Thread: Poor Wolves (Alaska)

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

Why? Do you realize how much better it is for the environment to let the animal's carcass rot?

I was thinking along ethical lines since the main topic of this thread seems to be ethical. I don't like the idea of killing anything unless I have a use for it. We could (and I was thinking when I suggested using them) use them for organic fertilizer and take a load off the strip mining that is currently carried out to manufacture chemical fertilizers.

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

Overpopulation of carnivorous animals like wolves also leads to them coming into contact with humans more often, searching for food. That means more people in danger from wolves, and wolves in danger from humans, aside the fact that prey populations would start to diminish totally.

Cool. As LucidFlanders pointed out, there are too many humans anyways. I see no basis for valuing human lives or human suffering above wolf lives and wolf suffering. Care to enlighten me?

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

Do you realize in states like Pennsylvania that professional hunters are payed to keep deer populations down, since the deer have no other major natural predators?

I do and I hope that they use the deer bodies for food and/or fertilizer.

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

And let the wolves drive their prey to extinction, thus leading them to extinction?

See my initial post in the thread. Extinction is no big deal. Although I must say that I wonder how life existed prior to the evolution of humans. What species managed their populations to make sure that they didn't go extinct?