Dan Mooney
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There are many valid reasons to kill animals, but killing for pleasure is not one of them. That's my major objection to sport hunting - it's done just for the pleasure of the shooter - the enjoyment the hunter gets in seeing the animal killed.
Sure, sport hunters tell you they eat what they kill, but that's the most expensive meat around when you factor the cost of the weapon, ammunition, clothes, hunting license, travel, etc. If all they were looking for was food they could get it a lot cheaper at the grocery store.
In some parts of the country we have too many deer because we killed off the predators. Personally, I'd prefer that we hired hunters to thin the herd, or use poison to reduce their numbers. But allowing sport hunting is cheaper for the local government.
Allowing people to kill for pleasure diminishes us as a people.
Mike
I'm sure you're aware that you can buy organic meat that was raised without any additives, if that's your primary concern.I like a lot of folks would rather eat my meat from fresh kill, than worrie what has been put in it from the big mega farmers.If it cost more than IMO it's well worth it.These big mega farmers have all ready run off most of the small family farmers. So bless Willie, Dave,John, and Neal, for doing some thing to help our small family farms.(farm aid) I know you were talking about hunting, but wheather hunting fresh game, or raising fresh game is the same to me.
And by the way i have eaten some of them bean burgers and i woun't do it again.
Steve
Frank - I don't know why else people would hunt, unless they enjoyed the hunt and the kill. If they just wanted to commune with nature they could go out and look at animals, or even camp without any animals.Mike, your statement: "That's my major objection to sport hunting - it's done just for the pleasure of the shooter - the enjoyment the hunter gets in seeing the animal killed."..... is one that can be hotly disputed by many hunters.
It would take many words that could stray into areas prohibited here to argue your view.
Suffice it to say, I believe you are drastically mistaken.
FWIW, hunters, the first conservationists (farmers the second) have contributed money and knowledge that built the population of whitetail deer to 500 times what it was when Columbus landed. The same is true of many, if not all, other game species. Some species almost extinct on other continents are now thriving in the U.S.
I won't even get into "soy" meat. Yech.