Animals “Talk Back” To Sarah Palin

September 12, 2008

A Daily Kos diarist pointed out, Sarah Palin “champions savagery” by promoting the brutal aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife including bears. Here, the animals “speak out” against Sarah Palin.

Warning: graphic images.

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is no friend of animals.

She loves to hunt animals. She loves to wear animals. She loves to sit on dead animals. She loves to use dead animals as decorations. She loves to encourage people to kill animals. She loves to profit from animals. She loves to eat animals.

Here’s a closer look at some of her brutality against animals:

Dogs
Palin supports the brutal Iditarod dogsled race which causes deaths by drowning, freezing, smashing, and many other injuries to dogs.

Wolves
Sarah Palin set a bounty for each wolf foreleg. She proposed the aerial hunting of wolves.

Bears
Sarah Palin proposed the aerial hunting of bears.
She tried to have polar bears removed from the endangered species list.

Moose
Palin has hunted for moose with bow and arrow and guts them herself. (Bowhunting is banned many places because it’s cruel.) Palin eats mooseburgers and her favorite dish is moose stew.

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(Concept from: A Closer Look At Palin at Vegan Soapbox)

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Politics, veganism 

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8 Responses to “Animals “Talk Back” To Sarah Palin”

  1. Escobar Driver on September 13th, 2008 4:17 am

    Couple of clarifications and comments

    The Iditarod is not cruel to dogs
    http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/02/remembering-susan-butcher-master-musher-1954-2006/#comment-411714
    http://www.adn.com/outdoors/craig_medred/story/164479.html

    Bowhunting is not banned because of cruelty (in the US), it’s banned close to occupied structures. http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Archery_-_Hunting/id/1284591

    I’m with you on the hunting from planes for any species - if you’re going to hunt, you should be on the ground with the animals.

    I’m with you on wolf conservation.

    Hunting and cruelty - a well placed shot kills very quickly with little pain to the animal. Most hunters I’ve met make every effort to make every kill a clean kill. Like it or not, big game populations are no longer ‘wild’, they are all managed. We’ve killed off the predator populations in most states and if we just let the deer and antelope play, the populations grow too large and then we have massive die-offs in the winter. If you think killing a deer with a bullet or arrow is cruel, imagine the agony of slowly starving to death in a snowbank. Hunting takes the place of predation and helps keep the populations at a level where most animals can live with adequate food.

    If a person is going to be a carnivore, I think hunting is appropriate. If you’re not willing to kill, gut, and process your own food, then you probably should be a vegetarian. As it happens, I’ve decided that if I don’t hunt some of my food, then I will turn veggie. I’m off this fall to hunt deer for the first time in my life - should be interesting.

  2. Elaine Vigneault on September 13th, 2008 10:18 am

    Iditarod is cruel. You can have a different definition of cruel than I do, but I stand by my assertion that forcing dogs to pull you around on ice and snow for a very long race that will result in at least some dog deaths is indeed cruel.
    http://www.helpsleddogs.org/
    http://www.helpsleddogs.org/faq.htm#4a

    Bowhunting is harder to achieve a “quick, clean kill” and thus is likely to be cruel. Many people oppose bowhunting on those grounds.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowhunting
    I don’t have anything against archery. My grandmother was a great archer. But I do have something against killing animals, particularly against killing them in cruel ways or trying to kill them and severely harming them for sport.

    You said, “If you’re not willing to kill, gut, and process your own food, then you probably should be a vegetarian.”
    We agree.

    But if I were you, I couldn’t rationalize experimenting on wild deer. I wouldn’t be willing to risk the chance of a cruel kill (a likely possibility for a novice hunter) just to see if I could personally handle being a killer. I’d just go veg and not play games with my emotions and with animals’ lives.

  3. Naturelover on September 13th, 2008 11:03 am

    I agree with good responsible hunters. Let me explain- Hunting eliminates the need for people to consume factory farmed meat. These animals live in horrific conditions. Then the slaughter practices are not closely monitered. Many animals are dismembered and skined while still alive. Poultry has it the worst. The humane slaughter act does not cover poultry, not that it would help to much. Many chickens and turkeys are beaten kicked dismembered, and boiled alive! So anyone who is a good reponsible respectful hunter is ok with me. In fact if we all had to hunt and kill our dinner I think that we would all be more respectful of animals!

    I do not think that Palin is a respectful hunter. She is a member of The Safari Club, which promotes canned hunting and poaching. I think canned hunting is raising ,say Quail, then releasing them from a cage for people to shoot. Most the Quail do not make it very far. Shooting wolves from anairplane was done to protect herds of animals in Alaska so that hunters would have more to shoot? This is very questionable. The wolves and the hunters had plenty to share..This was wrong.

  4. Elaine Vigneault on September 13th, 2008 11:22 am

    We can agree that canned hunts are terrible.

  5. Tracy on September 14th, 2008 11:24 am

    Naturelover said, “Hunting eliminates the need for people to consume factory farmed meat.”

    So does vegetarianism. And it’s a lot less cruel.

    Visit ChooseVeg.com for great cruelty-free recipes.

  6. Naturelover on September 22nd, 2008 11:14 am

    To Tracy I am a vegan and a woman suprise! The reason I do not think that hunting is as bad as eating meat from factory farms-PEOPLE- They do not want to stop eating meat. So let them see for themselves what it involves. Maybe this would make them change their minds. Forcing opinions on people does not work. It has to be Handled with care. Most hunters I know go for a quick less painful kill. This is much better than the brutal torture of factory farms! By the way why are you not a vegan?

  7. Koho (moose) on October 10th, 2008 2:33 pm

    Sarah Palin shot at me. Read my story here…

    http://animalinternet.com/animatorial/view/sarah_palin_shot_at_me/

  8. Animal Lover on October 17th, 2008 6:23 pm

    There is already enough packaged cruelty in our super markets. Why is it necessary to add to the misery? I wonder if hunters would feel the same way about hunting if they suddenly traded places and became the hunted.

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