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9 years ago
Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears Just Lost Protection From Hunters – Help Save Them!
The Trump Administration already moved to revoke federal protection from America’s wolves and now they’ve decided to take the same step towards Yellowstone’s beloved species, the grizzly bear. Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke revoked endangered species protection for the grizzlies – after these bears spent 42 years on the endangered species list and despite the fact that their population is currently in decline.
“Trophy hunters are lining up in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, waiting for their opportunity to gun down these magnificent bears and turn their heads and hides into wall mounts and rugs,” writes the Center for Biological Diversity in their petition regarding the case launched on Care2.
Currently, 700 grizzly bears live in the Yellowstone area. That number is a great achievement in itself for the species whose population has been under the process of slow and patient rebuilding over time – in 1975, the population in the area was just 136 bears. Hunting largely pushed the bear into dire straits back then – so we can only imagine the impact rolling back protections could have for this species.
The revocation of Yellowstone’s grizzlies protection is a “death warrant” for the animals – and the Trump Administration is the very author of that warrant. Instead of focusing on Conservation and protecting the environment, the Administration is proposing bill after bill that not only hinders progress but also actively threatens the lives of the animals and the well-being of our environment at large.
Environmental groups, one of them being the Center for Biological Diversity, have already filed notices of intent to sue if this senseless and cruel plan is not withdrawn. Take action in the matter as well – click here to sign the petition for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reconsider removing protections from Yellowstone’s grizzly bears and make the only possible sensible decision in the case.
Image source: Thomas_G/Pixabay
It is no coincidence that those initiating this grizzly bear cull are white, male & christian, the pinnacle of dominion… They undoubtedly all subscribe to judeo.christian dominion… the right to dominate, control & destroy animals for the most unreasonable excuses imaginable….
What gives them right to take the life of a sentient creature? name withheld
This may be the most important question of all… Just as the Queen believes that she has been ordained by god, so too do all the trophy hunters & holy cullers. When religion instills cruelty, it must be questioned. When religion endorses slaughter as the bloody bottom line, then every other abuse will follow. Once sown, the seeds of violence to animals will sprout, take root & spread. So long as these words remain intact, remain integral to the judeo. christian tradition, all our pleas for compassion will be cynically dispelled:
Genesis 9:1-3 “The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”
We will be told that slaughter can be made humane, that killing millions of homeless dogs in shelters is an act of kindness, that culls are necessary to strengthen & preserve the herd, that it is compassionate to kill a calf out of view of his mother, all the small lies, the cover-ups, the charades of dominion will go on so long as the religions that sanctify slaughter refuse to retract the terrible words of genesis.
timely..
These timely words are in response to the latest cull of genesis: grizzly bears around Yellowstone. Just as bear cubs are separated from their mother, think also of the brown skinned children separated from their mothers by the ruling white caste of america. It all begins with slaughter, inspired by the terror of genesis:
\’Thank you Ruth, I will google for information about this bear centre in India
Have you ever heard of Axel Munthe? I attach his quote which I would like to have read out when I die. (below)
I also attach an old email from someone who was an ardent campaigner. I believe his last name was Mason. I’ve kept this as I thought the words were very profound. You can feel the despair as well.\’ name with held
\’Dear friends, The first New Jersey bear hunt in 33 years is now over. The death toll looks to be past 300, plus perhaps many more victims unaccounted for. In truth, we will never know the full depth of this atrocity. Tomorrow we regroup and plan our counter-attack. Tonight, however, we must take time and mourn; to give all these lost animals the proper rights which is born from our love and affection for them. To the mothers with children stolen, and babies whose mothers were so brutally torn from them, if we could have cloaked you in our arms we would have, but being so unable, we did as best we could. And while we mourn, let us, all of us, in one voice, declare to the heavens a pledge of steel resolution never to forget this cause and to never cease fighting for the hunted. To the bears, and all hunted animals, may you find peace in another world that is not so savage and corrupt as this one…\’
Beautiful words of empathy for the suffering of animals are seldom understood by those reared under the tyranny of judeo.christian dominion:
“All that is best in me I have given to the Animals and I mean to stand by them to the last and share their fate whatever it may be. If it is true that there is to be no heaven of rest for them when their sufferings here are at an end, I for one, am not going to bargain for any heaven for myself. I shall go without fear where they go, and by the side of my Brothers and Sisters from the Forests and the Fields from the Skies to Seas, lie down to merciful extinction in their mysterious Underworld, safe from any further torments”. Axel Munthe 1857 -1949
Those who care the most should not suffer the most. Once we understand the hope of AHIMSA, our despair is eased, & ending the plight of animals becomes a realizable goal:
There is a way out of despair… It lies outside of the semitic religious tradition (judaism, christianity, islam). There is another world that is less savage. It is here, now, on earth. It is a world based on AHIMSA: non-violence to any living being, a cruelty free world as lived by the Jain community of India for millennia:
"All life is sacred and everyone has a right to live fearlessly to their maximum potential. Living beings do not have any fear from those who have taken the vow of ahimsa."..
"…But only Jainism has made ahimsa its central doctrine. It alone has consistently held the vision of a peaceable world, realisable by moral effort and spiritual discipline." Prof Andrew Linsey, Oxford University
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Ruth Eisenbud • a few seconds ago
It is no coincidence that those initiating this grizzly bear cull are white, male & christian, the pinnacle of dominion… They undoubtedly all subscribe to judeo.christian dominion… the right to dominate, control & destroy animals for the most unreasonable excuses imaginable….
What gives them right to take the life of a sentient creature? name withheld
This may be the most important question of all… Just as the Queen believes that she has been ordained by god, so too do all the trophy hunters & holy cullers. When religion instills cruelty, it must be questioned. When religion endorses slaughter as the bloody bottom line, then every other abuse will follow. Once sown, the seeds of violence to animals will sprout, take root & spread. So long as these words remain intact, remain integral to the judeo. christian tradition, all our pleas for compassion will be cynically dispelled:
Genesis 9:1-3 “The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”
We will be told that slaughter can be made humane, that killing millions of homeless dogs in shelters is an act of kindness, that culls are necessary to strengthen & preserve the herd, that it is compassionate to kill a calf out of view of his mother, all the small lies, the cover-ups, the charades of dominion will go on so long as the religions that sanctify slaughter refuse to retract the terrible words of genesis.
timely..
These timely words are in response to the latest cull of genesis: grizzly bears around Yellowstone. Just as bear cubs are separated from their mother, think also of the brown skinned children separated from their mothers by the ruling white caste of america. It all begins with slaughter, inspired by the terror of genesis:
\’Thank you Ruth, I will google for information about this bear centre in India
Have you ever heard of Axel Munthe? I attach his quote which I would like to have read out when I die. (below)
I also attach an old email from someone who was an ardent campaigner. I believe his last name was Mason. I’ve kept this as I thought the words were very profound. You can feel the despair as well.\’ name with held
\’Dear friends, The first New Jersey bear hunt in 33 years is now over. The death toll looks to be past 300, plus perhaps many more victims unaccounted for. In truth, we will never know the full depth of this atrocity. Tomorrow we regroup and plan our counter-attack. Tonight, however, we must take time and mourn; to give all these lost animals the proper rights which is born from our love and affection for them. To the mothers with children stolen, and babies whose mothers were so brutally torn from them, if we could have cloaked you in our arms we would have, but being so unable, we did as best we could. And while we mourn, let us, all of us, in one voice, declare to the heavens a pledge of steel resolution never to forget this cause and to never cease fighting for the hunted. To the bears, and all hunted animals, may you find peace in another world that is not so savage and corrupt as this one…\’
Beautiful words of empathy for the suffering of animals are seldom understood by those reared under the tyranny of judeo.christian dominion:
“All that is best in me I have given to the Animals and I mean to stand by them to the last and share their fate whatever it may be. If it is true that there is to be no heaven of rest for them when their sufferings here are at an end, I for one, am not going to bargain for any heaven for myself. I shall go without fear where they go, and by the side of my Brothers and Sisters from the Forests and the Fields from the Skies to Seas, lie down to merciful extinction in their mysterious Underworld, safe from any further torments”. Axel Munthe 1857 -1949
Those who care the most should not suffer the most. Once we understand the hope of AHIMSA, our despair is eased, & ending the plight of animals becomes a realizable goal:
There is a way out of despair… It lies outside of the semitic religious tradition (judaism, christianity, islam). There is another world that is less savage. It is here, now, on earth. It is a world based on AHIMSA: non-violence to any living being, a cruelty free world as lived by the Jain community of India for millennia:
"All life is sacred and everyone has a right to live fearlessly to their maximum potential. Living beings do not have any fear from those who have taken the vow of ahimsa."..
"…But only Jainism has made ahimsa its central doctrine. It alone has consistently held the vision of a peaceable world, realisable by moral effort and spiritual discipline." Prof Andrew Linsey, Oxford University
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