Back to the bowhunting in Garret Mountain issue

Good day all,

I always have many collected thoughts and ramblings on just about everything. Animal cruelty (including murder) is a huge disturbance of mine as well to many an ethical HUMAN-E being. (Paragraph just edited by the vegan due to possible riffs with previously mentioned issues)
Back to this horrendous bow hunting issue. Aiming a rifle is bad enough but shooting a bow and having that poor creature suffer is just gut wretching. I "hung out" in West Paterson (pardon me it is now Woodland Park..whatever) and I know Garrett Mountain quite well or at least I did what seems a life time ago. No surprise it as well as everyplace else seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Yep, keep building and taking away all that is natural. I feel sorry for this world someday. Just a stone cold man made word existing of unhumane humans. I shutter at the thought!
My neighbor/friend wrote in regarding this issue and I am (with her permission) highlighting some of her very valid and sound points. Again, comments are welcome but doing so in a crude and hateful manner will just show your ignorance so please think before you type!
Here is some of what she said. She also made note of Deer Collisions and how driving the speed limit and paying attention as well as staying off the CELLPHONE were just a couple of positive factors. Let me say that I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. Get off that friggin' cellphone and drive!! If you are in an animal inhabitated area which most likely you are more than not thanks to man and his building blocks, SLOW DOWN and look at the road!! There are also light reflectors you can have put on your car. Amazing how a deer runs into the road and you hit it and the poor deer gets blamed. Don't get me wrong here. I am sorry for anyone that has suffered in any type of car accident BUT this can be avoided. Did I mention to get the hell off the cellphone??

Anyway back on track to some of her good and quite valid points:


Although deer are a carrier of the adult Lyme disease tick, MANY wildlife species carry the larval and nymph stages of the tick which are most infectious to humans. When deer numbers are reduced, ticks tend to congregate in higher densities on the remaining deer or switch to alternate hosts (pets, humans). Ticks need to be eradicated at the larval and nymph stage when they are on the white-footed mice host. The American Lyme Disease Foundation does not recommend killing deer to prevent Lyme disease, and in some locations where all deer were removed, the incidence of the disease did not diminish. Also Douglas Hotton, leader of the U.S. Department of Natural Resource's deer management program, said deer numbers may have little to do with the spread of Lyme disease. In fact, he suggested that the very name "deer tick" is misleading. "It ought to really be called the 'mouse tick,'" he said, since the white-footed mouse is the main host for the Lyme-causing bacteria. (This is from an article from the Baltimore Sun, dated July 26, 2007.)

It has been suggested that the flesh from “harvested” deer be donated to soup kitchens. These deer habitually feed in areas where heavy pesticides and chemicals are applied, or even roadside vegetation (heavy exhaust/hydrocarbon stuff there too). We have seen articles in hunters' magazines advising hunters NOT TO CONSUME organ meats, especially the livers from deer, on a regular basis. This is because the liver concentrates all toxic wastes and tries to eliminate them from the blood stream. Most importantly – donated deer meat IS NOT INSPECTED. Donating this un-inspected meat to soup kitchens and homeless shelters to be served to those with compromised immune systems is irresponsible. A ploy so hunters can pat themselves on the back, because they wouldn't eat it themselves.
Crossbow hunting is the most inhumane and horrifying method of killing an animal. An accurate ‘kill shot’ is likely less than fifty percent of the time, causing an excruciating, slow and painful death, so residents should be prepared to find deer bleeding and dying on their property with arrows protruding from them. This is what hunters DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.
The most cost effective, LONG TERM deer management consists of non-lethal methods utilizing outdoor repellent treatments and plantings in yards, Streitor-Lite Reflectors on roadways, and immunocontraception.

This last paragraph says it all! My many thanks to her for allowing me to post this. Fellow ethical friends, PLEASE take action on this and let your voice be heard!!