why is hunting bad?

Question

Give me a good reason you vegans.

So what do you think would happen if there wasn't hunting!

so how many species have gone extinct from hunting in the last 75 years?

Answer 1

Hunting is not bad. It thins the herd and makes the herd stronger. It also helps with overpopulation. I'm a vegan and I go hunting every year.

Answer 2

Hunting is legal but with restricitions. People hunt for a variety of reasons and those reasons are ethical in their minds regardless of what other people say.

The government issues hunting licenses based on the number of animals that can be culled from the wildlife population. That's why the number of licenses issued evry year varies. Only about 30-40% of all licenses issued are filled meaning the hunt was successful. Recent studies have showed that some wildlife species have suffered due to over population. Keep in mind that loss of habitat (mainly due to crop agriculture) is the biggest problem that most animals face. The land simply can no longer sustain large or "natural" numbers of animals. Even if you eliminate hunting, wildlife officers periodically cull a number of the animals to keep numbers down and the remaining healthy. They even castrate wild boars then release them (called barrow hogs). The animal rut also predates the hunting season so it's false to say the only the best are killed and the quality of the animals diminish.

Answer 3

I am a vegetarian and i am for hunting when it is well regulated and controlled with set limits and when people eat what they kill instead of stuff it and put it on their wall for some kind of stupid redneck vanity. I have known other semi-vegetarians who would hunt as well and the only meat they would eat would be what they had killed. I honestly think that hunting and vegetarianism are flip sides of the same coin in that they are both in a way responses to the overall societal problem of a general disconect with the food we eat. Further in some cases, such as deer in some regions, we are their only natural predator (generally because we have killed and chased away other predators) and if we dont hunt them, their numbers will rise to the point where there are overgrazing problems and they will die of starvation, or get hit by cars. Anyway it is head and shoulders better than going to the grocery store and buying factory farm meat.

Answer 4

I'm not a vegan, but a vegetarian who does not support killing of animals.

Do you realize how many animals have gone extinct due to hunting? If I remember reading it right, we lose hundreds of species a year due to human activity, when before it was about 10.

Our job is not to regulate the population. That's what carnivores do and the availability of food. Animal populations balance out due to natural causes.

Animals that are typically eaten for food like cows and chickens are mass-produced by hormones unnaturally by human interference. There wouldn't be so many if people didn't force that to be so. Otherwise, those animals would be subject to regulation by natural causes.

Answer 5

Well, I'm not a vegan but I am a vegetarian. I do not hunt because I will not kill or eat an animal. What you do and what you eat is your decision though, no matter how cruel it is, it is still your decision.

Answer 6

If you want to eat meat, you can go to the store and buy it. Back in the day it was necessary. now it's not. If you hunt responsibly and fully use every part of what you kill and you don't waste the life you just took, I guess that's not AS bad. It's kinda sad that some people kill defenseless animals to get their rocks off, but to each his own.

Answer 7

Is it realy important to hunt? Why is it so important to the eco system if humans dont hunt? Oh yes I clearly forgot we would be over run by wild animals - really. Give me a good reason you hunters why is hunting good?

BTW - that is by the way for people who may not understand have you ever had a vegan meal? Ever sat don and ate a vegan cookie or a vegetarian meal no ? Realy!! Go off and hunt then.

Answer 8

Hmm hunting for food vs factory farms.

Vegn*ns would say its because you kill the animal.

Answer 9

Because it is cruel to kill an animal, and even more cruel to kill it by shooting it in a way that doesn't immediately kill it.

Hunters also mess with ecology by selecting the healthiest bucks to shoot. Predators take out the weakest animals. So what humans are doing is exactly the opposite of what Nature intended.

I am not sure if hunters target female animals, but if they do, then they are condemning its fawns/pups/cubs/etc to starvation and death.

Answer 10

I don't think it is, unless it is done in a wasteful manner. Eat and use what you shoot. Clean kills only. One shot. Causing suffering when you don't need to is not cool.