Am I the only person who is against deer hunting?!?

Question

No matter where I go online or in real life, I seem to be the only person who thinks hunting deer and other animals is wrong. Just because it's more humane than the factories doesn't make it right. I'm not asking if I should change my mind, I just want to know why I am so alone in this. Even other vegetarians don't agree with me. Maybe I'm having some terrible nightmare or something, where I'm the only person who thinks it is just as wrong for a human to kill a wild animal as it is to kill another human being.

Answer 1

Anti-hunters fail to see the ecoligical benefits of hunting. If you don't wish to harm an animal that's fine, but do not deny hunting's advantages. Predation is natural and necessary for the game animals that we hunt. Legalized, regulated hunting in the U.S. has never caused an animal to go extinct, nor have hunters ever condoned the cruelty of the animals we hunt. Hunters are being taught to only make quick, clean, and ethical kills so as to cause the animal a minimal amount of suffering.

We don't need the meat to survive, but hunting is required to keep the ecosystem in balance. Carrying capacity is the population level that can be supported by a specific habitat. If you let the population exceed the carrying capacity, there will no longer be enough food, water, and habitat available to support it. This will endanger the animals and possibly humans as well. The population MUST be regulated. If you still think hunting is cruel, then you just can't handle how life works.

If you want an example of what happens when you eliminate all of the predators for a specific animal, look at what happened to the deer on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay in the early 1900s. The deer on the island were considered a tourist attraction and all of the deer's natural predators were taken off of the island and hunting was illegal. The deer population began to rise and it needed to be regulated. It was seen as cruel to release wolves onto the island and legalize hunting so both ideas were voted against. Eventually the deer ate up all of the islands vegetation and tore up the land. The deer became sickly and eventually all died out. The island became unhabitable because of the damage that the deer caused to the environment.

Hunting is necessary and it is regulated so that we only hunt game that are overpopulating. The two leading factors that are harming the animals' populations are urbanization and the introduction of unnative species to an environment. Those should be looked at and not hunting.

Hunters are part of many conservation organizations and contribute to the Department of Fish and Game with every purchase they make on hunting and fishing licenses and equipment. Hunters do their part for the environment and wildlife. What do anti-hunters do?

Answer 2

I am against it 100%..unless the people live in the bush or, ar very poor & can't afford to buy meat! My brother-in-law goes deer hunting every year...Grrrr! They ar a member of the elite! The one thing that really sticks in my craw is, deer ar fed at a reg time everyday. Then during deer season the deer come to the feeding location & ar killed! This so wrong!!

Answer 3

I think it's okay to be against deer hunting, or hunting in general, because you don't want to hurt animals. I hope you're a vegan and don't wear leather, because that is worse, in my opinion.

Sometimes being on this earth can be like being in a nightmare, when you realize the things that people do, not only to animals, but to each other, and aren't prevented from doing. I wouldn't personally kill an animal unless I--or my family, or other community members--needed the food, but I realize that I could do it. It took some time to realize that I could kill if needed--animals to eat, or humans in self defense--in spite of how repulsed I am by it. Fortunately, I haven't had to do either yet, and I live my life in such a way so as to significantly reduce the chance of having to. But this is an uncertain world, and if I needed to, I guess I would.

I'd rather eat game meat than farmed, and I eat only wild fish and (admittedly, farmed) chicken. So I guess I really do kill, indirectly. It took quite some time to deal with this, also. I became unhealthy as a vegetarian, and an Indian vaidya to whom I went for a consultation told me my constitution was wrong for vegetarianism. While I think I am meant to be kind and live in harmony with Earth's creatures, I think I was also meant to be healthy.

Don't know if that helps. It's a difficult moral decision, and one that each of us must make as individuals.

Answer 4

If it weren't for the American hunter there would be NO animals. Who do you think pays the bills. It's not you and your fellow tree hugger. It's the American hunter, with the license and fees. That what pays for wild life management. Because of the American hunter there is more deer than before the white man came to America. They keep the deer from overpopulating and destroying the environment. So the next time you see a hunter you should thank him for saving the wild life for you. As it seems that you and your tree hugger Buddy's don't do anything but cry.

Answer 5

No, you aren't the only one who is against hunting deer, or anything else, for that matter. I know a few people who are against it, and the state I live in is very pro-deer hunting. I don't hunt deer, myself, but I have nothing against it. I"ve done it, but it's just not my thing.

Answer 6

If you are seriously against killing any living animal for the betterment of man...Turn off your computer and throw it away (the power company killed some living creature to provide the electricity it runs on). Don't ever drive your vehicle again... fossil fuels are partly made up of dead plants and animals. Please don't forget to burn all of your clothes also as a fuzzy little bunny was mangled in the header of the cotton harvester used to get the product from the field to the seamstress to make them!
Point being: you ARE a carnivore that's how you were born and that's how you will go out. Everything you use to live is or was provided by plants and animals by the true ruler...Mother Nature.

Answer 7

I think you're going to the wrong place to be asking this question. You can believe in anything you want, but typically people on a hunting forum believe it's ok to hunt. While I may not agree with you, no worries, I know plenty of people who do.

Answer 8

searching is nice with me as long as you eat what you kill. in simple terms killing for relaxing is ill. there replaced right into a super scene defined in Africa around the turn of the final century, some hunters have been accrued around mounds of animals they had slaughtered for relaxing, and have been in simple terms going to pores and skin for trophies, and that they have got been bitching approximately how there have been so few animals to kill anymore. all of them slot in to the ecological stability of this planet, the gadget that retains us people alive. it would desire to no longer be actual obvious, actual obvious in the beginning up, and its a redundant gadget so it has geared up in flexibility, yet there are limits previous which it is going to be unable to be pushed with out collapsing and taking us down with it.

Answer 9

I would like to think that you don't wear leather or wool. But then again, I don't care if you are a hypocrite. I have two teeth that tell me that I was born to rip into rare cowflesh. I love rare steak. So rare that the calf is still screaming.

Answer 10

Nope, you're all alone in this stupidity, The tree huggers have started to realise that without hunting, the animal population would grow to the extent they would run out of food and starve to death, so yes, you are completely alone in this stupidity you have against hunting.