Do you think that Hunting animals for pleasure is a pro or con?Why?

Question

Animals are getting killed because of that time of year where hunters can hunt animals for pleasure. I'm no vegitarian but I still think that is wrong.

Answer 1

Another one who needs some logic.

Dear anti-hunter please read this.

Next to my house there are million dieing salmon. Yep thousands are gasping for life with nasty fungi and mold growing on their bodies, other just lay there as the eagles and ravens pick out there eyes while they die.
What horrible thing happened to them? Was it man? A toxic waste spill? Nope it’s called: “death after spawning”.
All natural death and suffering. Its called natures way.

Things eat each other in nature that’s the way it works. It’s all about the food chain. And we humans are on top of that food chain because we use our brain and devise ways to stay there.
We are mammals that eat food to stay alive and fish is a very important food source for man.

So you can cry crocodile tears over the animals all you want. Please do! But it won’t change a thing silly!

For you see if man doesn’t shoot the dear, duck, etc or catch the fish; its still going to die a painful death. There is no way around this fact. When a big fishy eats a little fishy,…um it must hurt some don’t you think? Suffocating in that big fishy’s gut while the stomach acids eat away your flesh. Or the deer who slowly starves to death or is eaten alive by a predator. Or the duck who is eaten alive by the eagle.

Over 350 pharmaceuticals are made from animals, cosmetics, glue, and thousands of things you use every day. You have no idea how you life would be with out animal products.

You anti hunter/fishermen people are incredibly naive.
But there is no reason good enough for you to bug the hell out of sportsman.

Answer 2

The normal arguements are Foxes need controlling anyway, which is true in some areas. The survival of the hounds depends on it, which is also true if not the best of justifications. That it helps the foxes because only the weakest get caught. This is highly unlikely and contradicts the first argument. It is the most humane way to control foxes. This is debatable. Poisoning and shooting can lead to long painful deaths, but is chasing a petrified animal around the countryside before killing it extremely quickly much better. I think the answer is yes, but the harm should be minimised. I have no objection to people stalking animals for sport as long as they are not harming the environment in the process. When the stalking is successful the question is whether or not to kill the animal or record it with a camera. There is a need to kull animals like deer which I agree with and killing for food or to control vermin seems reasonable as well. Killling just for the sake of killing or for trophys to stuff, I don't agree with.

Answer 3

I would say where I am from in particular it is pro. I deer hunt every year for the purpose of the meat mainly but I do hold off to try and take a trophy which is the pleasure of it. Many people in my area hunt solely for the hunt and then donate the animal to charity or a soup kitchen to feed the homeless and others. There are actually few people that hunt legally and only keep the animal for the skin or mount, but that's just my take.

Answer 4

Well it really depends were your pleasure lies. During hunting season my biggest enjoyment is the 9 days spent in hunting camp miles away from any road, another pleasure is the reward of having a freezer full of meat for a year. But the plain truth of it is some people just like the thrill of the kill others it is the thrill of the chase neither is wrong, after all we're not much different than wolves or bears we're just governed by laws.

Answer 5

If people didn't hunt, then the populations of the animals would become to large for the land to withstand. The land would be destroyed from over graving, and the animals would become sick, and die.

Hunting allows for herds to be maintained at a proper level for the environment. Maintaining the environment in a balanced state allows for the wildlife to prosper.

Any basic environmental classes in college, or even a hunters safety course provided by most states, will explain, in detail, why hunting is mandatory in order to maintain a healthy environment.

As a side note, my household has many vegans in it, and we all support the humane treatment of all living things. Hunting is much more humane than allowing animals to die of illness and starvation.

Answer 6

when the state government determines how many animals are allowed to be taken by each person during hunting season they look at the population of said animal. deer start to overrun the area and u will see more car accidents from people hitting them, more of them dying from lack of food.
when u get a tag to hunt animals there is a limit, and it is stated very obviously that they are to be killed quickly, and not tortured.
i am not a hunter, but my husband is and i can kind of see both sides.
people who say we need to let the animals all run free are kind of in a dream world. unless they control the population by fixing the animals so they could not all breed, there will be so many that they would not have an available food source. u have to take into consideration the fact that humans are building and building, and destroying so much of the plant life.

Answer 7

This question was not about hunting for meat... but hunting for the sport of killing the beast.

While I do not condone sport hunting for trophy only, I do support hunting for eating and removal of pest animals (birds eating crops, animals terrorizing locals in 3rd world countries,etc)

while I do take pleasure in the hunt, I do not do it for that primary purpose.

Answer 8

Most hunters in the US are safe and responsible animal harvesters. The hunt and the kill are pleasurable as they raise adrenaline flow and endorphins. 99 percent of the hunters out there hunt legally, and they use the animal they harvest. There is the one percent (idiots) that shoot and kill animals illegally, or kill them and leave them. Those people, when discovered, are generally turned in to authorities by those who play by the rules. But please know that most hunters, although they do derive pleasure in preparing, stalking or waiting, and in making the kill, whether via bow, or rifle or primitive weapon, are not killing just for the sake of killing. They are helping to maintain healthy animal populations, not only of the animals they are hunting, but of the entire food chain by eliminating overpopulation and limiting urban movement of wildlife where human interaction would be of certain detriment.

Answer 9

Wow. You should go to the peta site and watch some of their slaughterhouse 5 videos.

That will make you realize just how hypocritical your "I'm no vegitarian but I still think that is wrong" bit sounds.

Enjoy your Turkey this year? Make sure that Mikkey D's burger you eat tomorrow tastes great. Two animals got gutted and treated much more horribly than we treat them in order to feed your carcass.

Answer 10

con for pleasure only I am against you should eat what you kill I am a hunter and I take pleasure in hunting but I also eat what I kill