations. We are not a hunting, fishing, or trapping “club” or “group,” and do not compete with the interests of such organizations. NJOA helps to ensure that strong wildlife and natural resource protection laws are produced by outdoor-minded elected officials. The best way to ensure a “conservation presence” in Trenton is to support the election campaigns of representatives who understand the relationship between a balanced ecology and hunting, fishing, and trapping.
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How can you claim these are extremist or radical groups? I think the protection of animal lives is something to be held up. You are the extremists for killing for unnecessary means. Why can’t you enjoy the outdoors without murdering?
Right on Kyle! I’m not familiar with most of these groups but if it’s not absolutely necessary to take another’s life (like if your own life is at risk) then to do so for sport or recreational pleasure is cruel. There are so many other ways of enjoying life.
Killing for fun is wrong – period.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) needs to be on the top of this list.
They are in no way associated with your local humane shelters and have an anti-hunting, anti-animal agriculture, vegan agenda. However, because of their name and some of their tactics they’re often seen as less radical than groups like PETA, which is scary because they share the same radical views.
Great point Chelsea!
The HSUS is apparently guilty of misleading donors and hurting the local shelters by stealing their funding. You can read more about the deceptive fund raising tactics of HSUS.
It is more honest and ethical to face the animal you are going to eat before you kill it yourself than buy it in some unrecognizable form in the grocery store killed for you by someone else.
How is killing someone (unless the alternative is them killing you) ethical?
If there are other ways to maintain good health and nutrition, but you choose to kill animals anyways, how can this be anything other than unnecessary cruelty?
Could someone please explain?
For those of you that still don’t get it. Then let me explain.
You first have to understand that animals have no rights. They are not equal to humans but are subject to human control.
Secondly in order to have healthy animal populations animals those same populations some times need to be reduced, yes this may involve killing them. This is the difference between Conservation and Preservation.
Thirdly, and the point of the article above, is hunting and fishing and animal farming for that matter is a tradition and a necessity for everyone. Our country was founded on the traditions of hunting and fishing. I will bet money that everyone of you who is questioning this lives in a suburb or city center.
The main problem with all the groups above is they put animals first over humans and they are more interested in controlling humans than helping animals.
The truth is these”anti groups” spend only a fraction of the funds they take in on helping animals. Hunting and fishing groups spend millions and millions of dollars on conservation, the environment and the well being of animal populations.
Yes they do this so there is a healthy population to hunt of fish but the overall effect is there are more, bigger and healthier wild animals today than at any point in our history.
This is directly do to Conservation, not Preservation.
So yes, Killing animals for their own preservation, done through the sport and tradition of hunting is a valid and honorable endeavor not to be put down by groups who manage people and life with feel good policy’s.
Truth & Clarity,
It’s true that animals have no rights (right now) but neither did black slaves, who were subject to white control and women, who were subject to the control of men.
Animals maintained healthy populations long before we came along. It was called survival of the fittest. The hunters I know don’t go after the weakest, they go after the biggest and healthiest.
The country was also founded on slavery and genocide of the native peoples. Cruelty, suffering and killing shouldn’t be maintained just because it’s tradition. Nor is eating animal flesh a necessity, as I haven’t had any for over ten years and my doctor says my health is just fine.
You say these groups “put animals first over humans and they are more interested in controlling humans than helping animals.” That’s an oxymoron. How can they put animals first if they’re not interested in helping animals? I don’t think these groups put animals first (I sure don’t); they do however believe it’s wrong to take life, whether that life has two legs, four legs, wings or gills.
If an injustice is being done, whether it’s to a human or non-human animal, someone should say it’s wrong. And killing innocents is wrong. How can killing ever be considered honorable?
Oh, and I’ll take that bet, as I live in a rural, agricultural area, not a suburb or city center.