Anti's Call for Deer Birth Control in PA Park

[LifeNRA]

Anti's Call for Deer Birth Control in Park- (01/10)
Pennsylvania

While state and local officials prepare for a hunt to scale back a Pennsylvania park’s burgeoning deer herd, anti-hunters are protesting the hunt and lobbying for the use of unproven, contraceptive drugs on the animals.

On Jan. 11, Norristown Farm Park in eastern Pennsylvania will hold the third in a sequence of successful hunts to reduce a deer herd that has devastated vegetation and other habitat. Anti-hunters oppose the cull and have planned a protest to begin at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning at the park entrance.

Despite comments from Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser that “hunting is the primary means of managing deer populations,” animal rights activists are convinced that deer birth control, not hunting, should be implemented to control deer herds.

Anti’s ignore that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved deer fertility drugs for human consumption and that there have been no findings to ensure that other wildlife species are not adversely affected.

“Beyond the health and safety issues, deer birth control programs are expensive and inefficient,” said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance President Bud Pidgeon. “Statistics show that treatments average $2,943 per deer, and states that have tried the drugs, including Connecticut, Minnesota and Ohio, all reported subsequent escalation in deer numbers in target areas.”

Feaser concurs. “There’s no scientific evidence that birth control works in a free ranging deer herd,” he said.

For Wednesday’s hunt, sportsmen will be allowed to take only antlerless deer with single-slug shotguns.

Sportsmen can contact Ron Ahlbrandt, director of parks in Montgomery County at (610) 278-3555 to let him know you support the hunt as a means of controlling the deer population.

[johnf]

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Anti-hunters oppose the cull and have planned a protest to begin at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning at the park entrance.
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I guess they forget that hunters have guns.

It's been my experience that a dead deer won't breed.

[buckee]

Birth control !!!! ...WOW. You mean that anti-hunters would want to see the deer population dwindle due to birth control rather than being utilized as a natural resource ?? Now that right there is the nuttiest thing I have ever heard of.

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

Nutty indeed. How long will it take for the current over population of deer to get back down to a reasonable level? And that's assuming the birth control works. The last report I read about it showed a less than 30% effective rate!

[stevebeilgard]

hey, libs are good at sex education. maybe just talk to the deer about safe sex. issue condoms? heck, it's working great for our kindergarten to 4 th greaders, isn't it? what idiots

[Jimfrompa]

I can't see where they are comming from. It is beyond me. They don't think anything of Killing innocent babies but shoot a deer and they get up early to complain. I give up trying to figure these people out. I pray that they will get a clue.

[johnf]

I just saw an interview with Ted Nugent where he said in some Michigan city, I forget which one, they paid over $5K per deer to be sterilized.

I wander how many people they could have fed with all that $$$ if it had been used with a little bit of common sence behind it.

[buckee]

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I just saw an interview with Ted Nugent where he said in some Michigan city, I forget which one, they paid over $5K per deer to be sterilized.

I wander how many people they could have fed with all that $$$ if it had been used with a little bit of common sence behind it.

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Exactly