Unfortunately, this is a true story, with true numbers. The California Department of Fish & Wildlife hands out licenses to hunt and fish, looks at some numbers of how many MORE animals they can kill, and just generally enables the state to kill a lot. (Notice they say Fish & Wildlife, not Game, to make the liberals happy.)
The USDA kills 3 billion animals a year, so it’s kind of a competition.
So Daniel Richards, Director of California F&G, likes to kill, too! He went to Idaho to “bag” or shoot a mountain lion, because no lions own guns there, and it’s legal for everyone. It is NOT legal in California, and as President of California Fish & Game it was pretty underhanded and unprofessional for him to say, oh, California sucks, even though that’s my job.
So then he ate the animal (or, rather, lied that he ate him), so he could say none of the animal went to “waste”. 🙂 Daily Mail wrote:
‘It doesn’t taste like chicken,’ Mr Richards, 59, recently told conservative talk radio hosts John and Ken in Los Angeles. ‘The closest thing is pork loin. It’s a white meat. It’s really good, and actually in frontier times it was a delicacy because it’s tough to bag one of them.’
Ted Rall, who was an editorial cartoonist for the LA Times, even though he lives in NY and has only been out here in LA a few times, did his own take on this subject. I’ll be honest: mine came out first….
Kind of a stretch for Rall to be a regular in the Los Angeles Times, anyway, am I right? So the Times is so desperate for good cartoons they have to go to the east coast??
So Daniel M. Richards refused to resign from his state job here, but was forced to step down later that year, in August of 2012. Coward.
From my weekly cartoon feature on California news & politics. Try out this California cartoon for powerpoint, state journals, newsletters, blogs, books, etc. Details here.
ID #120326p Caption: Mountain lions are protected in California by Fish & Game. So Daniel M. Richards, Pres of Fish & game in California, killed one in Idaho. He claimed that he ate it! Next up, he’ll shoot himself in the foot! ( Daniel P Richards stands on top of dead mountain lion and says California’s a drag, and clutches his bucket list. Cats taste better with catsup! (Side note: Fish & Game killed 100,000 animals in Calif last year. Let’s make it 200,000 in 2013!)
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