09-22-2007, 03:42 PM
[size 1]WASHINGTON, D.C.: The number of hunters this season is dwindling, and animal activists are crying victory. But Frank Miniter, author of The Politically Incorrect Guideâ„¢ to Hunting, shatters the illusion that hunters are obliterating nature. "Most people just don't know the truth about hunting. Emotion gets in the way of reason," Miniter says. "The mainstream media doesn't tell them the whole story."
Miniter fills this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, The Politically Incorrect Guideâ„¢ to Hunting, with facts the liberal media won't tell you: hunters are not heartless killers, but people who truly love and work to preserve nature. Miniter busts myth after myth, from what endangered lists really mean for a species to how vegetarians benefit from land patrolled by hunters.
From deer killing drivers to geese taking down airplanes, and even the price of vegetables, The Politically Incorrect Guideâ„¢ to Hunting is the arsenal hunters need to shatter the arguments of judgmental vegetarians and anti-hunters. Miniter, executive editor of American Hunter magazine, takes aim at the ignorance, misguided compassion, and bad science used by animal activists who advocate non-lethal animal control methods like birth control for deer.
MYTH #1: Hunters are bloodthirsty killers with no respect for nature
Hunters donate meat to food pantries, pay the fees that expand wildlife conservation programs, keep national parks preserved, and protect motorists' lives. Hunters are nature-lovers and conservationists, and they are the first to report poachers who disregard laws that protect wildlife and natural habitats.
MYTH #2: We can peacefully co-exist with unchecked wildlife
Nature lovers on Florida's Sanibel Island found out the truth the hard way. After calling a truce with alligators, and allowing confrontational gators to be relocated and not killed, two people were fatally attacked, forcing the town to call in hunters to stop the violence. In a typical year, deer kill ten times more people than alligators, sharks, bears, and cougars combined. Like alligators, they are much less deadly when their populations are controlled by hunting.
MYTH #3: Being a vegetarian saves wildlife
While many vegetarians say they don't eat meat because they can't stomach the killing of animals, every cabbage, carrot, and apple they eat is raised by a farmer who kills deer, rabbits, or rodents that would eat them out of business. If hunting were ended nationally, consumers would end up paying billions of dollars in additional food costs. [/size]
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Miniter fills this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, The Politically Incorrect Guideâ„¢ to Hunting, with facts the liberal media won't tell you: hunters are not heartless killers, but people who truly love and work to preserve nature. Miniter busts myth after myth, from what endangered lists really mean for a species to how vegetarians benefit from land patrolled by hunters.
From deer killing drivers to geese taking down airplanes, and even the price of vegetables, The Politically Incorrect Guideâ„¢ to Hunting is the arsenal hunters need to shatter the arguments of judgmental vegetarians and anti-hunters. Miniter, executive editor of American Hunter magazine, takes aim at the ignorance, misguided compassion, and bad science used by animal activists who advocate non-lethal animal control methods like birth control for deer.
MYTH #1: Hunters are bloodthirsty killers with no respect for nature
Hunters donate meat to food pantries, pay the fees that expand wildlife conservation programs, keep national parks preserved, and protect motorists' lives. Hunters are nature-lovers and conservationists, and they are the first to report poachers who disregard laws that protect wildlife and natural habitats.
MYTH #2: We can peacefully co-exist with unchecked wildlife
Nature lovers on Florida's Sanibel Island found out the truth the hard way. After calling a truce with alligators, and allowing confrontational gators to be relocated and not killed, two people were fatally attacked, forcing the town to call in hunters to stop the violence. In a typical year, deer kill ten times more people than alligators, sharks, bears, and cougars combined. Like alligators, they are much less deadly when their populations are controlled by hunting.
MYTH #3: Being a vegetarian saves wildlife
While many vegetarians say they don't eat meat because they can't stomach the killing of animals, every cabbage, carrot, and apple they eat is raised by a farmer who kills deer, rabbits, or rodents that would eat them out of business. If hunting were ended nationally, consumers would end up paying billions of dollars in additional food costs. [/size]
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