PETA Calls on City to Ban Bowhunting
Prince George, B.C. – Animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is calling on the City of Prince George to ban bowhunting.
PETA sent a letter to the city this week expressing its strong opposition to the practice. It was penned by Kent Stein, a cruelty caseworker with the organization.
“Bow hunting is among the cruellest forms of killing, with bow hunters routinely spending hours tracking the blood trails of wounded animals. Many victims are lost and their deaths are slow and agonizing,” the letter reads.
“It can take weeks for some to perish, and our office routinely hears of deer wandering neighbourhoods with arrows protruding from their bodies—a sight that is always deeply upsetting to residents.”
Stein notes that killing also fails to control unwanted animal populations and actually backfires.
“This is because when animals are killed (or otherwise removed from an area), the resultant spike in the food supply prompts accelerated breeding among survivors and inevitable newcomers, with populations then increasing,” says Stein.
“Effective deer management plans are adaptive and integrated, the key being strictly enforced wildlife feeding prohibitions along with habitat modification, e.g., exclusion and deterrents in landscaped areas, along forest edges, and in restoration and riparian corridors.”
Stephanie Bell, a director with PETA’s cruelty investigations department, says the group was tipped off about the issue by a concerned citizen in the Prince George area.
“It’s time for cruel conditions to change. There are many things that people used to do that we don’t consider acceptable anymore,” she says.
“And generally speaking, people should care about the animals in our communities, we share our communities with them.”
All of this after the city confirmed this week it has received three complaints about bowhunting this year. Mayor Lyn Hall also met with the Spruce City Wildlife Association (SCWA) to discuss the issue last week.
Following the meeting, director Steve Hamilton told 250News the group is planning an education campaign to better inform the public about the rules which govern the activity.
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And the snowball keeps rolling and getting bigger………..
it still hasn’t been proven the deer was shot withing city limits… it could well have been shot elsewhere and wandered into town…
but I guess everyone has to get in on the act.
and yes bow and arrow use with int eh city can be dangerous, but so can pellet guns and slings shots and I haven’t heard anyone complaining about those.
Yeah, and those cows and chickens in Save-On lived full and happy lives…
Bow hunting in city limits….hmmm, good idea? No.
As much as bow hunting is for rednecks and doesn’t belong in City limits, PETA is a nonsensical borderline terror organization.
This guy sounds like a goof. Absolutely no education on bow hunting. dumbass
Peta are al Trudeau voters
I support PETA.. “People Eating Tasty Animals”
Jokes aside.. If your going to ban bow hunting in City limits it has to be done at a practicable zoned approach.. Banning it in condensed neighborhoods & populous makes sense for obvious safety and ethical reasons (if it hasn’t already been done.) Banning bow hunting in rural parts of city limits on open anchorage is ridiculous. Even if a by-law was passed banning it good luck enforcing it. By-laws aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
Oh and the bleeding hearts show up from everywhere. Bet ya he’s a “vegan”. He probably thinks chickens shouldn’t have to lay eggs either.
I am calling on PETA to take all the money it spends on animals and use it to help humans.
Recently a very experienced US dentist bow hunter went to Africa on one of his safaris and shot an arrow into a lion which was a tourist attraction. The story made the news worldwide. After the lion had been shot it disappeared and could not be located until the next day. It was found a long distance away and it took many hours to die a painful death.
Bow hunting is a cruel and archaic killing method, as is the so-called bullfighting in Spain. They are not sports.
Bow hunting should be banned within city limits, better yet it should be banned altogether.
To all those who squeal and whine against PETA or the idea that banning bow hunting within the city, why don’t we stick a couple of arrows into your carcasses and let you stagger around till you croak.
Summit, rednecks, really?
The best part about peta is their protest activity.
Beyond that, they are just more urban (urbane), pastey vegans.
Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2015 @ 9:11 AM by Krusty with a score of -5
To all those who squeal and whine against PETA or the idea that banning bow hunting within the city, why don’t we stick a couple of arrows into your carcasses and let you stagger around till you croak.
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Are you a Vegan? If not, statements like this are extremely hypocritical.
Hey you Vegans.. Plants have feelings too..Nobody is fighting for them. At least animals have a chance to run away. End the suffering..!
Wonder what is Peta stand on the wolf cull. Wolfs chowing down on moose while the moose is still alive.
What is Peta’s stand on police dogs? These dogs being purposely put in harms way.
Hunting Game is a personnel Choice and is Legal, so if you don’t like Hunting then don’t!
What find find strange about this is that peta as fanatical in there persuades as Isis. And that they have been loosing there credibility for years. We are a North community and for the most part we are hunters in Prince George. As far as archery being one of the cruelest forms of killing an animal. I can say from personal experience it kills faster and more humanely than most rifle killed animals.
However bowhunting in city limits is as sensible endeavour as playing baseball or going to a skate park.
With the amount of land within our cities limits there is room for all users.
This concerned citizen who called really seem not to want to embrace our northern roots. Which include hunting and fishing and trapping in all its forms. I for one will not let this community forget the Mr. Skakun is trying to take away a person right to feed his family and himself.
Before people jump on the band wagon with PETA you might want to google them and find out what their all about. Everyone has Skeleton’s in the closet and after you read what they have done, I’m sure you would not want to hang your hat on their cause. People should gather the facts about Bow hunting before you organize a lynching party.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have been described as “by far the most successful radical organization in America.” The key word is radical. PETA seeks “total animal liberation,” according to its president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but it also means no aquariums, no circuses, no hunting or fishing, no fur or leather, and no medical research using animals. PETA is even opposed to the use of seeing-eye dogs.
In the past, PETA has handled the press for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a violent, underground group of fanatics who plant firebombs in restaurants, destroy butcher shops, and torch research labs. The FBI considers ALF among America’s most active and prolific terrorist groups, but PETA compares it to the Underground Railroad and the French Resistance. More than 20 years after its inception, PETA continues to hire convicted ALF militants and funds their legal defense. In at least one case, court records show that Ingrid Newkirk herself was involved in ALF arson.
PETA has even begun to adopt the tactics of an ALF offshoot known as SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty). This group is notorious for taking protests outside the boardroom and into the living room, attacking their targets at their homes.
http://www.activistfacts.com
Seamutt, you might be a redneck if you think bow hunting belongs in city limits. Sorry!
“Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2015 @ 9:11 AM by Krusty with a score of -5
To all those who squeal and whine against PETA or the idea that banning bow hunting within the city, why don’t we stick a couple of arrows into your carcasses and let you stagger around till you croak.”
Oh Krusty…this is why you can’t have nice things. You’re just not smart enough!
Hunting is not a sport, it’s an activity.. How can anything be called a sport when the opponent doesn’t know it’s playing ?
Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2015 @ 11:42 AM by P Val with a score of 3
Hunting is not a sport, it’s an activity.. How can anything be called a sport when the opponent doesn’t know it’s playing ?
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Works for the Maple Leafs.
Hey summit can you read a map. Have a look at area the city covers. Lots of rural land in there. Sorry your comment comes not knowing the subject.
bow hunting just like hunting with a rifle. It takes a lot of practice in order to make clean ethical kills. A bow is not an archaic method of hunting. There is a lot of technology in bows now and the same with broadheads. Trust me a 3″ hole punched through the heart and lungs at 330fps + shits going to die fast. Won’t even know what happend. Maybe people should educate yourselfs
Exactly my thought Seamutt, And as far as peta is concerned, they don,t qualify as a charitable or a tax free organization, because of their terrorist designation. In Canada, CSIS regards them as a threat to the safety of Canadian ,s . In the U.S., the they are regarded as a terrorist organization.
I do not care what implements are used to hunt, hunting is not a land use which should be allowed within the confines of a city irrespective of the land base of the city.
Why do people feel it is necessary to hunt in the city limits? Are they too lazy to drive outside the city limits?
If animals need to be culled, and the conservation officer thinks hunters should assist in that endeavor, then train them and license them for the purpose with all that it takes to respect property rights, safety and ethical hunting methods for what might be relatively tame animals. Finally, donate all the meat and the license fees collected to charitable organizations that work in the City of PG.
BTW, anyone can tell an animal is wounded when an arrow is sticking out from its body.
It is not quite that easy to spot an animal with a bullet or two lodged in its flesh from a wound which it may survive or eventually lie down and die.
As someone posted earlier, just because one bans bow hunting does not mean that people will not continue the practice.
By the same token, just because firearms are not slowed to be fired within city limits does not mean that people don’t and that on occasion they do so to kill a wild animal, a domestic animal, a person, or fire a warning shot or do target practice with beer bottles.
Remember, as is often said, it is a large city.
Meh, just let people do bow hunting and stuff out in Pineview and the Hart. It keeps them away from civilized people.
Summit you must have a high opinion of yourself. Most likely have mirrors all over your house.
gopg2015 do you have any idea of the rural vastness inside the city limits?
Compare the rural area of PG with rural property in Alberta where hunting with any legal weapon is allowed after getting property owner permission. Surprisingly Alberta is somewhat short of public land that is huntable compared to BC. I have been all over Alberta hunting and it is mostly taken up by private farm land except for the far north and parks.
Much rural land in PG city limits, I have hiked most of it. Off the end of Domano for one example is a huge area of rural land.
Hunting for those that care, free range organic protein. Following first nations traditions.
Seamutt, I guarantee gopg2015 has an idea of the vastness of the area inside City Limits.
Im betting his real name rhymes with Fryin’ Bacon.
Everything gopg2015 says is right on par with that agenda being pushed forward.
Emotion over science.
Dawg, I’ll bet the whole farm that gopg2015 is not councillor Fryin’ Bacon.
I don’t have any problem with hunting for food. My son hunts and my dad hunted and if he didn’t we didn’t eat meat. What I have a problem with is the unnecessary pain an animal might suffer as the result of stupid, incompetent bow hunters (or rifle hunters, for that matter) who wound an animal without taking it out in a quick, clean manner. If there are avid and ethical hunters out there who support causing an animal unnecessary pain, speak up.
As for Axman’s comment about the Leafs – way too effin’ funny!
Right there with yuh, Krusty.
And Axman, after I picked my self up off the floor, I thought about Peta. They’re all about city folks and suburbia talk’in through the other end.
They as an organization, don’t get out much. But, would nice to have them along on a wolf or bear cull, might edumucate them some.
Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2015 @ 6:42 AM by Summit with a score of 35
As much as bow hunting is for rednecks and doesn’t belong in City limits
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Dimwit!
Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2015 @ 9:03 AM by PrinceGeorge with a score of -19
Recently a very experienced US dentist bow hunter went to Africa on one of his safaris and shot an arrow into a lion which was a tourist attraction. The story made the news worldwide. After the lion had been shot it disappeared and could not be located until the next day. It was found a long distance away and it took many hours to die a painful death.
Bow hunting is a cruel and archaic killing method, as is the so-called bullfighting in Spain. They are not sports.
Bow hunting should be banned within city limits, better yet it should be banned altogether.
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You haven’t a clue as to what you’re talking about. Go get educated then come back and correct your misinformation.
Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2015 @ 1:21 PM by gopg2015 with a score of -2
I do not care what implements are used to hunt, hunting is not a land use which should be allowed within the confines of a city irrespective of the land base of the city.
Why do people feel it is necessary to hunt in the city limits? Are they too lazy to drive outside the city limits?
If animals need to be culled, and the conservation officer thinks hunters should assist in that endeavor, then train them and license them for the purpose with all that it takes to respect property rights, safety and ethical hunting methods for what might be relatively tame animals. Finally, donate all the meat and the license fees collected to charitable organizations that work in the City of PG.
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Insert head banging brick wall emoticon here—->
Google PETA’s comic books and see what kind of dopes these people really are.
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