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Trapped in Debate


Animals  (tags: leg hold traps, horrific cruelty, debate, wild animals, trapping )

Simone
- 41 days ago - awionline.org
It will likely take heightened international exposure of the U.S. BMP trap-testing program for the world to see it for the sham it is. Global pressure will be needed to compel the E.U. to re-think its weak trapping agreement with the U.S. and ultimately
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Ge ARACELI (80)
Wednesday October 14, 2009, 4:50 pm
WHAT ARE "THEY" THINKING!!!
WE ARE NOT EMBICILIC nor DO WE EXIST PUPPETIZED PUPPETRY!
Our EARTH.
Our WILDLIFE.
EACH OTHER.
WE MATTER!!!


FROM THE LINK
"Trapped in Debate By Camilla H. Fox

Greenwash: The dissemination of misleading information by an organization to conceal its abuse of the environment in order to present a positive public image.1

Replace "THE Environment" with "wildlife" in the above definition, and this could easily describe the United States Best Management Practices (BMP) trap-testing program that was started in response to pressure to end the use of leghold traps. As stated in BMP trapping literature, one of the primary aims of the federal program is "to instill public confidence in and maintain public support for wildlife management and trapping through distribution of science-based information." Funded by American tax dollars and passed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA)2, the BMP trap-testing program has cost millions since its inception in 1996, while the cost to wildlife has been immeasurable. Despite the fact that the program has been criticized by independent scientists, wildlife professionals, and animal advocacy organizations as unscientific, self-serving, non-transparent, and rife with political agendas, thousands of coyotes, bobcat, beaver, raccoons and other furbearing species have been forced to suffer in leghold traps, as well as a variety of neck and body snares over the past 13 years."



WE ALL KNOW that WE ARE TIMES LIED to BY THE USA government... dependent on WHO is doing the "TALK"... IT IS OUTRAGE.
WE DESERVE BETTER.

SIMONE.
THANK YOU for YOUR CONTINUED LABOR of GOOD WILL for the VICTIMS in the ABUSES of MANY AREAS and YOUR POSTS of so many SHAMEFUL VIOLATIONS upon MOTHER EARTH HERSELF... and OUR CREATURES. ___t.y.
 

JennyLynn W. (107)
Thursday October 15, 2009, 12:03 am
I'm just too angry. Too much.
 

chris b. (1160)
Thursday October 15, 2009, 2:40 am
Another case of the lunatics in charge of the asylum. trapping investigated by a committee predominated by the fur industry and no representation from animal welfare organisations. What hope have animals got against this blatant greed and conpicuous consumption "ethic" More bureaucratic morass to entrap us in with out a leghold trap in sight!
 
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