If they eat fish, eat meat, raise livestock, own pets, they should be taught to oppose hunting bans. If they harbor the belief that humans are distinctly different from animals, they should support hunters' rights. Here's another voice from Washington. We see it as the next logical target and we believe it is vulnerable. You see, hunters are not the target.
Hunters are just today's target.
The man who uttered that phrase is Wayne Pacelle. His Washington-based group was behind the end of the use of dogs and bait in bear hunting in Colorado. His hunting ban succeeded in 1992, in part because he enlisted the help of Coloradans who thought they were merely injecting their own set of ethics into a sport, a cultural heritage and a scientifically managed practice that they simply did not understand. They also did not understand the nature of the animals rights extremists they teamed up with. I resent that he's stirring up a wasp's nest in this state and we're stuck with it, because now hunting groups aren't going to trust us anymore.