Understand the Value of Sharing

Unlike the Animal Rightists that tend to “Like” and “Share” every little bit of animal rights propaganda, anti-hunting, anti-sustainable use or such like garbage that comes across their screen with all and sundry, we (conservationists, hunters, fishermen, falconers, pro sustainable users, sane rational people), tend to nod our heads in agreement and carry on with our lives knowing that there are still a few sane rational people out there that think like us.

Unfortunately if we do comment we tend to preach to the converted or fight among each other as we’re happy and believe in for example, the conservation benefits of sustainable hunting, but God forbid how dare you believe in, for example, that Walking with Lions has any conservation benefits, or that a legal trade in rhino horn might just be a better option than the failed bans.

It is not by chance that we squabble amongst each other.

The animal rights movement is an orchestrated movement that strategize (the art of making war) and network with each other.

Their first strategy worldwide was as old as time itself – divide and conquer.

My good friend Ron Thomson warned of this looming animal rights tsunami in the early 1980. Most ignored Ron’s warning and relegated him to the lunatic fringe, and here we find ourselves today wondering can we stop the tide?

I think part and parcel of the 101 Animal Rights course is the principle of multi-level marketing, just after the “Frontal Lobotomy is not painful and won’t affect your personality” module. As we nod our heads in agreement muttering to ourselves “bloody lunatics, people will never buy into this animal rights shit and they will never, not in a thousand years, influence the public or get people to start eating rabbit food”.

We forgot man is a herd animal. He flocks together for safety, acceptance and comfort.

He doesn’t like to be the odd one out and before long he is just another sheep bleating along crying about the big bad wolf which he has never seen nor understands but he has the flock approval and he starts “Like”ing and “Share”ing all the animal rights drivel without much thought besides thinking maybe, now at least, he might have a chance with the cute little vegan girl down the road that is starving herself chewing on grass dreaming of the days when she used to tuck into a big juicy steak and the world was not as politically correct as she and her friends are trying to make it.

As our animal rights activists use social media to its full potential the most inane posts and comments go “viral” and the herd grows while we are left floundering wondering why no one wants to come over to our side of the paddock to play?

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By Trevor Oertel