The Sportsman's Advocate

Welcome to The Sportsman's Advocate. I feel that I have an obligation to begin this blog as a response to a group that steadily attacks my way of life. I am an avid sportsman and farmer and I am tired of sitting idly by as PETA says that people like me will cause the end of the world.

PETA tells us that sportsmen are unnecessarily cruel murders of wildlife that should be left alone. That the world would be in perfect order if people didn't kill poor defenseless animals. In defense of the sportsman, things aren't as you might believe.

Did you know...

-That according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), sportsmen provided 1.8 billion in 2001 through license fees and taxes alone to help fund conservation efforts nationwide.

-That same year, hunters contributed another $200 million to conservation organizations, including DU, and other sportsmen’s groups, and spent a staggering $4 billion to lease, manage, and own land for hunting.

-If not for controlled harvesting by hunters, overpopulation of wildlife would lead to slow and painful death of animals due to disease.



Hunters and fishermen aren't on a misson to destroy wildlife, in fact, they are wildlife's leading supporter.

Hunting, fishing, and farming have been around since time began. Until recent years no one would suggest that we should leave all the animals alone and eat only vegetables. Now I know that not all PETA supporters believe that vegetarianism is the only way, but PETA as a whole does, and that my friends is ridiculous.

It is often argued that people have no right to eat animals, but look at it from a biological standpoint. Consider a simple food chain: Radiant energy to plant, plant to herbivore, herbivore to carnivore, carnivore to top carnivore. That is as simple as it gets. Man is an omnivore among the top carnivores.

I can never understand why any group of people would try to make any other group of people conform their beliefs. I'm not out to tell vegetarians that they have to eat meat, why do they feel that they have to keep us from eating animals.

I'm not out to attack anyone...that being said I will fight back when my way of life is attacked.