It is so cruel to hunt for animals so why the people do it anyway???

Question

Its so sad to see animals getting hurt and when people hunt for animals its just getting easier so that they can end up in the endangered animals list or the exstinct animals list.

Answer 1

When I was growing up, dad hunted to help put different types of meat on the table. I still like wild game, but don't eat it anymore. Some people in various parts of the country still hunt to put food on the table.

Other people kill animals because they look upon it as a sport. I don't feel this way. If you are hunting for food, that's one thing, but to kill for the heck of it is another.

Answer 2

I live in a very rural area and just about all the men and lots of women all hunt. We hunt and fish but it is not cruel. We hunt not only to feed our family's but so that the population of deer, fish, and other animals doesn't get too high for the environment to sustain. If the population gets too high then animals start to die of starvation, and diseases. Would you rater die a very quick and somewhat painless death or would you die very slowly and painfully? Most of the hunters I know will actually feel very bad if they don't get the animal on the first shot. I will agree that there are some people who over hunt and those people do cause problems.

Answer 3

Think of the difference in price if you hunt your own food. How much would it cost to have a steer dressed out and packaged? It propably would be about the same but you have to buy the steer and your kill was free. If you can butcher and pack your own meat, so much the better.

When I was growing up, if chicken was to be supper, a couple of chickens lost their heads that mornin'. We bought a calf to fatten up for butchering in the fall. We split our calf with a neighbor who had a hog & split with us. We had turkeys and eat one for Thankgiving and another one on Christmas Day.

Us kids had to do most of the plucking, except for the dip into scalding water. If you have ever smelled wet feathers you kinda know what it is like. We always killed several others to give to those who had no turkey for those two special days. The smell of wet feathers and blood is a smell we got used to.

I watched my granddad and great uncle pull a calf with a pick-up truck. I thought they were pulling the life out of that cow.

We gathered our own eggs, milk the cow and the goats,

It was a good way of life but the city moved in and we can no longer have the animals we used to have. Zoning says no to hogs & cows now.

Do you think this was a bad way to live? Having to raise & kill for food?

I feel sorry for kids who have never been on a farm or who have never seen these animals in real life. They are missing some of natures real beauty.

Answer 4

My uncle is hired by many deer sanctuaries to come hunt for deer season. They hire many hunters because the population gets so large that they'd essentially eat all the food available and starve to death. The hunters come in and pick off some of the deer to lower the population. He brings it home and dries it into deer jerky (Deer meat is HIGHLY flavorful. I suggest it 110%!)

Answer 5

i live in the woods, and see first-hand what happens when animal numbers go unchecked. it is very sad to see deer slowly die of disease and starvation, to see entire nests of baby turkeys eaten by uncontrolled coyotes, or to have you pet eaten by the same coyotes. rabbits get diseased and sickly, and die slow painful deaths. the animals that are regularly hunted are not on any endangered list. if you lived in an area where hunting takes place, you would see your garden, flowers, and yard eaten and ruined by unchecked populations of wild animals. your dogs and cats would be attacked and bitten, possibly given rabies, by racoons, who are in reality vicious animals who can easily drown a grown dog. you obviously have no first-hand knowledge of the ways of wild-life. is it worse to be killed instantly by a bullet, or to die slowly and painfully over weeks or days of disease and starvation?

Answer 6

Hunting for fun is sick and twisted. Hunting for food or portection is fine. You can't say that if you were faced with the choice to hunt or die, you would hunt. It is basic human instinct.

Answer 7

its ok to hunt for food.some just like the thrill of the hunt.

Answer 8

YES it is cruel to hunt for animals
people are stupid if they just do it for fun!

Answer 9

so that the species doesnt rule(if u know wht i mean) and yes i am with you there i hate poeple who hunt the only thing i do is fish and i dont even eat them cuz i dont like seafood so i let them go!!!!!