Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak: Black bear diaries: The pending murder of my mother, my brother, my sister, my cubs

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“The fear of bears comes out of the hunting culture. To feel good about killing these animals, we have to make them out to be ferocious. … They are misrepresented.” — Charlie Russell, bear man of Kamchatka

Wednesday, Sept. 9, the bear kill started, continuing for 35 days of what can only be called genocide (Webster’s: “the systematic extermination of a cultural group”). A record number of kill licenses, 10,690, have been sold with the goal of killing 4,750 bears, a 19 percent kill rate by Department of Natural Resources estimate. To put that in proportion to the Wisconsin human population, that will impact bears like killing more than 1 million humans in Wisconsin would impact us. It is horrifying carnage of a peaceful indigenous population, much like that inflicted on the American Indians.

In 2014, 70.7 percent of the male bears killed were less than 2 years old, as…

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2 thoughts on “Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak: Black bear diaries: The pending murder of my mother, my brother, my sister, my cubs”

  1. So the trophy hunters just want the biggest and the best, and the rest of the throwbacks will even kill cubs just to get their killing done. So the throwbacks aren’t any better than the trophy seekers, despite their sanctimonious claims to be different. They’re all substandard specimens of the species.

    Yes, as noted, calling animals “ferocious” seems to justify the hunters’ murder sprees. I just read a statistic about wolves, (another “ferocious” animal who is apparently especially fond of devouring small urchins on their way to the school bus). http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/29/are-kid-cages-protecting-nm-children-or-case-ranchers-crying-wolf/

    According to that source there has been potentially only one human fatality by wolf in the 21st century. The same author notes that 170 people died in the same time period by swallowing tooth picks. “Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea,and Human Life” by George Monbiot.

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