How do you guys feel about... hunting?

Question

This is actually an honest question. Realizing that without hunting, the populations of deer and certain other wildlife would be out of control, how do you feel about it?
Without hunting there would be starvation, widespread disease, and a lot more car accidents-- which are bad for people and deer obviously.

If you guys are against eating meet, how would we control the population. How do you guys feel about hunting?

Answer 1

I feel great about hunting, as long as the hunters are following regulations responsibly.

Stable animal populations can generally withstand a limited harvest of animals that might otherwise go to waste due to the consequences of overpopulation.

Wild game is usually healthier for you than commercially available meat, and hunting is a very enjoyable activity as well.



I find it ironic that so many vegetarians claim that people who eat meat have "lost touch with where food comes from", yet their answers to this question prove that most of them know absolutely nothing about hunting, other than the fallacies that have been fed to them by PETA and other vegetarian propaganda.

Answer 2

I hunt and eat what I kill. The price of my tags that I have to buy goes to the DNR to help secure wetlands, game observation, and overall wildlife management. Do some research on a state DNR website, they will probably have some sort of pie chart as to where the money from licensing goes.



Most hunters are unsuccessful 85% of the time, so there is no guarantee you're going to fill your freezer anyway. Like I tell my boys, I've hunted for 30 years and I see something new and exciting every time I go into the woods, regardless of seeing deer or not. Nothing scares the living crap out of you like a screech owl screeching directly above you in the tree at dusk.

Answer 3

I'm a vegetarian.. but I fully support hunting as a means of survival.



I grew up in a family where hunting and fishing were the most economical ways of getting protein. Even that meat was considered a luxury. Beans often substituted meat at the dinner table. My great grandparents lived in the country and ate what was local to the area. I can remember eating dumplings with either squirrel or rabbit hunted by my great grandfather when I was 4. They used the hides and and virtually every organ of the animals they killed. Many people still rely on hunting and fishing.



Suburban Americans can be so damn ignorant about how other people in different parts of the world live. Not every community grocery store has soy cheese or TVP in the produce section.



On the other hand.. hunting for sport is disgusting to me. It's no better than murder. Especially when the animals are killed only to be mounted on the damn wall.

Answer 4

I approve of searching. it rather is lots extra humane than what cows constantly pass through. i could lots quite devour meat from an animal that lived extremely some its life, over a cow that became brutally slaughtered at a production unit farm. Plus, maximum wild animal meat tastes solid, like venison burgers. inspite of the incontrovertible fact that, i do no longer consider searching predators. by way of fact we are purely going to in all hazard finally end up employing the fur extremely some the time, i do no longer think of it rather is mandatory. maximum predators take care of their very own numbers after a whilst through starvation and killing one yet another over meals. inspite of the incontrovertible fact that i think of that if a predators inhabitants became that extreme that it exceeded off constantly, i could be o.k. to kill some unwell or susceptible animals to stability issues back out.

Answer 5

A man, brought before the court for poaching a condor, was asked if he had any words to share before the judge passed his sentence. "I do, your Honor. Thank you. I would just like to say that my family and I have been homeless for over a year now, and we eat whatever we can find. I did not know that I was killing an endangered species, as I was more concerned with providing for my wife and children. I will accept whatever punishment the court orders, but I would, in the interest of fairness, humbly ask for mercy."

The judge, clearly moved by the man's closing words, uttered this proclamation. "Given your circumstances, it is clear to me that you do not present an ongoing threat to our wildlife, so I will impose a 1 year suspended sentence." The man thanked the court, and as he was leaving, the judge asked, "just curious, what does a California condor taste like?"

To which the man replied, "kind of a cross between a spotted owl and a bald eagle."

Answer 6

If a person was starving or honestly couldn't be healthy when not eating animals, I wouldn't stop em or even be rude to them about hunting. Most people today hunt for sport, though. Some use all the animal that they kill, but most don't. People don't need meat. There are better foods for the things that meat has as far as nutrition goes. We don't even need to be involved with them for the most part. Its not just about one individual, its about everybody as a whole. If people would hurry up and realize that killing is wrong; taking lives is wrong, then we could all move on and live off plant food which is the logical way.



Its not left to humans to determine overpopulation or underpopulation. Where we go, we destroy. We destroy things with everything we do. When we build, we destroy. When we eat, drive, work etc. we are always destroying what is there naturally. That is what we have done for thousands of years.



Now, if we would just think and stop being so afraid of what is a little different, we could live in much better harmony with the world.





To answer your question, if a person can live without hunting, they should live without hunting.

Answer 7

Honestly, if we didn't take over and develop all their land in the first place, we wouldn't have an overpopulation problem. I know especially around where I live, they are developing all the natural areas SO fast, that the creatures who naturally lived there haven't had a chance to adjust. Technically this is our fault, and now we use it as an excuse to go out and kill things. We took your land, now it's our land, and now we're going to kill you because you're still on it. Kind of reminds me of what we did to the Native Americans back in the day.



In addition to this, I used to live on the border of the game-lands right outside of my city and would literally go to sleep listening to the bellows of wounded, most likely shot deer that were just left to die. I cannot even count the times that I've seen shot deer, even a doe and her fawn (which is illegal) that had just been killed and left to rot. WHERE IS THE SENSE IN THAT?

Answer 8

I think that hunting is necessary in many parts of the world. Many people depend on it for survival. I also believe that it does help keep the population in check; however, it's really humanity's own fault that there is a need to keep certain populations in check. After all, we've been very successful in killing off natural predators like bears and wolves. If we allowed predators to exist while taking extra precautions to protect ourselves, we wouldn't need to hunt as much.



I have no inherent issue with hunting. Humans have been doing it for many millenia. However, I think it's disgusting when people do it for "sport" and then try and pass it off as "population control." If hunters just stopped hunting natural predators, they wouldn't need to hunt as much. It's really used as an excuse in order to kill.



Going vegan/vegetarian in relatively wealthy countries where meat consumption is high is beneficial for the planet and people. For example, in America, factory farms are a huge drain on our natural resources and health. In countries where people are very poor, it shouldn't be held against them if they hunt to survive. It all depends on context. Hunting needlessly is cruel, but hunting responsibly (i.e. using as much of the animal as possible, and hunting in order to survive) is not shameful in the least.

Answer 9

Being a person who does not buy meat from any supermarket, I am a person who advocates hunting, AS LONG AS THE ENTIRE ANIMAL IS USED FOR SOMETHING, And the animal is killed as painlessly as possible. Animals deserve more respect than most people do.



The organs can be made into a slurry for animal food, and the liver can be eaten like a steak.

The hide can make clothing.

The bones can be used for a multitude of things, such as carving. You can also powder them and use it as a base for certain fertilizers

The brain can be used to make a tanning slurry for the hides (not human skin tanning)

The meat can be frozen and eaten as time permits.

Antlers can be used to make tools

The sinew can be used to make bowstring

The hooves can be boiled and used as dog treats, or they can be boiled and made into deck soap

The fat can be boiled and mixed with certain ingredients to make body soap.

Answer 10

I don't like it.

I could never do it.



It is sometimes necessary.

Its a heckuva lot better than factory farming.



I do, think, however, that the animal should be treated with respect and killed as painlessly as possible. Its body should be put to good use, not wasted.

Hunting out of need for the animals (population control) and humans (food, clothing, etc) is understandable.

The in-rhythm-with-nature respect-for-all-beings way of life- like how people write of Native Americans or Inuit- always attracted me, so I can understand how people find hunting animals ok.



Hunting for sport or decoration is absolutely repellent to me. My cousin and neighbor shoot squirrels/rodents for the fun of it, and waste their bodies, and I think thats totally sick, and wrong on such a basic level I can't even find a way to explain it. How can you find amusement in the pain of another creature?



Deer Hunter: 'morally acceptable' is definitely subjective. Just saying.

Answer 11

Hunting is a way of life for many people, not just the United States. it is also managed by people who actually spend years and years studying the problems caused by and effects of many factors such as urbanization on wild life. Wildlife mangers determine how much wildlife a certain habitat can sustain and then determine if the population is enough, not enough or too much, When it is the latter, they allow controlled hunting until the correct balance is achieved. The income generated by hunters is used for the management of the wildlife and other programs deemed necessary to maintain a healthy herd. That's the "quota" for licenses and tags vary from year to year depending on the size of the population On some years, hunting is banned altogether is certain areas.

Very few vegetarian animal "rights" activists are even aware what goes on beyond what is stated i their favorite vegetarian propaganda site so it would not be surprising if their are inflexible (against) given that that's what they have been told.



The killing of natural predators is the result of 1) predatory animals such as wolves killing cattle and more importantly b) predatory animals going into human population centers because their natural prey, herbivores, stray into former habitat or feed on plants found there, These prey also naturally migrate to crop farm territory because of the abundance of what they think is their food. Conversion of wild animal habitat into crop farms is one of the biggest cause of wildlife habitat loss and wildlife depletion outside of urbanization.



It is quite stupid and arrogant for some people to refer to humans as if they are not and imply that they are not party to the cause, use of resources and urbanization, that wreak havoc on wildlife. Then turn around and condemn thsoe whop are actually doing something to correct the damage they themselves help create. If you do not approve of hunting, fine, no one is forcing you to like it or participate. But I don't see you giving up your modern day comforts and returning land to animals either.

Answer 12

Plants show no sign of physical pain though when we eat them. Animals make noises when they are hurt. I honestly don't like hunting. I thinking it's stupid, barbaric, and is only needed to control population. It's ridiculous to think of it as a sport





I was only saying that plants do not show signs of physical pain because someone said that we have to kill plants for food and they feel pain, which isn't proved.

Answer 13

If we didn't kill all of the natural predators, deer wouldn't have a population problem in the first place.

Answer 14

Mother Nature doesn't screw us over like that, so the whole "out of control deer population" argument is quite ridiculous.

Answer 15

I believe that it is wrong to unnecessarily kill an animal, hence I believe hunting is wrong provided that the hunter has the option to consume a healthy vegan diet, which is the case for just about everyone in a developed nation.



You claim that without hunting, there would be overpopulation. Please provide some evidence supporting this claim.



Suppose for the sake of argument that it is true that without hunting, there would be overpopulation. You claim that this justifies hunting. Let's apply your logic to human overpopulation. Suppose there is an overpopulation of humans (some would argue that there already is). Would killing humans for sport or for food then be justified because it would be a means of population control? If not, then it seems your argument about hunting falls apart.



Edit:

Okay, thanks, so hunting can take care of overpopulation problems. Now, would you like to address the other part (the main part) of my argument? That is, why do you think the fact that hunting is an effective method of population control makes it morally justified? Would the same apply to human overpopulation and the killing of humans?

Answer 16

my dad is a hunter, and its not like their rounding up baby deer and slaughtering them. they only take older bucks, that probably wont mate, and all the meat is either kept and eaten or donated to shelters. and yeah, all the population stuff too.

Answer 17

I never understood the argument against eating meat on a "killing something to eat is wrong" basis.



are plants not living, breathing reproducing comminucating beings.



does a cabbage have any less right to live than a cow?



which ever way up you look at it - for you to live - SOMETHING has to die because the only way that the human animal can survive is to ingest ORGANIC LIFE of some description or another.

Answer 18

It doesn't matter what vegans think about hunting. They won't stop anyone from doing it. If they want to condemn people for doing something that is morally acceptable, perfectly legal, and as natural as breathing air them let them. It just makes those vegans look ignorant.

Answer 19

Hunting is sick and wrong, particularly when it is done for fun. The whole reason why hunters even have to control the population of their game in the first place is because Humans wiped out the natural predators that did that job, such as Wolves. Animals that enter Human settlements are only taking back the land that the Human invaders stole from them.



Animals wouldn't need the help of a bunch of bloodthirsty, psychotic Apes in the first place if it wasn't for your destruction of the environment. Nature has always done just fine without the interference of all you African hooligans. If there's a creature that should be hunted to control its population, then it's Humans. There can never be too few of you evil Baboon-Chimps.



Edit: I'm not trying to be racist, I'm just using terms that are proper for describing the Human race in general.

Answer 20

saying 'population control' is the arrogant humans way of beleiving they actually are in control of nature, as usual

we dont control nature, we never have, never will



why not just admit to enjoying the thrill of the hunt and kill,

its honest and id at least respect that more than a sad pathetic attempt at arational excuse for why soemone wants to kill another living being



i do not agree with hunting, obviously ;-)

Answer 21

I do not eat meat but I do not push that on anyone else and I do not have any feelings towards the people who do. Just don't try to feed it to me or tell me your feelings on why I should eat it.

Answer 22

It's disgusting.