Anyone catch Jon Stossel's most recent production?
One segment dealt with why the false ideal of prohibiting hunting of a species will protect it from extinction.

Worth a watch--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...x5c4&feature=related

Most interesting and most accurate. The woman looks like a total idiot.

I cannot believe that the media played that segment on TV. No question about it, if you want to preserve endangered species, they must have marketable value to the local people. Otherwise, they will be poached out of existence.


The problem is liberalism or the new aged environmentalists, who really are liberals in
disguise....they cannot tolerate hunting of any kind. They never grasp or admit freely that hunters have created the greatest conservation of all species worldwide. They have this fantasy that humanity should coexist within the animal world in a respectful, kind and loving relationship.

Personally, I am looking forward to tiger hunting. Harpoon a humpback would be pretty cool too.

Harpoon a humpback!!! LOL!

That is a good piece of film that shows the nonsensical attitude of the limp wristed liberal left. Has anybody ever asked these people what they would do for beef if somebody "a while back" hadn't started to farm an auroch or two. Who coought the first birds, sheep and goats. They were all wild before being domesticated and farmed so we would have a continueing supply. They might have been hunted to extintion otherwise. Hungry man has thought for his and his family's food for today. Greed and illegality will always flourish where there is a market.

Von Gruff

Use the phrase "wildlife that pays, stays" on any of these liberals and they'll look at you like you have two heads, but it's absolutely true.

I just hope Stossel really believes that piece. It would give me some hope in the left wing liberal media.

Thanks for posting - excellent clip. That woman is the classic "my rhetoric makes me feel morally superior to you less-evolved barbarians, so that's really all that matters" type. (And by the size of her posterior when she turned to the side, I don't think she's even walked through a zoo to look at a tiger in quite a while!)

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Originally posted by Bwanna:

I just hope Stossel really believes that piece. It would give me some hope in the left wing liberal media.

Stossel has become very libertarian-esque as he has aged, ABC has continued showing his work in spite of this.
IMHO

Great piece! Good for Stossel and the whole organization that had the belly to air it.

Mark

That was great!

A modern reporter actually reporting! I think we may have won one over from the dark side.

"An animal that pays, stays" I like that a lot.

Hunters have saved Blackwildebeest, scimitar Oryx we can now save Tigers. Man to be able to hunt a Tiger one day,,,,,,,,WOW.

Outstanding! Out-freaking-standing!

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Stossel has become very libertarian-esque as he has aged, ABC has continued showing his work in spite of this.
IMHO

Stossel has stated that he originally set out to expose all the "wrongs" that were happening, but found that, by and large, most of the hysterical hand-wringing was hot air.

I've always liked Stossel ... glad he's proving to be as objective as I thought he might be.

Good show!

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Stossel has stated that he originally set out to expose all the "wrongs" that were happening, but found that, by and large, most of the hysterical hand-wringing was hot air.

Just like John Lott did with gun control

He didn't mention the success in farming the Scimitar-horned Oryx, another endangered species.

Friend of mine who lives offshore breeds lions, jaguars, pumas, and yes, tigers. We're doing a 21 day in Tanzania, too. So conservation and hunters walk hand in hand. Kudos to Stossel.

The woman: "You didn't the Kool-Aide, did you?"

Stossel: "Yes, yes I did. I found their rgument utterly convincing."

I've had the priveledge of listening to Stossel a few times and he does indeed do his research. For some real fun, go do a search for the Stossel interview with Michael Moore. Stossel sharpened his axe a bit on that one!

Got to love him sticking it to Michael Moore!

An excellent report.

John's reporting gets AAAAA+++++ from me.

Well HOT DAMN!! Maybe there is still hope for the future.....

Thanks for posting the video DuggaBoye. Mr. Stossel get's 2 big thumbs up from me!!

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Originally posted by Eland Slayer:
Well HOT DAMN!! Maybe there is still hope for the future.....

Thanks for posting the video DuggaBoye. Mr. Stossel get's 2 big thumbs up from me!!

You are most welcome.
Here is his recent writing.

http://townhall.com/columnists...5/13/eat_the_tigers!

Stossel's always had a good common sense approach to everything. Even if I don't agree with him, his position is logical, supportable and well reasoned. A refreshing change for the usual main-stream media. He's dead on here.

I really enjoyed the part where the woman said, "you didn't drink the koolaid with the PERC people, did you?" and he unabashedly confirmed. that made me feel pretty good as a hunter.