Animal Population Control

Animals will increase until they run out of food and disease and starvation thins them out if there are no predators to keep their numbers in check.

In New Jersey a small wilderness park has too many deer and so they finally hired hunters to thin the herds. The park is near expensive homes so introducing wolves is not an option. Of course many of the comments are condemning the thinning because shooting animals is bad and deer are cute. Of course no one who is writing to oppose the culling has offered any alternative to prevent the deer population from destroying the park habitat, nor would they be happy to see the deer starve to death.

Many of the commentators would most likely be the same who would be paralyzed if their Starbucks couldn't sell them their latte or their grocery store ran out of food.