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COMMENTS:
This is one of few subjects I am open to debate on.
I would hardly call hunting a 'sport' a sport would imply that both sides were evenly matched and that both parties agreed to the practice.
I rifle against an unarmed animal seems a little one sided to have the tag 'sport'.
I am by no means a mealy mouthed vegetarian, but call it what it is, HUNTING, plain and simple.
I have no onjection to people hunting for food, but just for the 'fun' of it, seems a little barbaric.
I think that hunting purely for sport and wasting the carcass is wrong, but if you harvest your kills and put it to good use like using it for food, than I'm all for it.
Sometimes the herd has to be thinned.
Rifle hunting is bogus. Any shot over 100 yards is unfair IMO. I hunt with a bow and shotgun. The longest shot I have ever taken was in the range of 40 yards. WELL within the sensory range of even a blind whitetail. If anything, the animals are better equipped than the hunter. So in terms of fairness, maybe we should tie the deers' back legs together to make it fair for the hunters. They are far better equipped and have evolved millions of years to reach their current point of predator awareness and sensory mastery.
Prey species never "agree to the practice." Trust me, that's not how it works.
Absolutely beelz. There is a carrying capacity for any given piece of land. When populations exceed this limit, the old and young will die. Either humans can't choose not to hunt and these animals will die by car collisions, stray dog predation, starvation, or disease. Or, as I choose to, they will be killed quickly with one bullet or arrow and their remains will be used as feed and the hide donated to a guy who makes gloves. The rest of what we do not use, the head, legs, bones etc., is buried to fertilize the ground from which the deer feed over.
I have no problem with it.
by ABC on Thu Feb 10, 05 1:04pm
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I take part of that back. It's okay to hunt, if you're living in the pre-refrigeration era and your family's hungry. Otherwise, there are these things called grocery stores.
My bothers hunt and I understand and approve of it *if* the meat is used for food and the hunt is done legally.
Im sure a good psycho analyst would have a field day with so called hunters who hunt for sport.
Whatever weapon is used, its still one sided, until they evolve opposable thumbs and are able to shoot back.
It's also a means of curbing population so that the animals don't die of other less humane and quick causes. Not to mention curbing the ENORMOUS amount of property damage caused by many species.
I DO eat the meat. I am a human. Humans are predators. What's the problem here? I see hunting no differently than a cheetah running down a Thompson's gazelle. True hunters DO NOT waste the meat. Even if they don't eat it themselves, they give it to relatives or many, many sites are willing to take in donated meat to programs which distribute the meat to the less fortunate.
Im not arguing with you on the 'culling' and hunting for food argument, I am just making the point, that it is not, in my opinion, a sport.
Sport gives the impression that it is somehow noble to shoot a defenseless animal for pleasure.
Hope that clears it up.
GROSS. I don't shoot animals for pleasure. Never say that again please lol. And you're right, taking steroids to hit a ball over a wall is noble.
I hunt,, I enjoy it,, and yes I eat what I kill
Controlling the population is important, otherwise many animals would starve to death, eat an excessive amount of farmers crops, and run into your cars.
Nothing wrong with hunting, IMO, provided you consume and use what you eat. But just to have a trophy mounted on the wall, no.
As for grocery stores. That meat is so pumped up with hormones and anitbiotics it's amazing. You can even taste the difference, it's so bad. I'll take a nice venison backstrap over a store-bought rib eye anyday.
As long as you eat the animal I think it's fine. They probably die a less horrific death than most farmed animals.
good point thc.. most deer killed by bow don't even know they were shot until they drop dead from blood loss. A few that i shot actually continued eating then fell over and died without kicking their legs or anything. Looked very peaceful.
hahahahaha thanks?
You can borrow my wig.
I don't see anything wrong with hunting. We are way over run with deer here in Kentucky and I mean way over run. We have so many deer here that in some areas there isn't even a limit on doe's anymore. You can just drive around and watch them feeding in the fields here. There are so many deer here, you don't have to be out early in the morning or at dusk, you can see deer any time. There are places close by me that if I go out around dusk you just see massive amounts of deer. I was driving down a road me and my brother like to check out and watch deer one day and saw a bunch of doe's just hanging out in someones front yard feeding, then five or six in this field, three in another field, maybe eight in another field etc. . . The road is actually kinda famous with local deer hunters, but you can pretty much just pick a country road in central Kentucky, drive down it and see deer. Last season hunters here in Kentucky took 124,750 deer. 60,338 bucks and 64,412 doe's and they're still everywhere. Its a good thing we aren't having bad winters here, because they would probably be starving right now.
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