AR-News: Letters: Anti-wolf group is pretty scary/Slaughters should be humane

[jim robertson]

Anti-wolf group is pretty scary



So Little Red Riding Hood is alive and well in Idaho. Are we really 
surprised that there were no wolf supporters in the Kooskia anti-wolf 
meeting? Voicing support for the wolf in the midst of those paranoid wolf 
haters would be like an African American showing up at a Klan meeting.


Ron Gillett says he and his hunting buddies are not an Aryan Nations of wolf 
haters. Sounds pretty similar to me. I can imagine the ugliness of a 
disemboweled elk the photos showed. If an elk is disemboweled by a hunter, 
is it a pretty sight?


About John Nelson's assertion about the DNA of the current Idaho wolves 
being different from the native Idaho wolves of the past, if my limited 
scientific knowledge is correct, I believe the DNA of all gray wolves, 
whether they are from Alaska or Europe, is identical. I would also like to 
ask the wolf haters, with all their vast scientific knowledge, is all the 
game they kill native to Idaho, or their part of Idaho?


Sounds to me like they don't like the competition. If they fail to kill 
their annual deer or elk, they have to blame something.

Marty Stitsel
Sandpoint
Sandpoint, ID

.........
Slaughters should be humane



Last week more than 400 calves were euthanized because one of them 
potentially had BSE. We were assured that they were treated in a humane 
manner, receiving sedation prior to a lethal injection. Ironically, in this 
they were the fortunate ones.


So that their flesh is not contaminated with chemicals, animals entering the 
food supply are stunned, their throats are cut, and they are skinned, all in 
a very quick sequence.


A couple of years ago a regional agricultural paper reported several 
instances of U.S. slaughterhouses failing to ensure that animals were 
stunned properly; i.e., they were being skinned alive. I was horrified to 
read not only were slaughterhouses failing inspections, but the tolerance 
level for improper procedures was not zero.


Even if a very low percentage is "allowable,'' thousands of animals each 
year die in this manner.


If the BSE issue leads to revisions in how animals live, eat and die, it 
will be a positive outcome from the ethical failure that caused this 
tragedy.

D.E. Roberts
Spokane
Spokane, WA

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news/letters.asp?date=011804&id=l18011


“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”    - 
Charles Darwin

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