Last Saturday, there was two letters to the editor about the recent bear attack up at the Forests for the World.
I don't agree with either one of them because in my opinion when an animal (wild or not) such as a bear attacks a human being it should be shot dead.
Boo hoo, the poor little baby bears don't have their mom no more.
What if that man was attacked has children and the bear killed him?
Next thing we know these letter writers would be saying "Save the Mosquitoes."
On the other hand, there is a downside to destroying and disposing of that bear and all the other ones they have put down for that matter.
Those bears should have been recycled.
The meat could have been checked for trichinosis and if uninfected given to anyone who would eat it as there are people who do hunt, shoot and bear bear meat. (They claim it's like pork.)
There are other people who would and do buy other parts of bears for medicine etc.
That money could go back into conservation to baby-sit orphaned bears, for example.
And why not?
After all, we human beings as a society recycle cadavers and rightfully so because without putting dead meat to work (as morbid as it sounds) medicine would not be what it is today.
In closing and to coin a phrase from Mr. Giesinger's letter: "Give your head a shake."
Eugene Fetterly
Prince George
