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October 06, 2008

Alaska and Aerial Killing of Wolves

I don't know where other Buddhist bloggers stand on this issue,

but it seems a clear one to me even without a disposition toward

Buddhist ethics. It doesn't seem to me that Alaska would be a place

where such indiscriminate killing of wolves would be the least necessary

to either control their population (an argument often made for other

animals), or to protect human interests (property, livestock, etc.).

Moreover, the methods used are cruel in the extreme: