PROFITEERING IN GAME 



THERE is not much difference between the man who 

 wants to make a thousand per cent profit on a war 

 order and the freak who wants to kill off all the game 

 to increase the food supply. If anything the compari- 

 son is in favor of the former. He is frankly trying to 

 squeeze some money from the public, the other freak is 

 trying to sneak in a few days of selfish pleasure at the 

 expense of all future generations under the guise of 

 patriotism. 



Kill off the game to increase the food supply ! If such 

 a freak were capable of thought he would, before mak- 

 ing such a suggestion, taken a glance at the list of ani- 

 mals killed daily at any one of the big stockyards, and 

 compared it with the pitiful output of the woods, even 

 if all the wild animals were hunted to extermination, 

 as they most surely would be. Less than one day's sup- 

 ply of meat ! And the price ! Of course the price does 

 not interest such people. Millions of days of recreation 

 for millions of people, and all the myriad pleasures that 

 come from the contact with wild life lost to all future 

 generations. 



The world would be physically, normally and men- 

 tally better off if they w T ent without meat for six months 

 straight than if they permitted such a crime. It is a 

 form of delirium too ridiculous to think about. 



"Why don't some food shark propose eating angle 

 worms? The other fish like them. 



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