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Yay, vegan recipes! *ahem* Anyway, good idea promoting this Lobo! As soon as I get done posting this, I'll sign. I agree with everything you said, and I think I'd like to add something also. For some reason, people think that pigs and cows and animals that humans eat are the only things killed. Well, they aren't. Why do think animals go into extinction? Ok, my arnt is done. 3nodding

Not a Vegan, but Idaho peeves me off enormously. There is plenty of game for humans and predators alike. There will never be enough game for all the humans who want to hunt every single year, and no hunter ACTUALLY wants sick, weak herds to hunt from. Humans prefer to select healthy animals to hunt, and without predators to keep the herds in shape, they will be out of luck.

Promote education and intelligence--predators help hunters, too. No one loses when you protect predators.
There are many ways to protect livestock from predation without killing predators...in fact, those ways all work tremendously better. (Look up 'predator-friendly ranching'). Animals are individuals, and many populations of predators have culture. This means you can train the animals in the area to leave livestock alone, and they will pass on the aversion to their offspring. It works.
There's an increasing push toward educating landowners on how they can actually make MORE money from their land by protecting wildlife and wildlife habitat.
Ranching, private land ownership, and hunting do not have to be at odds with conservation, and SHOULD not be, if it is to be successful. I disapprove of groups like PETA, ALF, and other organizations which promote an "all or nothing" attitude toward conservation and animal rights, and promote the myth that human use and wildlife use are mutually exclusive. There are good reasons to protect trackless wilderness, but it's a tremendous mistake to consider habitat already occupied by humans to be 'lost'.
By presenting the issue as 'all or nothing' and being so loud, people actually BELIEVE it is all or nothing--and they choose nothing. Those groups need to shut up and sit down so that some compromises can be achieved, and the public can be educated on how they CAN have their cake, and eat it too.
Hunting can benefit predators...how many people do you think know THAT?
(Why? Because sometimes prey animal populations boom. In a natural cycle, the population boom overwhelms the predator population--they reproduce more and their population rises, but much more slowly. In the meantime, the high prey animal population devastates the vegetation. The predator population catches up, winter hits, vast numbers of prey animals starve...leaving the overinflated predator population with prey in a 'bust' cycle...and thus the predators starve. In some cases, the predator 'bust' following such a cycle is so severe that the species can become locally extinct. This is natural...but in today's world, with habitat so severely reduced, the impact cannot always be absorbed--by allowing increased human hunting of prey species that are overpopulating, the predator population does not rise as high, the vegetation is not devastated, and both species make it through the winter intact).

If you want to save predators, you have to convince the people who want them gone that predators are GOOD FOR THEIR INTERESTS. What you have going for you, on your side, is that it is completely true.

All the old myths have to be torn down. Wolves are good for hunters. Prairie dogs are good for ranchers. Ranchers can be good for wildlife. Hunters can be good for predators...you see how much damage the all or nothing approach can do?

The point of this rant? Just to try to get a few more people who really do care to see the real solutions, and perhaps spread the word from there.

What's that Native American proverb? Something like "Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money."

I think that applies all too well.

Wolves shouldn't be persecuted for behaving naturally. Any threat that wolves pose to humans is because they are adapting to human encroachment on their environment. I hope we as a species can correct our mistakes before it's too late.

Well, I might. But then again, I've eaten kangaroo jerky. ninja

For one thing, the petition is not on PETA it is on thepetitionsite...
Second: Why the hell does everyone hate PETA?...

Some people mistake PETA for ALF. ALF people are the people who go around and dump blood on fur coats and act semi-crazy for animal rights. PETA, on the other hand, mostly promotes not hurting animals and being vegan, and avoiding, at all costs, the harming or mistreatment of any animal. Every individual member of PETA has their own ideas on what should be done, so blame them, not Newkirk.
Thank you.

From all that I read, they do euthanize pets, because this is the real world and not all of the animals can be saved, but its better than a life of hell. And the mass euthanasia was from incompetant peta volunteers or employees and they were banned from PETA... that's what I've read.

Actually, I believe they were.