The Push to Humanize Wildlife
What once was an absurd thought has begun to take hold and is slowly gaining traction, and the societal, and more importantly, legal, acceptance or rejection of this still-absurd idea will impact every endeavor involving an animal – from hunting and ranching to fashion and pet ownership.
That idea: animals are inherently equivalent to humans, and therefore deserve the same civil rights. Think personhood.
The premise has been debated since Pythagoras and Aristotle. The 19th Century saw the rise of early legal arguments in the form of animal-welfare laws. But it wasn’t until the 20th Century, and more pointedly the 1970s, that the modern animal-rights movement began to use today’s legal system in the U.S. and abroad to advance their moral belief that killing an animal is equivalent to killing a human.
For more than four decades, the Sportsmen’s Alliance has fought to protect hunting from this belief system, which would ultimately end our way of life and doom wildlife and conservation in the process.

The animal-rights movement manipulates state legislatures, state and federal court systems and the ballot box to advance their beliefs and to end hunting, fishing and trapping. But now, more than ever, the animal-rights movement is gaining steam with more and more legal footing and sympathetic mainstream media coverage Read more