Blood Money

Wildlife conservationists are fed up by Wildlife Services (WS), which is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture.  WS is responsible for the "inhumane" trapping, poisoning, and killing of animals.  Initially WS was deemed necessary for protecting local live stocks and crops by killing the animals that proved to be a "threat." However, according to an article in the New York Times, "WS kills vastly more than nuisance animals some even protected by the Endangered Species Act..." So essentially what this means is that we are paying money to kill animals that we already spend so much time, energy, and money to protect.  Taxpayers pay $100 million a year to use poisons, traps, and guns for aerial shootings.  In the past six years, over 22 million animals have died, and almost half of those have been accidents!  Not only is this an incredibly dangerous, harmful, and unfair program, but it is something that taxpayers are paying big money for.  A point is brought up in the article that it is not justifiable to "clamor about cutting food stamps and defunding Obamacare, because they claim the cost is too great" when so much money is being wasted on something the we are actually wanting to protect. 
At this point, no real action has been taken to solving this problem, but wildlife conservationists want to take it to the courts and Congress to stop it.  Meanwhile, money is continued to be spent on slaughter.

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