Please do not associate me with PeTA. In fact I think Peta acts the same as the recreational hunting communities because they too believe killing animals is "saving" animals when we know that is totally bogus and wrong. Of course Peta does not cause intentional pain and suffering that sports hunters do but overall a true conservationist do not resort to killing animals to "save" animals and neither does a true ARA which Peta does.

I am pretty informed when it comes to the subject of recreational hunting and I have heard just about hunting excuses there is. I live in the area where I would consider "deer country" and we do have bowhunting but still the deer abundance are never ending. As much as I love these creatures I rather see less then too many and be slaughtered for "sports" and I believe that the hunting communities creates these large deer herd for the purpose of sports hunting.

You can also visit my blogger.

http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=17

My profile photos is the 2 of many deer that lives around my house.They are mother and son who is still stay together and from what I observe with deer they love life and are sentient being.

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"I define cruelty as the deliberate infliction of suffering upon a sentient creature . That hunting is cruel is uncontestable. There is ample scientific evidence that all mammals experience, stress, terror, shock, anxiety, fear, trauma, foreboding, as well as physical pain. It is also deliberate in that those who hunt do so with the express aim of pursuing a creature to its death. Not all may witness the death, but those who participate can be in no doubt about the result, at least, for most of the hunted species. But cruelty is not just an intrinsically objectionable act; it is a token of moral meanness; a practical example of our failure to live generously after the example of Jesus. There is, as Cardinal Newman indicated, something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power [and] who have weapons neither of offence or defence . And he concludes his consideration of the Christ-like innocence of animals with this appeal: Think, then, my brethren of your feelings at cruelty practised on brute animals, and you will gain one sort of feeling which the history of Christs Cross and Passion ought to excite within you. If Gods power in Christ was manifest in acts of sacrifical love, and a special solicitude exhibited towards the poor, weak and vulnerable, should not our power be so similarly directed?" Anonymous

3 things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the Truth. ~ Buddah