PETA... People Eating Tasty Animals! I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.

Steelhead Addict....Your really dissapointing me. I had developed a relativly good impression of you by reading your previous posts and responses until I read your above reply's demonstrating your politics and ignorance.

There is nothing ambiguous about PETA's ultimate objectives. You should visit PETA's site http://www.peta.com/, refresh your memory and then tell the rest of the board that our right to fish, the source of YOUR addiction, is not ultimately jeopordized by the recent trend in the voting public's opinion approving referendums containing "ambiguous" (your words)language.

You state that you, your wife and others like you are concerned only about the "humane treatment of wildlife". If this is so, and you believe that hound hunting and animal trapping is inhumane, explain to me then, the humanity of piercing fish flesh and bone with hooks, fighting them to near exhaustion, dragging them on the beach and bonking them on the head. Even if you argue that you would release the fish, from a fishes perspective, I could construe this treatment with either outcome as being inhumane.

We all have our own opinions on what constitutes humane treatment to animals. We have plenty of current laws, rules and regulations that I believe, adequatly address the issue. I,and I believe the majority of sportspersons do not need the general, uninformed voting populice to make this determination for us, and ultimately our sons and daughters. We are in a tenuous situation at best.