SAVE
THE WOLVES
We all are asked to sign many petitions every day to save
animals. Are they effective? I have my
doubts. So many of them are to stop the Wildlife Services from culling wolves,
bobcats, coyotes, foxes, wild horses, and the list goes on. Every year millions
of these animals are killed by the Wildlife Services.
The Wildlife Services was founded in 1895 as part of the Dept.
of Agriculture. (USDA) It was first called Animal Damage Control and in 1997
changed its name to Wildlife Services.
Just the fact that it is part of the USDA should tell everyone what its
objectives are. Its mission is to
protect the health and value of American agriculture. It is used to eradicate every other species
that competes or poses a threat to animal agriculture.
In 2013, all at taxpayer funding, it killed 4 million
animals. In 2014, it killed 2.7 million
animals. All this killing is funded by
US taxpayers whether we want it or not.
Representative Peter DeFazio said “Wildlife Services is one of the most
opaque and least accountable agencies that I know of in the federal government,
outside of highly classified programs. They are a world unto themselves. And
that’s a world we are not allowed to see into.”
Tom Knudson,
from Reveal, reports the Wildlife Services kills about 225 coyotes a day and gases
coyote pups in their dens. Millions of innocent animals are killed by mistake.
Family pets, eagles, herons, cranes, etc. are among the victims. All these
deaths are paid for by our tax dollars.
So why are
they doing this? It’s simple. Animal agriculture views wild horses, wolves,
coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, etc. as competition to their profits. Animal agriculture needs their land for their
animals. Animal agriculture uses over half of the land in the US for livestock.
This land is used to raise their animals and feed for their animals. 349
million acres are used for feed and 788 million acres are used for raising
livestock. In contrast, only 3million
acres are used for raising vegetables.
Another interesting aspect of this discussion
is that public lands (our national parks) are used by ranchers for grazing
their animals. Ranchers pay next to nothing for this service and they pay
nothing for the Wildlife Services program.
This to me is welfare.
Most Americans will never hear about this
program. It’s meant to operate in the
shadows. Animal agriculture propaganda
wants people to think predators kill millions of livestock. In actuality, predators kill very few farmed
animals. When you think about how farmed
animals are raised now, how can they even get at them? Most farmed animals are
raised in factory farms. They are kept indoors, crammed into small barns,
hardly any room to move, and never get to see the light of day. Even cattle raised outside are crammed as
close together as possible. Predators
have very little chance to attack livestock.
Animal agriculture wants you to want to destroy these animals, just to
increase their profits.
Animal agriculture, food industries, and pharmaceuticals
are the largest lobbyists in Washington. That is why we never hear much
negativity about these industries. Even though animal agriculture is the number
one cause of greenhouse gases, water usage, water pollution, rainforest
destruction, and species extinction, most Americans will never hear of this.
Money controls our government and what it tells its citizens. Big Pharma has a
big stake in animal agriculture because it pumps 80% of its antibiotics into
farmed animals. These antibiotics are used to grow animals bigger faster, and
to make it more profitable to cram so many animals into small spaces.
One of Japan’s largest industry is fishing. The
Japanese government tells its people that dolphins, sharks, and whales are over
populating the oceans and eating all the fish. It encourages people to kill
dolphins in blood baths like Taiji. Japan is even trying to push this on the
United Nations so it can hunt whales again. We know the main cause of the fish
population reduction is over fishing, but the people of Japan believe their
government and think dolphins are the problem. That is how propaganda works. That
is how it is working in America.
The most effective way we can save our wildlife
is to go vegan. We need to put animal
agriculture out of business. It is destroying our planet. We are healthier not
eating animal products, so why do it?
Instead of spreading and signing petitions, actually do something to
help—Go Vegan.
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