I believe this article clearly demonstrates why this is a political battle we are engaged in to keep and breed reptiles.

There are certain folks in the environmental movement that find animal ownership, wearing fur, eating meat, hunting, etc, reprehensiblee and I believe they are using this issue to press for legislation like HR669 to further their cause. This is the same way they have used the endangered species act as a weapon against the farming, building, and the fishing industries.

There is a clear dichotomy where the very same people are so concerned that man is wiping out so many other species, ie; the cloud leopard, giant turtles, whales, wolves, polar bears and mud-skippers, etc, etc, etc. on the one hand, but they throw their hands up and shout "The sky is falling" when a few dozen Burms are wild in the Florida Everglades?

Would it be so hard to send a bunch of people into the evrglades to capture or kill these burmese pythons? You have many people making a living doing business in the everglades - no? Instead of wasting millions and millions of taxpayers dollars sitting around Washington discussing the matter, all it would require would be to put a $500 or $1000 bounty on each non-native Burmese python caught in the everglades. Problem solved. Instead, certain people want to make it sound like our children arent safe and the killer Burms are taking over Florida to futher their radical adgenda.

Amazing.

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