I learn so many interesting things reading letters to the editor.

Ed Morris (Sept. 25) he closed his anti-bear baiting opinion with: “Providing a hungry creature — be it bear, deer or human — with food so it can be killed is wrong.”

I had no idea there is an open hunting season on people.

Or how a skinned bear looks like naked people as offered by Heidi Chadbourne (Sept. 28).

She told about seeing two skinned bear recently that looked like people. Chadbourne also shared, “Each had a large close-range entry and exit wound in the heart area.”

Apparently the shooter(s) had sense enough to use enough gun to be as certain as possible of near instant death to minimize/eliminate suffering.

Chadbourne told us she is a nonhunter with no settled opinion about Question 1, but did state she has raised and slaughtered her own livestock.

With regard to the two bears, she said, “What kind of threat did these young animals pose? What sporting chance did they have? What amount of life did they miss, being taken so young?”

When people raise livestock, they take perhaps baby cows, baby sheep, baby pigs, baby goats, all of which had a mother.

They provide the animals with adequate shelter, protection from predation, good water and food, making them surrogate moms or dads.

Then the comes a time, when the farmers’ stomachs rumble, or they have financial need.

How did Chadbourne slaughter her dependent creatures? With firearm; sledge to the head; tether and slit the throat (as is the practice in some religions) and watch the struggle as life runs out the wound.

I ask: What threat did these animals pose? What sporting chance did they have? What amount of life did they miss, being taken so young?

Michael Cameron

Winthrop

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