This isn't excatly the truth. Wildlife thinning has been going on for years, whether or not one disagrees with the practice. The left characterizes Palin as someone who decides to go kill animals on a lark.
You have to parse the words through the filter of someone pandering to the logical conclusion crowd of “meat is murder”, there is no reason to hunt for food, that is what grocery stores are for. But they really want to criminalize livestock production and consumption. Pay attention to this stuff because while they will not come out publicly and say this, that is their end game and they will use the courts and legislation and public policy to effect this. We’re seeing the groundwork being laid down further via “climate change” propaganda, water pollution mandates, etc. Of course it *sounds* crazy, but so did a bunch of things not so long ago, that are now shoved down the craw of a seemingly clueless public.
It is issues such as this that in aggregate suggest to many commentators that the system is too far gone for any meaningful reform and that a “hard reset” is indicated. There is simply far too much geographic and demographic diversity to find a common ground, and the notion that elites dictate how everyone should live will mercifully pass. Not good job prospects for the control-freak bureaucrats but perhaps they will finally find honest and honorable employment.