Oregon Moves Forward with Sweeping Ban on Hunting
BY Herschel Smith
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A highly controversial ballot measure that seeks to protect all animal life is inching closer to passing in Oregon.
Known as the PEACE Act, which stands for People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions, the measure could potentially ban hunting, fishing, livestock slaughter, and animal testing, according to Fox 12 Oregon.
People who support the petition say “it’s about recognizing animals can feel pain and updating state law,” a News Watch 12 story explained.
But opponents of the act, such as Amy Patrick, of the Oregon Hunting Association, say if it passes, this legislation could have catastrophic effects on “ranchers, coastline economies, and wildlife management,” as per News Watch 12.
I see that Rachel Rear uses a stock photo for a hunter probably because she doesn’t actually know any hunters. When I see things like this I immediately think of the “rewilding” efforts that lead to things like this.
Wildlife biologists who have studied this their entire careers at DNRs are overlooked and ignored in favor of people who think they know better. No one bothers to think about the fact that predation, starvation and a host of other things cause as much or more pain as managing the herd by culling it.
Men know how to manage the herd size in order to maintain a healthy herd or slightly increase herd size over time, just like there are more trees in the U.S. than when the settlers landed on the shores. And not men who work for the U.N. Rewilding is a UN program. Real wildlife herd management is done by people who care and don’t have an agenda. In a recent commentary at Ammoland entieled Nature isn’t Gentle, Dean Weingarten explains.
It is as if the opponents of human management believe bears to be immortal, never to die except at the hands of human hunters. This is a false, emotional, irrational belief structure. All predators die. Death by human hunter is overwhelmingly less painful than death without human intervention.
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Managed human hunting has evolved an ethos where a prime value is the “clean kill,” which minimizes the suffering of the animal. Compared to being torn apart by a bear, starving to death, or lingering death by accident, death by bullet is quick and painless.
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Humans can manage wildlife populations to achieve greater productivity than when they are not managed. Non-management results in horrific swings between environment-destroying maximum populations and ghastly minimum population deserts devoid of most large mammals. Most of North America was managed by humans with varying degrees of success long before Europeans were able to establish and maintain a presence. Human management aims for high, but not destructive, productivity.
But Oregon is so overrun with ex-Californians that they wouldn’t listen to reason under any circumstances, and would favor the starvation of game animals or human predation by large, dangerous animals over managing the herd like it needs.
It’s the same thing with non-predatory game animals too. Too little hunting causes the herd size to precipitously increase, leading to starvation and diseases. Too much hunting leads to a smaller and less productive herd. DNRs across the country know how to manage that balance. Rachel Rear and her ilk do not.
On February 23, 2026 at 11:12 pm, Bill said:
Effing idiots! If hunting were not allowed, deer populations would periodically starve to death over harsh winters. Many people hunt deer because it puts high quality lean meat on the table, and fills the freezer for not too much money.
What I do advocate is a hunter safety course that emphasizes don’t take the shot unless it is an ethical kill.And states that allow deer hunting with .223s should reconsider, and specify allowable cartridges (.308 in my opinion is ideal). And don’t get tanked up in the woods on your favorite whiskey.
Just because a proposal is on the ballot doesn’t mean it will pass. This country is up against useless idiots that propose these bills, and then vote for candidates that will tank civilization as we know it.
On February 23, 2026 at 11:28 pm, Chas said:
So does that ban include politicians???
On February 24, 2026 at 5:02 am, Jed Sanders said:
The first Sino-American friendship center will open there?
NO shirking on rickshaw cart duty.
On February 24, 2026 at 7:37 am, mike said:
In the early 19th Century, some of the prominent Concord Massachusetts area Transcendentalist (proto-Communists), nutjobs decided to start a farm commune that would not involve any animal labor or animal byproducts. The absurdity of it all given the time in history before internal combustion engines and tractors should have been obvious to them. It fits right in with the modern PETA mindset though.
The farm was an utter failure from the get go. The women would sneak over to the real farms nearby and beg for eggs and such, but that cheating was not enough to keep it going for very long. If the Communists want to try this at a statewide level and finish off a deep blue state, then have at it.
On February 24, 2026 at 9:00 am, CT Ginger said:
I hope proponents of this stupidity dont find themselves colliding with a member of an overpopulated, emaciated deer herd in the dark while driving. Personally, if I have to die tonight, I’d prefer a .308 to the chest to being hit by a Smart Car and lying suffering in the gutter for hours until the coyotes start pulling out my entrails.
But that’s just me. I don’t have the advantage of a BA in queer theory.
On February 24, 2026 at 2:39 pm, Jim said:
A suburb of the District of Criminals in Virginia once outlawed all hunting which included bow hunting for deer. Within 3 years they were completely over run as the population predictably exploded. They eventually allowed the bow hunters back in to manage the herd.
On February 24, 2026 at 5:52 pm, Steady Steve said:
Typical Marxists. In over their heads, and when their schemes don’t work they just double down.
On February 25, 2026 at 1:36 pm, Paul B said:
I only see two deer in that photo along with a burned out forest.
I’m sure Oregon will suffer a similar fate now the they had outlawed shooting deer.
Just more dead deer from the overpopulation of same making starvation inevitable.
On February 27, 2026 at 2:05 am, Mike said:
Wagon trains headed to Oregon in the mid-1800’s, now there will be U-haul caravans leaving in 2026…..