Are you okay with hunting?

Question

Is it right or should we not be allowed to hunt? What are your feelings?

Answer 1

yes it's ok.. I mean we eat meat... the animal is killed anyway so why not by the hand of the individual rather the company

besides.. you get a deer and you'll have free meat all winter.

it saves a lot of money and feeds you and family

Besides.. hunting is actually a form of conservation.

animal populations have increased sense organized hunting has been inacted.

it controls populations and kills off the weak and provides a more stable biodiversity

I always use to feel bad about it but then I came to this realization...... a lot of animals are killed by cars or other accidents or even other predators.. so why not us and we are able to feed are families


are we so far distant from the days when hunting was a necessity for providing food for family that today we cannot do it and be fair .. no

hunting is not wrong when acted upon appropriatly and with a mature respect to nature and the causality of what ones effect/impact may have on wildlife..

with a mature mind... hunting is a good thing.. it is a course of nature




ps... I'm drunk.. and dammit. .I'm not going to read this over or spell check it.. but I hope I got a point across

Answer 2

I use to think it was wrong. But since I have lived in areas that people use the hunting to supplement their food supply. Some people in these area would go hungry without being able to hunt. City people are so removed from country life any more they can not understand that their are few things for a young person to do in the country. My husband hunted when he was young and growing up in WY. Does this make him bad! He ate what he caught. Wild meat is good. Probably better for us then the steroids shot into our domestic animals








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Answer 3

I am ok with hunting if it is done in a humane way, and the purpose of hunting is for food.

I am totally against hunting if it is for sport. I can't imagine why a human being would want to kill another living thing just because of the challenge........and then to take that animal and have it stuffed and put on their walls as a trophy is the worst possible taste.

If I walked into someone's home and they had trophy kills hanging on their walls, I would never return there again and I would certainly never be their friend.

Hunting for food is ok as long as it's done in a humane way. Killing an animal if you are defending yourself or someone else is ok too. Killing an animal for sport is vile.

Answer 4

I am not in favor of hunting down and killing defenseless animals such as deers and wild pigs. Up until about a hundred years ago, I could see the need for hunting wild game so families could put food on the table. However, times have changed with the advent of commercialized farms and mega-supermarkets. Now, fresh meat is as close as the corner grocery store. I definitely don't believe in hunting as a sport and wish that it would be against the law.

Cheers!

Answer 5

Deer season opened here last Saturday, you bet it is OK to hunt. Not only is it OK to hunt, in mane cases, it is absolutely necessary to hunt, or harvest excess animals. Mkae no bones about it. we humans have upset the applecart of mother nature's "natural balance", if there is such a thing. Many natural predator populations have been reduced because they began to prey on humans. Removing these predators affected the survival of many other animals... not just humans. So we humans should take up the slack and harvest the animals that would normally be harvested by the predators that we removed. All this stuff about animals here for food is correct, but it goes beyond that... we have a responsibility to hunt!!!

Answer 6

Clearly it's not an original thought, but I'm of the 'kill for food not sport' school of thought. The idea of people cutting tusks off elephants or fins off sharks and just leaving them to die is revolting. That said, we're omnivorous and it's perfectly natural for us to hunt for food. I haven't been hunting extactly, unless you count fishing. Same thing, but fish are more alien to us than furry critters and you use a hook instead of a gun. I always eat what I catch, or share it with friends/family. Even the less appetising stuff can be used as bait next time you go fishing/hunting or you can use it on your garden. Waste not, want not and all that.

Answer 7

When it comes to hunting there are two kinds of hunting: for sport and for a living.
For sport is just the merciless hunting of animals to kill them where hunting for a living means you kill the animal skin it and use it not just hang it on your wall and say, "Hey look, I shot this..."
You can hunt for sport and you can hunt for food but in the long run hunting for a living is better than for sport. It's better on the environment and ecosystem.

Answer 8

I beleive hunting should only be done for food, not for sport. And maybe to keep population down where needed. But the reason we have to keep the deer population down in most of the US is due to human settlement. Before Europeans came here, the deer had an infinite habitat to roam around in. Now, most of that land has been taken away and sadly we now have to kill many of them to keep the population to a level that is satisfied by what it has to live in. If Europeans hadn't come here, hunting to keep population down wouldn't be necessary.

Hunting for sport and trophy is very bad and I totally disagree with that. 50 to 100 years ago white people from Europe and US went to Africa just so they can have larger animals to kill and bring back their tasks or fur or head for trophy. Another great example is when the settlers came to the US and virtually wiped out the buffalo population just for fun. They just shot them and left them laying there to rot.

Answer 9

Well, personally I am okay with hunting. I don't hunt myself but I know who do hunt and enjoy it. I personally feel also though that some animals shouldn't be hunted. These are the more exotic animals such as I don't know, elephants etc...
Also aside, is the feeling that if you want to go after dangerous animals with a bow and arrow, its your funeral if something happens.

Answer 10

I don't like the idea and would never do it. HOWEVER, in season hunting is imperative to the equilibruim of an ecosystem..

Allow me to paint a scenario:

If people did not hunt deer at all, the deer population would flourish! As a result, the wolf population would flourish.

The massive deer population will eventually consume all its resourses, starve and die. In contrast, the wolf population, who was dependant on the deer population for food (which has rapidly declined) would also starve.