Feb 26 2010
Wayne Pacelle on Hunters, 1988
Wayne Pacelle has denied he ever said what he said back in 1991 about wanting to ban "all sport hunting." We have to wonder if he'll deny this too.
After Pacelle graduated from Yale in 1987, he went to work as assistant editor of The Animals' Agenda, then the central publication of the animal rights world. Everybody who was anybody in "the movement" subscribed.
He contributed an essay himself from time to time, and we found one from 1988 titled "Animal Retribution?"
It's really a one-page screed against hunting, and against hunters personally.
Here's what Pacelle had to say about hunters getting hurt by animals: it's a rare instance of "justice."
You couldn't make this up:
As reported recently in The Washington Times, a hunter shot and wounded a passing Canada goose, but unexpectedly the plummeting bird turned kamikaze and slammed into the head of the hunter, knocking him out. Despite these rare instances of justice...
But that's not all. Pacelle goes on to call hunters "coreligionists" (which is a bit ironic coming from someone in the animal rights movement), and also refers to ants as though they were people (writing "an ant who..." instead of "an ant that...")
It's always interesting to see snapshots of the real Wayne Pacelle, before he scrubbed his image for those "$19-a-month" commercials. Maybe he doesn't hold the same beliefs today, but to our knowledge, he's never disavowed any of his writings.
Whatever happened to being humane to people?
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I’d love to see it, however the link is requesting a user name and password to see it.
lil help please!
I have to laugh to myself that HSUS denied saying they don’t want to abolish ALL sport hunting. I believe it was 1994 after he officially became the Chief Executive Officer of The HSUS on June 1, 2004, and promptly sent the staff a statement outlining his beliefs and broad goals. One of which was to stop all bowhunting in 2005. Stop All Bowhunting was on the front page of their website.
I know they helped fund the fight and stop of the bear hunt in NJ.
http://files.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/Initiativechart.pdf
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Take a trip over to the HSUS site and do a search on the term “hunting”. All of their positions on any pro-hunting legislation are “oppose”.
I can’t open the audio file, but did Wayne say that he doesn’t agree with that statement, or does he only deny that he said it? There’s a big difference.