Yikes...."bizarre" isn't quite the word I had in mind to describe those quotes...some of them are just downright incomprehensible.

It's always interesting to see how celebrities view and interpret our great sports--mainly hunting and fishing--and the issues that are tangential to those activities.

I've found that, for a group of individuals that is supposedly so worldly, many people of fame are grossly misinformed and hypocritical when it comes to pertinent information about conservation and animal ethics.

Profiles of celebrities who are actually intelligently conversant and knowledgeable about the outdoors are always appreciated. But it's equally as important to read stuff like this--the other end of the spectrum--if we hope to show others that hunters and anglers are a mindful, well-versed community.

Great stuff!

Wow some of those are pretty ridiculous. You have to wonder if any of those comments where thought about before they were spoken.

Dumb-ass celebs make me sick to my stomach

My entertainment, peace, and sustenance is hunting and fishing v. supporting these entertainment idiots. I'm not giving these idiots my money!

These idiots will swear to be vegetarians yet they will use all kinds of animal products and wear leather sandals.

My only reason to respond is to ask everyone to take your kids hunting / fishing and don't let them be brainwashed by watching too much TV.

I have to say... I am usually not a Rush fan but outbidding on that lobster cracks me up.

The ones that make me sad are the humane society people. It is too bad that an organization that could do stuff I would really support (spay/neuter programs, pet adoption, etc) has to be so against something else important to me (hunting and fishing).

I don,t care what these so called icons say to the media. I,ll bet if they were starving, a nightcrawler with a so called central nervous system would still look like a french fry to them.

The liberal vegetarians forget that every veggie they eat was protected by a farmer who kills animals that threaten his crops!

The comments of these Star's just prove that they are not as well educated as a they would have us believe. If they could read maybe the missed the parts in the bible that talk about have sex out of wedlock or be truthful or again that all the creatures of the earth, water and sky where placed here for use. Most people look at a package of beef, pork, and chicken just think it came that way, some one had to kill it, clean it, and package it for them. Hunter's that use the animals they harvest. Cut out the middle man and provide the purest and best protein for there family and friends and are not afraid to do the work for themselves.

How come it was ok for Jesse Ventura to beat up and inflict pain on Humans (phoney or not) and Clint Eastwood to kill humans with an oversize pistol, because they where bankrobbers and needed his bleeding heart soceity to help them. I always wondered why Jesse wore a feather boa and now why one of my former favorite actors doesn't wear one himself.PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals.God gave us dominion over birds and animals.
SteveG

hunters also keep the number of wild animals under control. how many car deer accidents would there be if there was no hunting at all? how many expensive cars (many owned by celebrities) would be damaged or destroyed by car deer accidents each year? how much would the insurance companies raise your car insurance just because of the increasse in claims because of the increase in car deer (and other creature) accidents?

hunting is one way of controling over population.
overpoulation promotes diseases that can destroy whole poulations of animals and without some kind of control, the diseases will run rampant.

You must remember that these people and the comments that they make are products of our society. If we did not live as we do now they would not even have the option to make choices such as these. One hundred years or more ago the vegan lifestyle would have been ridiculous. Today it is lifestyle choice and one they are allowed to make in our country, it doesn't mean that everything they spout has to be taken as gospel though.

You must remember what our greatest president of the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan had to say about the liberals something like ' It's not that liberals don't know anything, it's just that most of what they know is wrong'
These people don't know very much and don't know that they don't know. In their mind, they are the elite intellectuals and we are the dolts. If you have a chance to talk with them and present them with facts and true data, they will try to dismiss it as flawed or lies. If you persist with the arguments they will resort to name calling and venomous accusations. Then there is political correctness where you need to be silenced because they are offended by your views. You have no right to be offended by their views but they do by yours.
Read Orwell's book "Animal Farm" one of the rules "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Your classical liberal mindset.

I believe the solution would be for everyone to go naked, bare foot, and eat grass ! This would be alot easier for farmers, they would only need to raise one crop. (grass) Grass is very indestructable, it can be found from the Artic to the dessert. Of course we would all have to live in a warm place, so we don't freeze in winter ! Could get pretty crowded down south ! We could have hole in the seats of our cars with lines running to a fuel cell, and we could power our cars with gasses produced from digesting grass !!

I can think of two reasons I'd listen to Pam over you!
To be fair to PETA they are willing to compromise( gas chambers for KFC chickens useing C02 for example) and infact do kill a fair amount of animals themselves(put to sleep).

Just goes to show that money and fame won’t cure ignorance.

The missing link that most of the anti's don't seem to realize is without the hunter and fisherman, and the money that he pays through voluntary taxation on practically every piece of equipment (Pittman-Robertson funds), there would be very little wildlife sustained. The humane society, like so many other domestic animal welfare groups, have done a real disservice to their cause by opening their platform to ban what we as outdoorsmen cherish. They would have maintained a far greater financial ability to sustain the protection of abused domestic pets had they not watched so many Disney movies that they now believe every animal that lives with a cranial cavity lives, feels, and thinks like man.
I would like them to view nature in it's truest form, where a pack of wolves hamstring a group of "Bambies" and leaves them to die from the damaged they caused. I have witnessed this while hunting. They didn't eat any of them for dinner either.
Mr. Smith, your focus is so narrow and you have such a blind view on the inhumane reality of nature that it is probably not worth the time it would take to educate you to the real truths of nature. Mother nature usually inflicts a far greater pain to animals in the sequence of survival of the fittest than man with his hunting or fishing could ever do. For you folks to live in your world of make believe that animals feel and think like you do, well, in your case they probably do.

Man what is the world coming to!!
Sooner or later us outdoorsmen are gunna get over run by pansys!!

What is Mr. Pacelle doing to that poor dog?

their all retarded when i go to hunt i hunt for meat not for the pleasure of killing stuff i feed my family with what i can and im proud of it

HAHA Pam Anderson...Thats just funny

to VOLVOM, i agree theat they're all retarded, but if your going to inslut somone, i would try to do it tithout messing up something so simple as their vs. they're

their thought process is very scary, unfortunately alot of people pay attention to what they say and they are able to hurt the sportsman by bending as many ears as possible.

these poeple need to get a real life. they need to get put two miles away from there house and see if they can get back.

Talk about uninformed. It's only thanks to hunters that there are animals and ecosystems left. These people just can't admit that humans are predators. Also, Smith, whoever you are: we justify it to make morons like you SHUT UP!

pam anderson is an idiot

I think all these toe heads have wore make-up at 1 time.(alot really). make-up is made with varios parts of horse, cow, and other animals...think of how many poor animals have died to cover up all those imperfections..just a thought!

Vegetarian: Indian word for bad hunter
Vegan: Aztec word for pansy
PETA: People eating tasty animals

To fisherus: I highly agree with your statement regarding cruelty of man vs. cruelty of nature. People like PETA killed off the predators trying to "protect" their precious little bunnies and deer, and now humans have to take up the slack and kill them, or else they will overpopulate, devour all the food in their area, and the entire ecosystem will be destroyed, with the animals dying of slow starvation. Either starvation or disease-overpopulation makes diseases run wild. Besides, putting a bullet through an animal's head is so much faster than a predator running it down, tearing its throat out, and eating it while the prey is still alive and feeling it. Also, hunters do go after animals that can kill them-read Peter Hathaway Capstick with Death in the Dark Continent, Death in a Lonely Land, Death in the Long Grass, or Death in the Silent Places, if you want to hear what animals can do to people. Plus, they're really funny, great books, and completely true.

Just goes to show you that "Hollywood" people will say anything that they think people want to hear. Sorry to read that about Clint though. As for Miss Anderson I wonder if that statment holds true for her father too, seeing as how her father is/was(has he passed?) "a big hunter"(her words in interview)and had taken her hunting several times until she left to go strip for Playboy, which is where I think I read that quote.

In response to what smith said 43 posts up, dogs and cats are not wild animals, as are deer and their cousins, bear, different birds, and fish are, so, yes they deserve a second chance. As soon as a 10-point buck learns to come to heel and fetch, I will stop hunting them. Until then, I will continue doing what many people around the world enjoy everyday. And who says birds can think? Birds might be able to think...but not with intelligence.

Lets put them all in tree stands and let them feel the rush of whats been passed down since we human learned to eat! Then they will know hunting is in there DNA also.

I had to stop reading after the 6th one. I cannot believe some of these comments. It just goes to show you that some people will talk about things they know nothing about or have never done (hunting), and try to sound philisophical, like they have figured out the true meaning to everything. All they are doing is making everyone else in the room that much dumber for having to have had to listen to what they said. It is a shame that many people actually believe in what these "enlightened" people are saying.

Can't we all just get along? We should talk this out over a beer and a steak!

i wonder what pam anderson would say to a women hunter( and by the way, women who hunt are 1000% more attractive then women pumped with silcone and crawling with std's)

41magtoter, whoever he is, is right. Actual conservation of animals, really keeping wild game around, is upheld by hunters. Ducks Unlimited is one of the largest conservation groups in U.S.A. and every single member is a hunter. The big reason these people dislike hunters so much is because a few people with bad habits give the rest a bad name. You hear about "hunters" who hunt from airplanes or helicopters? That IS murder, not sport. Or, there was this video I saw where a circus lion had gotten too old to perform, and a rich guy paid to have it turned loose in this big enclosure, and he would go shoot it. The best part is when the lion jumped on the guy and started chewing on him-serves him right.

By the look of the bruises on Pamela Andersons arm, I would say that she has more to fear from her men than their equipment not working. Maybe she should try hunting herself, instead of being a piece of meat for her city boys.

Nothing wrong with her equipment. Too bad most of it was put there by a surgeon and Maybelline

Haha dummmbbb!!

When you think you have heard it all, out pops more of the same old anti-hunting diatribe that they have been spouting for years. If these celebrities would actually turn their wealth and power toward helping HUMANS, the world would be a much happier place. Apparently Ms. Pamela had something wrong with her original "equipment" judging from the Botox lips, silicone enhanced cleavage, and liposuctioned stomach.

I think Jesse Ventura ought to lighten up a bit. He's still working on his macho image. He must be worried we'll think he's mellowed out with age.

He doesn't seem to be opposed to hunting per se if it's carried out properly, like taking on a 500 pound wild boar in the middle of a pack of hounds with nothing but his bare hands and a knife. Talk is cheap. Have a go at it, Jesse!