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Originally Posted by HimandMe
I'm glad we live in a world where our grandchildren can still see animals in their own habitat.
If you look at the world population charts of humans and how we are doubling population in short order....you realize something no one is talking about at least not often or loudly enough.....and we worry there are too many bears. Hello?
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Hysteric predictions about human overpopulation extend back to the 1798 publication of Essay on The Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus. In the 1960s Paul Ehrlich wrote a series of dire predictions about overpopulation. He predicted death by starvation of one-fifth of the world's population.
Ehrlich advocated forced birth control and spiking foreign aid food with antifertility drugs. He predicted food rationing in the United States and that the Pope would announce that all good Catholics have a responsibility to drastically restrict their reproductive activities. The Pope would give his blessing to abortion and all methods of contraception.
Well.........we aren't there yet, and that was almost a half-century ago.
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On the subject of bears, there have been multiple bear attacks on humans in the suburbs of nearby Orlando. I'm sure that folks over there agree that a thinning of the bear population is in order.
To the northeast of The Villages is the Ocala National Forest. On some highways through the Forest you will see Beware of the Bears signs posted on the roads, and in some small communities in that area Bear Proof Garbage Cans are required by law.
Also, yes, I've eaten bear meat in the form of bear jerky; similar to beef jerky or deer jerky. OK, but not something that I prefer.
I support the bear hunt that the state has authorized.