March 29, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

A good word about Maine hunters

This letter is in response to letters from Walter Weigal (Readers Write, Sept. 26), who does not condone hunting as a sport, and Rebbeca Beatham (same date), who believes all hunters are heartless.

Is Weigal aware of how much hunters contribute to our beautiful state? License and registration fees comprise the majority of income for the state’s game management organizations. The deer and moose herd in Maine is healthier now than in previous years. The annual deer and moose seasons allow for the legal harvesting of a renewable resource that we should be proud of.

Hunters assist Mother Nature in controlling the population of deer and moose. Hunters also dispatch game in the quickest possible method, whereas nature starves animals to death when their food supply has run out….

Each year, more than 200,000 hunters take to the Maine woods in search of game and in hopes of putting food on the family table. This is a part of American heritage older than Thanksgiving itself and I’m willing to bet there is a turkey on your family’s tables at Thanksgiving. What is the difference?

If someone else kills it for you, does it somehow make it more right? I hope both of the above-mentioned writers and their respective families are 100-percent vegetarians…. Please remember that any meat product they eat had to be killed by someone. John Thibodeau Brewer


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