Dear C.A.S.H. Members and Supporters,
You’ve probably heard the cliché, “Every day is Earth Day to an environmentalist.” Well, it’s true actually, at least to a true environmentalist—the kind of person who makes daily choices based solely on their concern for our planet and the life it supports. The individual, for example, who chooses not to eat factory-farmed animals because of the enormous amount of abuse (not to mention its gargantuan carbon footprint) inherent in those Styrofoam and shrink-wrapped packages that clog the sprawling meat isles across the country; or the person who does not hunt because wild animals are a part of the living Earth he loves and respects.
Eager to look like the sensible ones, conventional environmentalists sometimes assume a wobbly, half-hearted stance of dismissing, rather than embracing, the animal rights movement. On the other hand, dedicated animal rights advocates don’t shy away from calling themselves environmentalists. They know that only by adopting a vegan lifestyle can one truly be an environmentalist. Vegans understand that the Earth cannot sustain billions upon billions of hungry bipedal carnivores without human beings wreaking havoc on all the non-human animals and they recognize that the surest way to ease suffering for all is to eat lower on the food chain—in keeping with our proven primate heritage.
Here at C.A.S.H. we are trying to educate people about the plight of our country’s wildlife and nature itself via the C.A.S.H. Blog, C.A.S.H. Facebook page and through our website, updated daily with the numerous hunting accidents and violations happening daily this time of year.
Contrary to the wackiest of all their clichés, “hunters are the best environmentalists,” is dead wrong. Hunting is in fact the antithesis of environmentalism. The very notion of the gas-guzzling, beer-can-tossing hunter as an environmentalist is laughable even to them. Show me a hunter who is not antagonistic toward the rights of animals and I’ll show you a rare duck indeed.
Jim
Jim Robertson
President, the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting
