New York Post columnist Ken Moran hits the jackpot in the opening of a recent column,
For years, hunters quietly have helped the needy by donating part of their harvest to food banks throughout New York and the rest of the country.
On the other side of the coin, you have animal rights groups like PETA and HSUS who raise millions of dollars, most of which is spent on salaries for officers and publicity for their organizations.
You think?
Moran notes that over the past four years, two New York groups — the Venison Donation Coalition and SCI’s Sportsmen Against Hunger — have donated more than 250,000 pounds of venison that have been distributed through New York’s Food Bank network. That’s about 1 million servings of venison, according to Moran.
Of course animal rights activists are free to disagree. For example, I can imagine a PETA activist explaining that PETA’s video of half-naked women wrestling in tofu is a far, far better thing than feeding the hungry. And, given PETA’s ethical priorities, it would be hard to argue with that logic.
Source:
Hunters’ Venison Donations Hit 230 Million Meals. Ken Moran, New York Post, November 14, 2004.