what is your opinion on hunting wild life?

Answer 1

There are those who are opposed to hunting wildlife. If I didn’t grow up in a quasi subsistence lifestyle, I might have felt different. It is easy to see how hunting can be cruel.

For instance, if you walk into a restaurant and shoot a person at the salad bar, it is murder. If you walk into a hay field and shoot a deer, it is dinner. I have seen deer with arrowheads lodged inside and animals with injuries because of bad shots. That is the dark side of hunting, the animal suffering that is thought of as a price the animal must pay.

So why hunt?

Small game animals have a sufficient number of predators to keep their numbers in check. Even if there wasn’t, an overpopulation of squirrels and rabbits might be an annoyance, but not a real threat to humans and their health. The habitat can usually support many more animals than current populations.

As animals get bigger, the number of predators get fewer. Not many things that I have seen bother raccoons or geese. Some animals will attack and kill these larger animals, but small animals tend to be an easier kill for a predator. While overpopulation of these animals can cause a concern for humans. Again, the habitat can usually support many more animals than current populations.

As you move to larger animals like deer, coyotes, and similar animals, there are few if any natural predators still around. If the population is let go, the animals become a threat to humans either through predatory instincts or just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time (ie. Car deer accidents). As the animals are large, they require greater amounts of food. A large deer population can be devastating to a farmer’s crop, not to mention spread disease to livestock intended for human consumption (like bovine tuberculosis).

Even small animals can be devastating to crops. The dove population in Argentina is so large that a flock can eat thousands of tons of grain in a day. Fields can be wiped out in under a day by the larger flocks.

Hunting helps restore the balance that humans have destroyed. As predators are gone, humans have become the predators. Without the predators, animals like deer will consume all the food available in their habitat and either starve to death or die of diseases like CWD, bovine tuberculosis, or others (neither sounds like a good way to die to me)

So what good is hunting?

1.Keeps populations of certain game under control. In some states, if hunting were eliminated for a year or two, the current deer populations would be well beyond the carrying capacity of the land. Granted, many animals are not in the same predicament as the deer, but are getting to be.

2.It provides an activity that allows families to spend time together and pass down traditions. Yes, there are other things families can do, but hunting happens to be an activity built on tradition.

3.It provides a heck of a lot of money into economies that otherwise wouldn’t have tourism. I hunt deer in Tomah, WI. Any other time of the year, there is nothing going on in the town. However, when the gun deer season comes around, all of the hotels are full, the restaurants have waiting lists, the gas pumps are flowing, and local stores are selling things that the hunters need or forgot.

4.Provides an overall boost to the economy. Hunting is expensive (very expensive if you think about it). Gun deer hunting requires a rifle, which a cheap one will run $500. The rifle needs a scope which is another $250. The scope needs rings which is $30. A box of ammo will set a hunter back $20. The hunter needs to sight in their rifle every year at $15 a visit. Boots wear out at $100 a pair. A GPS is needed after getting lost in the woods last year for about $150. The kids stole my compass, making me part with another $10. I can’t see over the brush anymore, so I need a deer stand at $160. This goes on and on for any hunter (at least deer hunters…). This money tends to stay local, but it is spend all the same.

5.Despite its cruelty on the surface, hunting provides a humane way of getting food that hasn’t been processed, drugged, diseased, or force fed God only knows what. I always argue that a corporate farm that makes a cow stand on cement in a little cube with 6 other cows, covered in its own excrement, fed hormone and antibiotic laced grains is cruel. The deer I shoot have a chance to evade me and I spend a lot of money and time to make sure my bullet hits where I want and I can make a clean kill. Personally, I think hunting a free animal is much more humane than eating an animal bred to die.

6.Hunting is a state of mind. At the end of the day, hunting is about raw beauty to most people. There is nothing more beautiful than watching a chickadee eat seeds out of a pinecone and lichen on a branch at 3 feet away. Watching two squirrels chase and play with each other is quite uplifting. The beauty of a deer browsing in the woods is quite awesome. To me, this is hunting, not the steak on my plate.

Take my opinion for what it is. Some people will agree, some will not. I am all for it.

Answer 2

Hunted meat is a approaches fit then farmed meat. i'm a huge animal lover, yet whilst the looking is finished humanely, i've got self assurance that throughout the time of the tip looking some animals ensures that the ordinary inhabitants survives. Vegans have this myth that if there became no looking each and all the animals may be happy. this is misguided! The animals may be ravenous and diseased and somewhat some extra animals might go through.

Answer 3

I do not oppose hunting wild life, as long as it is the season for hunting, and if you are out there to get your food, clothing, etc. (such as Ted Nugent does). Richard Childress and the late Dale Earnhardt used to hunt and fish together, you can see some of Richard's catches in his museum in Welcome, N.C. However, I do oppose those who use the wrong hunting gear and those who just kill for the thrill. One person who definitely should NOT be allowed to hunt is Dick Cheney, yes, our V.P.(what a joke).

Answer 4

As a wildlife biologist i know first hand the importance of hunting. There is a defined number of animals that a habitat can sustain, this is known as the carrying capacity. This number is derived from the amout of vegetation in an area, the amount of space available, and other factors such as territoriality of the animal. Once this number is exceeded then there are negative consequences, such as increases in the number of vehicle accidents, starvation of the species in overabundance or impacts upon other species as well, increases in other negative species, etc. By allowing hunting in a system then there are ways to keep the populations of certain animals under control. This is most easily seen with white-tailed deer here in Ohio. There are too many deer in many areas of Ohio, many of these areas are near large populations of people. This has been a great problem as many people are being killed by the increase in the number of deer-vehicle accident. In many of these urban areas hunting has been outlawed or discouraged and the deer are increasing exponentially. They are depleating the resources that they have, and are moving into more urban settings in search of food, this has many negative implications for the deer as well as the occupants of these areas.
However you feel about hunting it is a necessary part of wildlife management. Also another factor is the amount of money that hunting generates. Our Department of Natural Resources, that manages our state parks, forests, fisheries, etc. are run directly from money generated from hunters and fishermen. Through the purchases or licenses and from a special tax on hunting and fishing equipment known as the excise tax. For example the Federal Migratory Bird Stamp (duck stamp) that waterfowl hunters are required to purchase, has itself paid for over a million acres of Waterfowl Refuges in the United States.
You have to remember that hunters love the environment and the animals the harvest. They put their own time and money into the environment and pay for the preservation of the environment.

Answer 5

i feel hunting wild game is better than buying a piece of drugged up meat from a store. if i could, i would live on wild game year round.

Answer 6

If you eat what you kill, and respect your envirement, then it s a good thing.
As far as a sport I do not consider it a sport, I hunt to feed my family, but I do enjoy the stalk and usely try to shoot a bigger buck or bull.

Answer 7

I have always hunted wildlife. Living the
dull life that is prescribed by social
convention is not for me.

Answer 8

It is ok to hunt just as long as you follow the rules and dont kill more than your supposed to.

Answer 9

Waaaaay better than shooting domesticated pets. Taste better than the neighbor's cat too.

Answer 10

Food is Food...

In order to obtain edible meat, something in the animal kingdon has to be put to rest...