Deer cull leaves anti's in mourning (4/19/2002)

A candlelight vigil was held outside of a township hall in New Jersey this week as a group of citizens gathered to “grieve for the violence.” This was not a group of families troubled by an increase in the neighborhood crime rate, but a group of animal rights activists who sought to “publicly mourn the death of deer.”

In Millburn Township, New Jersey, approximately a dozen anti-hunting activitsts congregated to show their contempt for a deer cull in the neighborhood. Millburn Township has an excessive deer population, and the herd was recently culled by a company called Deer Management Systems to lower the numbers. Some deer were also removed by trap and transfer because of restictions on controlled hunts.

“Guns and violence have no place in our community,” said animal advocate Janet Piszar. “We feel compassion for the animals that the township committee seems to feel have no right to share our environment.”

Perhaps sportsmen and other hunt supporters should be mourning, too. We should be mourning the loss of thousands of tax payer dollars that are doled out to companies like Deer Management Systems that charge $190 per head or Fauna Research Inc. in New York, which charges $100 per head to trap and transfer deer that could have been taken during a controlled hunt.

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