Nice link on youtube,
Need a summary of this video, then I'll move summary to blog post and embed this video.
Could also use a summary of her other videos and add a link to her YouTube Channel as a postscript to this post or as a new post.
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Why non-lethal methods?
Hunting doesn't work because of rebound effect, that's why killing programs are repeated year after year with the deer population continuing to grow as fast as or faster than the killing.
Lethal deer management is a sham put forth by hunting interests to gain more convenient hunting access in urban environments.
[feed plot]
Hunters "thin the herd" causing the surviving herd to grow stronger, reproduce at higher rates until there is overpopulation, then DVAs, then they hunt because something "must be done". This circular logic causes a constant supply of deer for hunters while citizens are duped by the threat that if nothing is done, they'll be subjected to DVAs.
[pop 30,000 for Solon is too high, should be 21,000 for that year]
White Buffalo that was hired by Solon said its like "mowing the lawn", referring to the need to constantly kill to overcome the Rebound effect. This becomes a self perpetuating cash flow for the lethal operators.
So Hunting is proposed, this reduces the cost of sharp shooters only to be made up in hunting licenses for the big proponents of hunting, ODNR, ODOW, USDA Wildlife Services. Again its a circular self perpetuating cash flow for those involved, while the citizens are paying money, and being subjected to unnecessary safety risks. Hunting causes cruel deaths for the animals.
Non-lethal methods are far cheaper and more effective, its time to get off this treadmill of killing year after year and use methods that don't generate more deer and more DVAs.
I don't know if this is any better than Lane's comment below...
I was trying to soften the conspiracy issue to go along with the emotional plea of the video, having watched it several times, maybe that's not needed.
Lane's material is
here.
From the video description:
Proof positive of failure of deer culling program at Pepper Pike OH
Human Fatality in DVA is Murder One
http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/deer-20070829.htm
The first point I make here can cause wide-spread controversy and confrontation between hunters and anti-hunters. Hunters blame deer overpopulation for causing the DVAs as justification for the massive killing of deer in the eyes of the non-hunting yet safety-conscious public, but I contend that the DVAs are at least in part deliberately caused by none other than the hunters themselves.
Although only 6% of the American public hunt, they still amount to millions of deer hunters. To ensure themselves of enough deer to hunt, they use feed plots in the wild to artificially boost the deer population to "overpopulation" levels, which then causes high DVA rates.
Not only this. Ask any major insurance company what day of the year has the highest DVA rate, and you will likely be told that it is the opening day of the deer hunting season, and that the two months of the hunting season account for about half of the year's DVA total.
For more on the article
http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/deer-20070804.htm
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