Arkansas Hunting is Being Threatened

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Arkansas Hunting is Being Threatened

A group of animal rights activists based in Little Rock, Arkansas known as Citizens for a Humane Arkansas have engineered a proposed Animal Cruelty Act that jeopardizes waterfowlers, and anyone else that uses animals in the State.

Andy Miller, associate director of governmental affairs for the Farm Bureau in Little Rock, is very concerned about the Act, called Initiated Act 1,”the proposed bill is potentially extremely harmful to animal agriculture, and hunting and fishing, two of the largest industries in Arkansas.”

Arkansans will vote on the proposed bill on Nov.5 and from Delta’s perspective, the hope is that citizens will vote no. Rob Olson, Delta’s Director of U.S. Operations says, “Delta Waterfowl, hunters and farmers support animal welfare and the need to prevent abuse and neglect of animals, but this ballot initiative is not about stopping animal abuse – existing laws already address that problem – long-term, it’s about stopping animal USE.”

The national animal rights groups behind the Animal Cruelty Bill are the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), based in Washington, D.C.; PETA, based in Norfolk, Virginia; The Fund For Animal and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), based in New York.

Wayne Pacelle, Senior Vice-President of the HSUS makes no bones about the ultimate agenda of their group and the ballot initiatives they support (HSUS contributed $25,000 to Citizens for a Humane Arkansas),” only 7% of Americans are hunters. That means there are more of us than there are of them. It is simply a matter of democracy. The majority rules in a democracy. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United State.” (Full Cry, October 1990)

If waterfowling is to survive long-term, hunters need to prove HSUS wrong and show up at the ballot box and speak with their vote. Clearly, all groups interested in securing the future of animal use will need to join forces to oppose animal rights zealots such as HSUS and PETA.

Peter Trexler, Senior Vice-President of Delta Waterfowl agrees,” if we are to hang on to our collective rural heritage, be it sitting in a duck blind with our families, or tending to our livestock, folks like the Farm Bureau and Delta Waterfowl will need to stick together, that’s why we signed on to the growing coalition opposing this Bill.”

Please inform your friends and colleagues of the vote on Nov.5 for this impending ballot initiative – Initiated Act 1 – the Arkansas Animal Cruelty Act and vote NO. For more information contact, Rodney Baker or Andy Miller, Arkansans For Responsible Animal Laws, 10720 Kanis Rd., Little Rock.

Visit Delta Waterfowl's Website for more information:
http://www.deltawaterfowl.org

[Wildfowler]

Well I hope that DW will put up a few billboards or something that will help stymie that groups efforts.

[DuckyDan]

Can I come over there and vote??? hahahha I WISH I COULD!

I'd like to get every one of those PETA people, gather them up, handcuff them, and shove a big old juicy ribeye soaked in Dale's down their throat! They'd change their attitude then! People like that P!$$ me off! They act like killing an animal is the same as killing a human. They don't stop to realize that humans are just like every other animal. We were created to eat other things. Are they going to go around persecuting lions, tigers, and bears because they eat other animals? They hunt. They're animals. What's the difference? Bears are not strictly carnivores; they are omnivores just like we are. They don't NEED meat, but they eat it because they like it. PETA wants to protect them and do away with us! Is it just me or is this a little stupid. These idiots who think they are "protecting" the animals while they're off hugging trees in the woods are too stupid to realize that getting rid of hunters would cost the government more money to control populations of wildlife! You can't just let populations run wild with no form of control. Not now with agriculture booming like it is and as little habitat that is left. Animals will overpopulate, get disease, and more will die than need to and then, they will become endangered! These animal rights people think they have it all figured out. Actually they're just ill all of the time because those trees they've been "hugging" among other things have splinters!!!!

[NOHERE]

well we need to do everything we can to stop these idiots.

look at the future- sci- fi future- it s the year 2020 hunting has been legaly stopped for some time, but since our money funds most of the wildlife programs and game wardens and anyone else that may "police" us, where will they be, and who in the **** will stop us (being me and you) from doing what we enjoy????

hunting and fishing is too much big business for it to be banned, i dont ever think it will, but if it is.... i still do it till the day i die........

just a thought

[crow]

As they say in MS, vote early and vote often!

[hotty toddy]

I think these people thinking that only 7% of U.S. citizens hunt are making a bad miscalculation. They dont figure in that 7%'s spouses and friends that dont hunt but that dont think hunting is wrong.

Maybe it is just in the south (MS, AL, LA, AR, etc...) but I am willing to bet that well more than 50% of the people in this region as well as others in this country support hunting or atleast wouldnt vote against us.

They wont make me stop hunting. You can take that to the bank.

I really dont like all these tree huggers and I believe there kind could be the downfall of our great way of life unless we form a strong front and stop them soon.

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Well, if hunting is ever banned by these lunatics, then I will just choose to personally secede from the Union, hopefully joined by those other heavily armed citizens comprising 7% of the population. I will buy my own land, become my own country, and hunt as I please. May even open up a PETA season, with no limits.

[Anatidae]

........'spoken like a true 'Southerner' there, Old Bufflehead.

[peewee]

Ole Bufflehead, I would buy a Peta hunt on your property anyday. Heck I might even buy 10 or tags.