Comments on: Overhead Hog Hunting Has Marlins Under Fire? http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/overhead-hog-hunt-has-marlin-under-fire-16512 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Sat, 17 May 2008 08:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: jsides http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/overhead-hog-hunt-has-marlin-under-fire-16512#comment-391 jsides Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:34:09 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/overhead-hog-hunt-has-marlin-under-fire-16512#comment-391 Feral hogs are a very big problem in many states, including Florida. They're pretty much considered a nuisance animal by most federal and state wildlife officials -- in fact, these very same officials actually encourage hunters to kill the animals. Why? Because wild hogs are often very destructive to the local enviornment, and they breed like..well...hogs. On many military bases in the south (where wild hogs are often a problem) there are hired contractors whos sole job is to kill wild hogs on base property. Let's be honest here. No one really has a problem with this baseball player going hunting. These animal rights groups are just using this as an excuse to push their agenda on the rest of us. What they want to do is to get people angry, not angry at actual hunters mind you, but to appeal to the common mans sense of jealousy. I know, not everyone can afford to hire out a helecopter. Not everyone pulls in millions of dollars a year. This isn't about a guy going hunting, hundreds of thousands of americans are hunters. Feral hogs are a very big problem in many states, including Florida. They’re pretty much considered a nuisance animal by most federal and state wildlife officials — in fact, these very same officials actually encourage hunters to kill the animals. Why? Because wild hogs are often very destructive to the local enviornment, and they breed like..well…hogs.

On many military bases in the south (where wild hogs are often a problem) there are hired contractors whos sole job is to kill wild hogs on base property.

Let’s be honest here. No one really has a problem with this baseball player going hunting. These animal rights groups are just using this as an excuse to push their agenda on the rest of us. What they want to do is to get people angry, not angry at actual hunters mind you, but to appeal to the common mans sense of jealousy. I know, not everyone can afford to hire out a helecopter. Not everyone pulls in millions of dollars a year.

This isn’t about a guy going hunting, hundreds of thousands of americans are hunters.

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