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Bad Will Hunting
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So, since grizzly-bear hunting season is set to open next week in British Columbia—and a record 430 grizzlies were killed last year, mostly by trophy hunters (like the "gentlemen" pictured)—we recognize our responsibility to offer you an alternative perspective of this "blood sport." I mean, hey, we're PETA, isn't it our job to lay it on the masses and get them off their asses to fight against these fascist practices? (Bragging rights to anyone who knows what that paraphrases.)
You can check out campaign news here. PETA and its affiliates have spanned the globe—from naked protesters in Europe to a feisty activist dressed in bear suit that successfully stalked a Royal couple across the Caribbean. As always, there are sassy celebrity endorsements to encourage you to get involved too. Please do your part to save a bear and sign PETA Europe's petition to U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown in support of bears.
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Obviously trying to compensate for their "short comings."
Posted by: dave | August 13, 2008 12:46 PM
Awh, isn't that a great snapshot?
Look how nice those guys are posing...and how PROUD they are of their brave act-- ending the life of that magnificent bear.
What mindless pleasure does a human being derive from taking another life? God created that bear just as He breathed life into the nostrils of those "once" innocent children who have now grown up to be callous, egotistical madmen.
As long as I live, I'll never understand what compels a human being to hunt for "sport" (totally inaccurate term--but for lack of a better word, I used it here).
How sad. Our world will never, ever experience true peace as long as you have this scene played out again and again all over the world.
May the bear find freedom and lasting peace in his next life and may something happen in each one of those men's lives that cause a mental torment that stays with them till they die.
Posted by: S. L. Trout | August 13, 2008 03:56 PM
Fascist? Wow, thats a big lie to say to these down country people. There not fascist, just rural. They grew up doing this, and NOTHING will stop them. No matter what anyone can do.
Posted by: shottysniperz | August 13, 2008 06:58 PM
How manly. How macho. How irresponsible. How disturbing.
Posted by: vegancoin | August 13, 2008 06:58 PM
What a horrific photo that is. How someone can kill such a beautiful animal. Words fail me. I'm a British citizen and believe me NO fan of the Royal family. I've signed so many petitions re: those horrific hats. The Royals are a law unto themselves. We have the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animlas (RSPCA)amongst others. It would be funny if it wasn't so horrific. Cruelty to Animals and the Royal Family go together - just not in the way we would like. Makes me bloody ashamed to be British.
Posted by: Lindy | August 13, 2008 08:30 PM
gentlemen? more like cavemen!
Posted by: nicole | August 13, 2008 10:18 PM
Take their guns with powerful scopes away and see how they fare with the bear! I'm anti all hunting, but at least some people hunt and then eat their kills, this is just completely mindless.
Posted by: Leigh | August 14, 2008 07:24 AM
WOW! These are real men, ambushing and killing animals with weapons. I dare them face the bear without their "big guns", then we'll see who poses for the picture.
IDIOTS!
Posted by: NT | August 14, 2008 05:11 PM
Having been born and raised in Canada I can honestly say that I find this hunt embarrassing. We hunt polar bears, grizzlies, seals and on and on. The only way the hunting will stop is if there is no $$$ to be made from it (like the tusks being taken from live elephants in Africa so they don't get poached). Bring as much pressure to bear (no pun intended) on the Canadian government - shame them into taking action against these cruel and savage practices!!!
Posted by: embarrassed Canadian | August 14, 2008 10:01 PM
First so y'all know, I am a hunter. I hut for the meat, the fur, and yes the heads. Second not all of us hunters are bad people, I am good shot, also I do not use a gun, I use a bow. I am closer to my prey and closed to being hurt or killed. That being said, I love to hunt, I do not waste anything unlik those that just want the heads.
Posted by: Jeremy | August 15, 2008 01:18 AM
Thank you Jeremy for giving us yet another example of just how cold hearted and cruel hunters can be, hunting with an bow and arrow, that is even more pathetic, why don't you buy your meat already dead it's not as if you are starving! As a Brit I am ashamed that our soldiers are forced to wear slaughtered bears on their heads.Royals most certainly do not set a good example when it comes to compassion, they love hunting and wearing fur!
Posted by: Maureen | August 17, 2008 01:20 PM
Sweet, Jeremy uses a bow.
Poor animals....what a horrible Medieval manner of being killed. Ivanhoe re-emerges.
Shoot animals with cameras.
Hunting is for cowards.
Appreciate nature with cameras.
Posted by: Ana | August 17, 2008 07:44 PM
When humankind will start respecting the other animals? Maybe when there is no more time to...
I signed the petition!
Posted by: regina | August 17, 2008 08:23 PM
it does not matter whether your killing a creature humanely or not, or as a 'trophy' or not, the fact is, that no matter what way you look at it, your spending your life, taking away others, who also value theirs and have rights,sure they have more fur than us, but how does it make them different? blacks, gypsies, whites, race does not discriminate how they feel, they can or could have; loved, or lived a life full of joy. Just because something has life, does not mean we have the right to take it, if we kill a human, it's murder, and we go to jail/gaol, but if we kill another Race of animal, you don't, how can we dismiss the fact that we take life like it does not matter, Go watch 'Open season'the movie and you'll see what I mean. Those Creatures have just as much right to live and breathe as freely as we do.
Posted by: Madison | August 18, 2008 04:47 AM
Most importantly, these magnificent animals lose their one shot at life.
But these men, too, who choose the cheap satisfaction of destroying a life lose out on the long lived and deeply satisfying joy experienced by those who tirelessly work to protect bears and their habitat.
Posted by: lynda downie | August 21, 2008 12:06 AM