[TN-Bird] Re: north american bird mortality
- From: "Stedman, Stephen" <SStedman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "littlezz@xxxxxxxxx" <littlezz@xxxxxxxxx>, TN-Birds bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:54:31 +0000
450,000 American die every year of cancer; another half million from heart
disease. Funds used to prosecute spishers might be a lot better spent on
research that reduced these major causes of mortality in America.
Let's all remember that the ABA has a code of ethics that puts the welfare of
birds ahead of personal gratification like seeing a life bird; between that
code and the MBTA of 1918, we probably have all the public resources directed
at the spisher problem that it deserves. The real inhibitor of
over-spishing/overtaping is one's personal sense of the welfare for the bird
resource; I do not find that there is as much of this sense of welfare in the
birding community as I would like to see. As in most of the affairs of life,
self-gratification rules all, including how birders treat birds.
Stephen J. Stedman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Tennessee Technological University
2675 Lakeland Dr.
Cookeville, TN 38506
931-528-3820
http://iweb.tntech.edu/sstedman/birds.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bill Pulliam
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 4:42 PM
To: TN-Birds bird
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: north american bird mortality
3000 Americans die every month in highway accidents. So it doesn't matter if I
poison one?
Again, I think these sorts of comparisons are distractions from the issues, not
clarifications of it. We are talking about our own personal individual
actions, and their responsibility and legality.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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