Reply #1 :Posted on : Mon March 15, 2010 @ 02:19:51 PM
Someone asked that proof be provided regarding if a wolf had EVER killed a human being.....as a challenge no doubt to her theory that wolves are not dangerous and that we hunters are all a bunch of "killers", who are heartless and uncaring.
Thus, the following information if provided. Date of kill: November 8, 2006. Person killed: Mr. Kenton Carnegie, who was a 3rd year geological engineering student doing geo-eng studies in Saskatchewan, Canada. Location of kill: near Points North, Saskatchewan. Killed while walking in the woods near the site where he worked and lived. The cause of his death was confirmed by an autopsy done by a competent medical examiner. Plus, the scene of the kill was closely examined by RCMP personnel in order to see what happened prior to and after the kill.
Any suggestion that this student was the only human being EVER killed by a wolf, is purely unrealistic. Wolves, like any carnivore are killers by nature. Humans are protein to a wolf and much easier to catch and kill than most wild animals that they normally feed upon.
In Botswan, Africa....in January I was hunting for a "man-eating" lion, when a huge leopard attacked me. Before he made contact with me I killed him at 10 feet with my .416 Rigby. Inside his stomach were the unmistakable remains of a small child and an adult. Wolves, lions, leopards and Nile crocodiles are no different....they all will kill humans if give half a chance.
Mother Nature has not changed in millions of years. We humans hunt, because we can and wish to. Hunting regulates the population densities of wild animals and the hunter's money provides value to the species hunted. When they have no value, poaching kills them off and without hunting as a management tool, Mother Nature takes over and eventually the wild animal species over-populate and that leads to more disease, suffering and death....and eventual extinction.
This is pure science and not politics, nor warm-tree-hugging bull-crap.
If folks don't like hunters and hunting, then they should never eat meat, nor their by-products. If they do, they are merely hypocrites.....and we have millions of them on this planet. If one is a "true" vegetarian, then "go for it".....just realize that plant materials lack two essential amino-acids (the building blocks of all proteins) that meat has ample supplies of. Thus, if you starve your body of these two essential amino-acids, it may be why your brain doesn't function at its intended capacity.
