Is hunting more humane than supermarkets?

Question

Since the beginning of his existence, man has been a hunter, a predator. He has hunted and eaten meat to insure his survival. To deny this is to deny your past, your religion, even your existence.

Since we have now established that about every human being on this planet consumes meat, we in America are left with two choices, buy your meat from a supermarket, or harvest it yourself.

We will, for now, discuss the fact that in many areas of the world, there is no "supermarket." We know the choice these people make; their lives, or the lives of meat, a good hunter enters the woods and kills a deer with a clean, merciful shot. The deer dies in his own environment, quick and unexpected.

To buy your meat in a store seems so innocent, but have you ever seen or thought how it comes to be wrapped up so neatly in cellophane?

First, cattle live their entire lives penned up in cramped quarters, never allowed to roam freely, bred for one purpose when their time has come.

The techniques that I have personally seen is to take cattle, line them up side by side with their heads and necks protruding over a low fence, and walk from one end to the other, slitting their throats with either machete or power saw. Unable to run or move, they are left there until they bleed to death, standing up.

Would you rather die while living happily or die while leading a miserable life? You tell me which is more "humane."

Does a "growing percentage of the public" have any pity or respect for any of the animals which are butchered and then sold in the store?

Or is just so conveniently "clean" that a double standard is allowed?

Answer 1

I'm just gonna say yeah...........

Answer 2

Yes you do have a point , and kudos for you , but the unfortunate reality we in our society not including the third world population that gathers for them selves , we first have government laws against our own hunting , second we for one don't have a clue what to do with the carcass if we are to kill an animal for meat , third we don't have the time and inclination to do this dirty dead , fourth imagine the commotion of traffic if we all decide to go into the wild to hunt , not to mention how quick we would devastate the wild animals ( remember all this cows are grown for business and to supply food for us ) they are not produced for the sake to be sadistic , they unfortunately are our source of food , but if you want change may be a compromise , fight to change the form they are mutilated to a more humane way , I don't know, create one and follow it up with our government representatives ... Good luck.

Answer 3

yea allot more people have been hunting for ever since 1950s people have had to work for their food. to experience the frustration of looking for food and worrying about putting nothing on the table hunters harvest the land (that's their motto). people can now buy a part of an animal that the put in warehouses and feed and exercise without leaving the warehouse they put hormones to make animals bigger and then slaughter them.

Answer 4

The problem is, some people hunt for the sport of it and not for the meat, or any other part of the animal. What do you do with those deerskins anyway?