A response to 3/22/23 Inter-County Leader Story "Snow hunt like a crow hunt"
Letter to the Editor of the Intercounty Leader, PO Box 490,
Frederic, WI 54837 Submitted April 2, 2023
The March 22, 2023 Intercounty Leader included a story about
the Crow Hunt Sponsored by a number of businesses in the Wanderoos area.
It is difficult for me to imagine that responsible adults in this day and age
still believe and promote the idea that shooting crows and throwing them in a
dumpster is practicing “sensible conservation”. Unfortunately, more often
than not in our world today it is this sort of messed up belief system that
guides us as we struggle with bigger problems. Shooting crows to protect
monoculture grown crops, or to supposedly save other birds babies, or even
because is just something the organizers boyfriend “enjoys” - seems mostly like
a cheap excuse to kill one of the most intelligent and probably most important
birds in our ecosystem. And then to make jokes about the crows tasting
like duck, and then toss their dead and gutted bodies in a dumpster instead of
utilizing these creatures as a source of food, is more than just bad taste, but
reveals the deeper disconnect our culture has from the natural world from which
we depend on for all we need. Feel free to print the attached cartoon I
put together in response to this sad story.
Sincerely,
Tom Jablonski
504 Oak Street North
Frederic, WI 54837
No comments:
Post a Comment