The following hunting misconceptions are directly from PeTA's website. If you hunt, you'll see the fallacy. If not, then you might be interested in the other side or the story as well.

In 3 back to back sentences, PeTA suggests leaving animals alone and controlling their natural fertility.

• "Quickly killing an animal in the wild is much less cruel than factory farming. However, it ignores that animals' basic right to be left alone to lead their own lives. If our real concern is to keep animals from starving, we should not hunt, but take steps to reduce the animals' fertility." PeTA's website 07/28/98 http://www.peta-online.org/faq/hunt.html

Georgia has tried to DECREASE the her deer heard for the last 10 years. Georgia maintains her levels through deer harvest only, (Usually by allowing more does/females to be taken), However, PeTA states,

• "Actually, many deer herds and duck populations are carefully managed (artificially manipulated) to produce more and more animals for hunters to kill."PeTA's website 07/28/98 http://www.peta-online.org/faq/hunt.html

Here's another PeTA fantasy from their website:

• "If for some unusual reason it should be necessary for the animals to be shot, sharpshooters should be employed. Sharpshooters are more likely to kill the animals quickly, not just wound them, and would choose those who seemed ill or in pain, not just shoot randomly."PeTA's website 07/28/98 http://www.peta-online.org/faq/hunt.html

Hiring of sharpshooters to control deer population is excessively costly. Sharpshooters are paid by the hour with a bonus paid to the quantity that they kill. A sharpshooters ONLY goal is to lower populations quickly, that's what they are hired to do. He/she will be paid the same for killing does, bucks and fawns while spotlighting them at night.

PeTA fails to state the source of their "studies" in this quote. Since PeTA fails to hunt, how do they know these statistics? Where do they come from? Who's doing the estimating? What knowledgeable person said this?

• "It is estimated that for every animal a hunter kills and recovers, at least two wounded but unrecovered animals die slowly and painfully of blood loss, infection, or starvation."PeTA's website 07/28/98 http://www.peta-online.org/faq/hunt.html

Personally, I've harvested nearly 50 deer in my life. I have failed to recover 2. This gives me a 4% failed recovery ratio. PeTA claims the average failed recovery ratio is higher than 66%! With these statistics, I am either a "Super-Hunter/Demi-God/TV Hunting Show Host" type guy

............or.............

PeTA is telling a damn lie!

But then again, what else is new? I'm sorry ya'll, I just can't stand a damn liar.

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