Michael Vick's Actions Were Cowardly, What About The Hunters In Alaska?

Michael Vick acted cowardly when he had his dog fighting ring and he has paid his debt to society by spending time in prison for his actions. Yet, there are still some animal rights supporters who do not believe that Vick deserved a second chance in the NFL.

Vick signed a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles in hopes to resurrect his NFL career. I'm hoping that Vick can learn from his mistake and grow as a human being and help people not make the same mistakes he did.

With that, there's still outrage going on with the signing. In fact Jen Utley the wife of Philadelphia Phillies star Chase Utley is a supporter of the Pennsylvania SPCA and wanted to open up a dialogue with Vick, but was not able to.

This came from an article on Yahoo titled "Jen Utley Isn't Afraid to Hound Eagle's Signing of Michael Vick." Written by 'Duk.

Yet, even tough Vick has paid his debt to society he is still very controversial and I understand why there is still outrage when it comes to Vick; but what about what's happening in Alaska thanks to former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin?

Where's the outrage over the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska? I didn't even know about it until a few months ago after I got an e-mail from the Defenders of Wildlife and even then it hasn't really gotten any limelight.

I think it's funny that people will condemn Vick for being a coward, but since the Governor approves a measure of aerial hunting it's OK to go up into the sky and shoot defenseless animals. Does that even make sense?

By the way the reasons the aerial hunt was put on so that Alaskans could bring home a few more moose and caribou. From what I read from the government site in Alaska there's anywhere from between 7,700 to 11,200 wolves in Alaska. Not a huge population of wolves to begin with.

Even by that logic it doesn't make sense and how can anyone support aerial hunting to begin with? The only people who shoot any animals, it doesn't matter if it's a wolf or a bear, they are cowards!

More disturbing is the logic on why the wolves are hunted. It's so a few more hunters can have meat to either put on their tables or sell.

Though according to the Alaskan wildlife website there are over a million caribou and I didn't find the number of moose there are in Alaska, but I did read the amount of carcasses that are brought back from hunts. Approximately 6,000-8,000 moose are taken each year which is about 3.5 million pounds of meat.

So, hunters take out almost the amount of the entire population of wolves with the amount of moose that are killed.

Maybe it's time to stop protesting Vick and start protesting the barbaric hunt in Alaska.