Yet Another Reason To Hate The Wild Meat Crowd

I have previously mentioned my dislike for the "wild meat" crowd in an earlier post about Ohio. If you are not up on current American fads, the wild meat crowd consists of people who don't like factory farming and insist that their meat is hunted in the wild so that they can get "back to nature". They usually live in a city and have enough spare cash to have a second home in flyover country. The cool kids just don't seem to have any sense of cause and effect. In this case, what happens when you take away all the small patch farmers and replace them with vacationers and hunters.

In this case the story involves coyotes. You wouldn't know it from reading the news. The news ended with the below.

http://www.k105.com/2020/02/20/13-year-old-eastern-ky-boy-killed-in-animal-attack/

For the rest of the story, you had to have local sources. The real story is that a 13 year old boy was killed by a pack of coyotes, injuring his grandfather in the process.

What does this have to do with the wild meat and vacation house crowd?

Well, back in the day of the small patch farmers, coyotes were killed on sight. They were a nuisance animal. They killed livestock. Add to this the fact that there were fewer people, fewer hunters, and a lot of deer. A small number of coyotes and a large amount of food. This leads to a fairly peaceful situation.

Now, consider the current situation. The small patch farmers have decreased in number. There's just not that many people shooting coyotes anymore. A lot of the land has gone from agricultural to vacation and hunting land. This gives the coyotes more land to roam on. Then comes the wild meat crowd. They only hunt game animals, after all, they have morals. So, the deer population decreases. Suddenly, we have a large coyote population, without a lot of fear of humans, not having been hunted recently, without food. The outcome is fairly obvious.

I would say that the local Kentuckians would soon fix the imbalance, but the local I got the coyote story from didn't know that coyotes could be hunted at all, let alone all year long.