How anyone, especially someone claiming to be a protector of animals, would choose to have an animal spend days, even weeks, suffering the pain that comes with starvation is beyond me.

At least with hunting it's a quick end.

We humans, hunters and nonhunters, are squeezing animals into smaller and smaller areas by building more and more homes and roads and buildings on what was wildlife range. Hunting is an efficient management tool.

The next best thing to hunting would be to trap and move animals that become too numerous for the land to support. So instead of paying lawyers to file lawsuits, why wouldn't the Humane Society simply offer to pay the bill to move the animals? Instead of lip service, get involved in management.

Go out and see the results of overcrowding and then tell me starvation is a better way of dying.

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