"Jim Ray" wrote in message
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Please excuse my ignorance on this, but could you detail some of the
success
they have had in MA?

In 1996, using a well funded disinformation campaign, PETA was able to convince
the residents of MA to pass Question 1, which for all practicle purposes
outlawed trapping. There has since been an explosion in the beaver population
that has caused a great amount of damage, and has established thousands of
acres of new mosquito habitat, at a time when West Nile Virus and Eastern
Equine Encephalitis are on the upswing in southern New England.

Question 1 also changed the makeup of the Fisheries and Wildlife Advisory
Board. The board is the final word on hunting and fishing regulations, and the
passage of Question 1 opens the door for PETA candidates to be appointed to the
board. The members of the board serve at the pleasure of the Governor, and thus
far the apointees have been reasonable people who are well versed in
environmental sciences, and tend to leave the decisions to the wildlife
proffesionals. When PETA gains a toehold on the board, it will be the beginning
of the end of hunting and fishing in MA.

Any organization operating against your interests that is as well funded as is
PETA, is quite dangerous.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller