Boycott of Idaho Potatoes

This boycott doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

The Connecticut-based Friends of Animals group is calling for a boycott of Idaho potatoes to protest proposed hunting of wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

A district judge in Montana still has to weigh in on environmental groups efforts to stop the hunt as part of their push to have Federal Endangered Species Act protections restored to the big predators that now number over 1,600 Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

A hearing is scheduled for Monday where a final decision will be made.

The wolf hunts are supposed to start Tuesday in Idaho and on September 15th in Montana.

I don't know. Seems a stretch for Connecticut animal-lovers to get so charged about wolf hunts 2,000 miles away, especially since the Nutmeg State isn't known to have any significant populations of wolves running around. It would arguably make more sense to boycott tourism or wolf pelts than potatoes.

However, maybe the Friends of Animals group would cancel the boycott of potatoes if the wolves were simply captured and transported for release in Connecticut. Then potato-lovers could enjoy their russets without nettlesome distractions and animal-lovers could claim they saved the wolves. Everybody wins.