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Ashley Judd

Actress Ashley Judd says an aerial wolf hunting program backed by Alaska Governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is “incredibly savage … it’s not right, it’s not appropriate, it makes no sense on any level.”

Aerial hunting is where hunters in planes and helicopters chase wolves until they are exhausted then shoot them in cold blood.  Hunting animals in a humane manner for food is acceptable; needlessly torturing them is not.

Judd recently appeared in a video for Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, which opposes the aerial hunting program.  Judd says that Palin is “championing the slaughter of wildlife…  When Sarah Palin came on the national scene last summer, few knew that she promotes the brutal aerial killing of wolves,” Judd says in the video.  “It is time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery.”

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