Anti's Call For Deer Birth Control In Park
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Anti's Call For Deer Birth Control In Park





While state and local officials prepare for a hunt to scale back a Pennsylvania park’s burgeoning deer herd, anti-hunters are protesting the hunt and lobbying for the use of unproven, contraceptive drugs on the animals.

On Jan. 11, Norristown Farm Park in eastern Pennsylvania will hold the third in a sequence of successful hunts to reduce a deer herd that has devastated vegetation and other habitat. Anti-hunters oppose the cull and have planned a protest to begin at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning at the park entrance.

Despite comments from Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser that “hunting is the primary means of managing deer populations,” animal rights activists are convinced that deer birth control, not hunting, should be implemented to control deer herds.

Anti’s ignore that the Food and Drug Administration has not approved deer fertility drugs for human consumption and that there have been no findings to ensure that other wildlife species are not adversely affected.

“Beyond the health and safety issues, deer birth control programs are expensive and inefficient,” said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance President Bud Pidgeon. “Statistics show that treatments average $2,943 per deer, and states that have tried the drugs, including Connecticut, Minnesota and Ohio, all reported subsequent escalation in deer numbers in target areas.”

Feaser concurs. “There’s no scientific evidence that birth control works in a free ranging deer herd,” he said. For Wednesday’s hunt, sportsmen will be allowed to take only antlerless deer with single-slug shotguns.

Sportsmen can contact Ron Ahlbrandt, director of parks in Montgomery County at (610) 278-3555 to let him know you support the hunt as a means of controlling the deer population.
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