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Open Season on Bald Eagles

10,000 Birds

There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. The Bald Eagle has the potential to be the Holy Grail of game birds. We need to give hunters new opportunities to hunt. People who protest our proposed hunt are trying to strip rights from the hunting public. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. For example, protesting the government’s food policies by wearing buttons, putting ads in the New York Times , or writing one’s congressman would seem to have greater educational value than not eating meat (question 2).