Whitetail deer in populous areas can be a significant danger to motorists and can devastate suburban neighborhoods by browsing ornamental bushes and shrubs. Additionally, they facilitate the spread of Lyme disease, a significant illness in many areas.
Activists from a wide spectrum of society recently assembled in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to protest the culling, outright killing, of 63 deer by agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hunters believe they have a much better way of controlling populations with modified hunting programs that have been shown effective in Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland. Daniel Xu explains the program an the protest in this post from OutdoorHub.
The phrase “deer lives matter” is generally used in jest, but activists used the slogan quite seriously to protest a controversial deer cull near Ann Arbor, Michigan. About 60 animal rights activists gathered in downtown Ann Arbor last weekend to host a memorial service for the 63 deer killed in a recent cull.
“In a universal capacity, we’re asking Ann Arbor to return to a path of peace, and this particular day we are offering a memorial to the deer that have been shot as a result of the Ann Arbor deer cull,” Shunahsii Rose, who organized the memorial rally, told Mlive.
“People who are here are from many different spiritual traditions and different communities, and I felt like it was important to have an interfaith acknowledgement of the longing for peace in our city.”
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