As a God fearing, nature loving person I have a duty to protect all things that walk. The best way to insure that populations are not stressed to starvation and animals die miserable deaths is to hunt. I do feel sad when I take an animals life, but I also feel an overwhelming sense of respect for the animal and pride in myself for taking such a wonderful animal. A person who never hunts cannot understand or appreciate the love and respect a sportsman has for nature. I spend 365 days a year outside, and venture into the woods at least once a day. Do you? I feed wildlife when woods and fields get dry and food is sparse. Do you? I harvest it to control the population when wild creatures begin to thrive too well. And I eat or use everything I harvest.

We as humans, you and I, have done something terrible to the environment, we've encroached on the wilds of this world, removed the trees, built our houses, driven our cars. We buy our food from huge commercial grocers who in turn buy it from huge commercial farms that have stripped the land for farming and put pesticides into our mother earth. I contend that the deaths you cause by living here on earth are many more than the deaths I cause with a well placed shot.

You see, it's the human race’s encroachment into the wilds of this country that killed out the grizzly in the lower 48, ran cougars from their homes forcing them to choose for food humans and domestic animals, and forced wolves to the farthest reaches of the lower 48. We as a human race have destroyed all but one predator and that predator is humankind itself. Fortunately for the non-hunting among us our survival as a race is no longer dependent upon our ability to hunt and gather. You see we are the first animals to come into the world and not have to live out-of-doors. We can reason, understand, and build. We can think, build rockets and travel to the moon and beyond. Nature made us king, it allowed us the brains to invent weapons, build cars, wreck rain forests. It's a shame Nature didn't give most of us the ability to care about what those choices really mean.

I ask you this as a non-hunter, what have you done in the last year to improve the plight of ducks because of loss of breeding grounds, and control the overabundance and starvation of deer in urban areas? How many parks and preserves have your sales tax dollars funded? Every time I go to the store and buy ammo or fishing lures or any of a number of products for outdoor use I benefit wildlife. What do you do? When was the last time PETA or ALF or any of the other animal rights groups did anything but help a bunch of animals starve? Their heart is in the right place, it's  just behind the wrong cause, there is no greater lover of nature and helper of all
things wild than a sportsman.

As to your question about animals hunting me, it happens every time I step in the woods I take the chance of a snakebite, being charged by and cut by a hog, but because of the destruction you as a human helped to cause I don't get to feel the adrenaline pump as I'm hunted by a bear, or followed by wolves, to do that I'm forced to fly to Alaska. It's time you folks figure out who the real destroyer of nature is and rally behind us, the sportsmen, to limit the destruction of the land developer, and other dangerous folks.

By: Steve Moody "Author of "Hog Hunting In South Texas"
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