Gored Utah Man Finds Out That Payback Really Is Hell
PETA
Written by Christina Matthies
Imagine your legs giving out as something sharp tears through your skin, shredding muscle and penetrating bones. Your heart races with panic as you see your own blood. You feel yourself growing weak, and you try to catch your breath, but you can’t move.
This is what deer, elk, moose, and other animals experience when they are shot down by hunters every year all over the U.S. And it’s exactly what Utah hunter Bradley Greenwood felt when he slipped and was gored in the face and neck on the antlers of a 700-pound elk he’d killed only moments before.
Greenwood isn’t the only hunter who’s hurt himself drooling over a “big rack.” With plans to place a billboard in Vernal, Utah, that shows an elk with blood dripping from his antlers and reads, “Payback Is Hell. Leave Animals Alone!” PETA is bringing attention to the fact that hunting draws blood on both sides. Every year, hunters hurt or kill themselves, friends, family, and even strangers innocently hiking through the woods.
Hunting isn’t necessary for human survival, and so-called “wildlife management” is a myth that often intentionally inflates “game” populations, rather than the reverse. Wildlife populations are self-regulating, responding to naturally occuring disease, the availability of food and habitat, and prey-predator relationships. Hunters hunt for the thrill of it, often injuring animals who manage to escape, only to die later from blood loss, infection, or predation.
Now that a recovering Greenwood knows what it feels like to gasp what you believe to be your last breaths, maybe he’ll stop killing animals and agree with PETA that compassion feels better than (bad) karma.
Order a FREE vegan kit: http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/free-vegetarian-starter-kit.aspx
Take PETA’s Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide along with you next time you head to the store! The handy guide will help you find humane products at a glance. Order a FREE copy HERE
Want to do more than go vegan? Help others to do so! Click on the below for nominal, or no, fees to vegan literature that you can use to convince others that veganism is the only compassionate route to being an animal friend.
Vegan Outreach has a suggested donation: http://www.veganoutreach.org/catalog/index.html
PETA: http://www.petacatalog.com/catalog/Literature-39-1.html
Action for Animals has a very low price : http://store.afa-online.org/home.php?cat=284
Have questions? Click HERE
you mess with the bulls or elks
you are going to get gored.
find something kind and safe to do
when you get bored!
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
Looks good on him.
LikeLike
I would have to agree.
LikeLike
in the immortal words of rod stewart “he wears it well”
LikeLike
you mess with the bulls or elks
you are going to get gored.
find something kind and safe to do
when you get bored!
LikeLike
I love it! Thank you, hon, .
LikeLike
you are so welcome 🙂 and thank you!
LikeLike
Unfortunately, hunters & matadors & those who run with the bulls think they are superior, and that is man’s true folly! Will they ever learn or develop empathy for these awesome beasts of Nature? Doubtful.
LikeLike
Karma!
LikeLike
I agree! I only wish the animal survived.
LikeLike
the biggest bee-atch 😉
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Sherlockian's Blog.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Wolf Is My Soul.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Girl for Animal Liberation.
LikeLike
Yeah right. It takes a real “warrior” (in stealth and great distance) to spray steel bullets with lethal force to rip into the heart & brain of a powerful, majestic Elk who didn’t even see it coming! No animal deserves to be needlessly, ruthlessly KILLED within the boundaries of its own habitat in cold, cruel, calculated ambush. Man’s intrusion into wildlife’s territory disturbs the balance of Nature itself, and is no less pardonable than any other “home invasion”. True justice and karma was only denied by the fact that the “hunter” himself survived.
LikeLike
Very well-said, Catwhispurrer, I agree. Thank you.
LikeLike