Hunting Blinds from Behind Bars
According to internal sources, the Saarbrücken correctional facility is using taxpayer money to have inmates build hunting blinds and other hunting equipment. Rehabilitation through animal cruelty? PETA is calling for an end to this practice. According to PETA, the “rehabilitation” of prison inmates should not involve the production of equipment used to kill wildlife. Compassion and empathy are among the most important qualities human beings need.
«Confession from the high seat»
According to internal sources, the Saarbrücken correctional facility is using taxpayer money to have inmates build hunting blinds and other hunting equipment .
Rehabilitation through animal cruelty?
PETA is calling for an end to this practice. According to PETA, the “rehabilitation” of prison inmates should not involve the production of equipment used to kill wildlife .
Compassion and empathy are among the most important qualities human beings need. However, manufacturing hunting blinds, “gut hooks” and “game gallows” is not a suitable means of fostering greater empathy.
Nadja Michler, wildlife specialist at PETA
Recreational hunting is unnecessary
Scientific studies show that recreational hunting is not an effective means of permanently regulating wildlife populations. Prof. Dr. Josef Reichholf also sees no necessity for recreational hunting from a wildlife biology perspective.
The more than 395,000 recreational hunters in Germany are contrasted by only around 1,000 professional hunters, primarily forestry officials. A representative Forsa survey confirms that 49% of the population opposes recreational hunting.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
