Everywhere humans aim weapons at deer, there are also the calls for a different style of erasure: capture and contraception.
The contraception debate asks how animals will be controlled. The assumption it accepts? That they will be controlled.
When advocates become invested in unnatural “solutions” they enter that perpetual struggle to become consultants in animal-control planning, while insisting that the supposed lesser evil is helping animals. The deer, who don’t consent to any of these projects, are caught in a tug-of-war over which is the better deer-erasure method in a given situation…
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Glad to hear about the Quakers!
A tiny oasis amidst the sprawling danger posed by officialdom is always a precious thing. Thank you, Cindy.