The group around Dr. Volker Böhning, President of the German Hunting Association (DJV), has filed a criminal complaint against a hunting opponent.
It has long been known that recreational hunters are not the brightest candles on the Christmas tree. Nor is it a surprise that they have an aversion to fact-based and scientific findings, and that they prefer to stalk through the undergrowth without any apparent purpose.
Since 2002, the perpetrator of violence Volker Böhning has been President of the State Hunting Association of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and since 7 June 2019, as successor to Hartwig Fischer, President of the German Hunting Association.
This hunting association (DJV), riddled with complexes, has now filed a criminal complaint in Germany on behalf of all recreational hunters against «self-proclaimed animal rights activist and radical hunting opponent from Hesse. On his Facebook page, he compares hunters, among other things, to psychopaths and child molesters,» according to the website of the DJV.
…This too has since been scientifically proven: hunters suffer from the same psychosis as child molesters and rapists.., is the bone of contention with science.
Since when are scientific findings, psychological studies, facts and case examples considered hate speech?
«According to media lawyer Dr. Heiko Granzin, the specific case constitutes a collective insult – but it also affects each individual hunter personally. In addition, the hunting opponent faces prosecution for incitement to hatred,» the German Hunting Association continues.
Facts instead of hunters’ tall tales
Hunting associations cultivate above all a culture of disrespect and violence – precisely the opposite of what a civilised person in our society should aspire to.
The killing of animals by today's modern recreational hunters stems primarily from greed, profiteering, ignorance, pleasure-seeking, indifference, resentment, envy, self-importance, ostentation, boastfulness, jealousy, arrogance, lack of knowledge, cupidity, presumption, selfishness, ill will, and a general contempt for living beings.
Wildlife in Germany also suffers because of recreational hunters. The people from the shadowy world of hunting circles will stop at nothing to manipulate democracy, press and freedom of expression, the justice system, and more.
Hunting president Volker Böhning is not concerned with any form of ethics, animal welfare, nature conservation, and so on when it comes to recreational hunting. To this day, recreational hunters kill at least four out of every six million wild animals in Germany only for them to end up in the bin — something that is, in truth, a serious criminal matter. After all, who eats fox, raccoon, cat, swans, or carrion crows?
Even Fellwechsel GmbH, founded by the German Hunting Association to create the impression that killed foxes, badgers, or martens are being processed, is nothing more than window dressing: a mere two to three percent of all killed fur-bearing animals are ever utilized at all — 97 out of every 100 foxes are disposed of or hung as bait in a hedge beside the hunting stand. This is despite the fact that for decades, countless studies and case examples have demonstrated the absurdity — not only of fox hunting.
Recreational hunting harms biodiversity
Recreational hunting has a long tradition of abusing and damaging our cultural landscape. Today’s recreational hunters are increasingly involved in a wide variety of forms of animal cruelty and disruption of fauna. Recreational hunting repeatedly ensures that species diversity and biodiversity are shaped in a manipulative and unnatural way. Hunting statistics speak a clear language. Hunting most often does not mean fewer animals, but more births. Recreational hunting is the number two enemy of species diversity, after agriculture. The entire countryside is blighted by the negatively charged hunting stands.
Recreational hunters cause millions in damages to agriculture and forestry every year. This should rightly change in the future — also to the benefit of taxpayers.
Authentic animal and nature conservationists, as well as politicians, are increasingly making it a priority to criticize recreational hunters for their contributions to the distress of wildlife and the disruption of their habitats. More and more people are realizing that recreational hunting is a form of uncultured behavior and animal cruelty. In many countries, hunting bans, hunting restrictions, the abolition of hunting, and similar measures are either being developed or have already been implemented.
The demand by many animal and nature conservation organizations for a general hunting ban for recreational hunters and the call for professional wildlife management reflects the spirit of the times. The unethical hunters' yarns and the junk biology of recreational hunters are based on a dangerous half-knowledge, to the detriment of flora and fauna. This is also evident in the polemical, fear-driven publications of recreational hunters, which are intended to stir ordinary people up against any kind of change.
Recreational hunting has failed. For decades, recreational hunters have been trying to regulate wildlife populations, something they have yet to achieve in any civilized manner. Under the yoke of recreational hunters, wildlife has virtually no right to a natural death or recovery from illness. Recreational hunting causes psychological suffering to wildlife. Fear, shock, and terror of being shot are their lifelong companions. Recreational hunters notoriously disturb the habitats of wildlife. Wildlife does not like recreational hunters. Wildlife can recognize good people and avoid bad ones — they flee from recreational hunters.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Psychology of recreational hunting we put research, motives and social consequences into perspective. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
