As stated in the title, the article supports sport hunting with statistics and defends the recently attacked female hunters.

The article can be found here:
http://nypost.com/2014/07/14/t...s-on-female-hunters/

great article, thanks for sharing!

Classic comment at the bottom reflecting the mind set of the anti....

"As the Supreme Court has made abundantly clear, we lack a legal, cultural, and moral consensus on who what constitutes a person. Simply stating "animals aren't people" isn't an argument -- it's an opinon. For your opinion to compellingly advance a positon, you need to muster arguments in support of it.

"A great deal has been written in recent decades by moral philosophers on the question of who is -- and who is not a person. Are animals persons? If so, which ones and by what standard of determination? What about fetuses? Would a sentient computer program that had a capacity to experience emotions be a person? Philosophers treat these as serious questions worthy of serious consideration. But the easist way to overcome a chalenging argument is to state a conclusion that contradicts it, not actually addres the argument that runs counter to yours, and hope no one notices -- which is exactly what the author does here."

I wonder how Annie Oakley would handle this ? She had the habit of suing every newspaper that published a lie about her.

This opinion piece by Tim Blair has appeared in Australia's Daily Telegraph.



JUST two weeks ago, Axelle Despiegelaere was an unknown but extremely photogenic teenager cheering for her Belgian countrymen during a World Cup match against Russia. Images of Despiegelaere became an online sensation, quickly leading to the offer of a modelling contract from makeup giant L’Oreal. So far, so good for the 17-year-old.

Then something terrible happened. Despiegelaere revealed she was a hunting enthusiast, posting a shot of herself with a gazelle bagged in Africa a year or so ago.

It wasn’t as though she’d butchered a polar bear or taken down a mountain gorilla. Gazelles are not exactly among the planet’s most endangered species.

They’re basically a kind of African land-carp, swarming around the place to no great purpose except as targets for hungry carnivores. And Belgian teenagers.

Online enthusiasm immediately turned to revulsion. Shocked that their new star had killed an animal, L’Oreal ended Despiegelaere’s contract after just a few days. She didn’t even make it as far as the World Cup final.

Welcome to the new squeamishness, which decries any behaviour outside of the timid urban mainstream.

You can probably survive as a public figure if you only eat meat, provided it’s been slaughtered far away by unknown hands. But actually offing a beast yourself is apparently unacceptable.

It’s like living under a global government run by screaming Balmain vegans. Despiegelaere isn’t the first victim of our new-found nancification. Back in 2008, former US vice-presidential candidate and Alaskan governor Sarah Palin gave a Thanksgiving television interview during which she stood in front of an operating turkey processing plant.

US cable news network MSNBC led the outrage, running these captions during their coverage of the terrifying incident:

* TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA

* GOV. SARAH KEEPS TALKING WHILE TURKEYS GET SLAUGHTERED BEHIND HER

* GOV. PALIN APPARENTLY OBLIVIOUS TO TURKEY CARNAGE OVER HER SHOULDER

Some news channels actually pixelated the footage, so shocking was it judged to be.

This happened in a nation that eats more than 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving and more than 220 million in any given year.

Show even a hint of the process leading to that consumption, however, and Los Angeles Times columnist Elizabeth Snead — among many others — hyperventilated that “at least two helpless turkeys are being slaughtered alive in the background”.

“Slaughtered alive” was an interesting choice of words.

Have you ever heard of anything being “slaughtered dead”?

Of course, Australia isn’t immune to Trembly McHandflap Syndrome.

Just two years ago, Olympic swimmers Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk found themselves in trouble after visiting a US shop and taking photographs of themselves with some merchandise.

The problem for the pair was that it was a gun shop, and the merchandise some impressive firearms. The guns weren’t loaded. They weren’t being fired at anything. There wasn’t even a dead turkey in the frame.

Yet outrage was immediate.

“It’s a disgrace to the Olympic swimming team,’’ howled Gun Control Australia spokesman John Crook.

“I doubt they have the moral sensitivity to be concerned about human suffering.”

Er … what human suffering? The athletes were just standing there with a couple of weapons. Fury over D’Arcy and Monk ran for several days, until everybody eventually remembered that Australia had a 17-member Olympic shooting team. There was also the inconvenient fact that more Australians die in swimming pools than are shot.
If people want some genuine animal or violence controversy, I suggest they be photographed in front of a wind turbine.

These rotating monsters grind up thousands of birds with frightening efficiency. They seem to have a powerful appetite for rare and endangered birdlife, too.

“The white-throated needletail isn’t seen very often in the UK. In fact, the bird, which is the world’s fastest flying bird, hasn’t been spotted in Britain since 1991,” read one news report from last year.

“That’s why it was such a treat for birdwatchers when the rare bird showed up today in Northumberland.

“Unfortunately, the sighting was cut short when the bird flew into a wind turbine.”

So long, needletail. Last week it emerged that American solar thermal plants might be even more bloodthirsty than the notorious turbines.

These facilities use the sun’s reflected heat to generate power. They also cook birds.

“They are literally being burned alive, in midair,” Slate reported.

“When birds flew into the hottest areas, observers saw them emit streams of smoke from their feathers.”

Other birds mistake solar panels for water.

“Grebes, herons, ducks, and even pelicans, died not from the heat but from blunt force trauma … these birds — tired from flying over the hot desert — home in on what looks like a calm lake but instead crash into hard panels. They either die instantly or, as researchers found, lie helpless for land-based predators.”

Let’s hope nobody working at a wind turbine plant or a solar thermal facility has a contract with L’Oreal.

The company just couldn’t bear the scandal.

good story

Bravo New York Post!

It is a good article. I just now used the links at the bottom to repost it on Twitter and Facebook.

You might consider doing the same to spread the word.

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Welcome to the new squeamishness, which decries any behaviour outside of the timid urban mainstream.

What a great quote.

Outstanding article! I'm reposting it around the net.