The Human Society of the United States (HSUS) is being disingeuous when it encourages people to "brake for wildlife", especially when this organization has helped to create the problem in the first place.
HSUS' extreme opposition to deer hunting, for example, contributes to the 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions that occur in the United States each year. The fact is, some deer species are fantastically overpopulated, and in the absence of large carnivores, legal, regulated hunting is the only effective way to keep their numbers in check.
Drivers do not collide with deer, destroy their own vehicles and seriously injure or kill themselves or deer on purpose. On the contrary, these accidents occur because there are far too many deer in the environment.
So, until HSUS changes their short-sighted policies and recognizes that control of deer populations by hunting is necessary in our modern world, then both people and deer will continue to suffer as the result of violent collisions on our streets and highways and we will all continue to pay considerably higher car insurance bills. This hardly advances either animal or human welfare!
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Posted on May 2 at 2:10 p.m.
The Human Society of the United States (HSUS) is being disingeuous when it encourages people to "brake for wildlife", especially when this organization has helped to create the problem in the first place.
HSUS' extreme opposition to deer hunting, for example, contributes to the 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions that occur in the United States each year. The fact is, some deer species are fantastically overpopulated, and in the absence of large carnivores, legal, regulated hunting is the only effective way to keep their numbers in check.
Drivers do not collide with deer, destroy their own vehicles and seriously injure or kill themselves or deer on purpose. On the contrary, these accidents occur because there are far too many deer in the environment.
So, until HSUS changes their short-sighted policies and recognizes that control of deer populations by hunting is necessary in our modern world, then both people and deer will continue to suffer as the result of violent collisions on our streets and highways and we will all continue to pay considerably higher car insurance bills. This hardly advances either animal or human welfare!
On Wildlife Deserve a “Brake”