Tell Troy Link at Jack Link’s Protein Snacks to Stop the Carnage!

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Troy Link needs to stop enabling these insane target shooting contests on live birds. Troy Link and his compadres direct the loading of thousands of pigeons into boxes and then launch them a few feet into the air so wealthy club members can blast them with shotguns. The animals, shipped into Florida, are there just to be massacred, even though the shooters could very easily use sporting clays or skeet for competitive shoots instead.

Troy is the owner of Quail Creek Sporting Ranch in Okeechobee, Fla., and he's the one who put this open-air slaughter into motion. There may be as many as 15,000 pigeons shipped in for this purpose, stuffed into special launch boxes, and tossed in the air to meet grave injury and abandonment or certain death.

Some birds are blown to bits after their launch from the boxes. Others suffer grievous injuries and meet their end when boys and girls gather them up and wring their necks. Some escape the premises and die more slowly, their bodies perforated with toxic lead shot, which poisons other animals—including bald eagles—who finish them off. See the undercover video here.

It's insane. It's wasteful. It's bloodthirsty. It's so gratuitous given the availability of alternatives. It's malicious killing by millionaires and billionaires. Shouldn't they know better?

It must end.

Troy Link's company depends on public goodwill to sell his line of meat products, and we must let him know that he can't use his profits to fund such hideous exercises in savagery. The wealthy scion of Jack Link's founder should hear from people of conscience. Let's tell him cruelty doesn't fly.

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