Hunting-against or for?

Question

I am very opinionated when it comes to this, I have family members who hunt and I really cannot stand it. Like the whole we need to keep the population down thing, if they that's true let them die peacfully and in their own natural born home. It's better than us blowing their heads of and then having the nerve to call that a sport. discusting! And then we gut them ourselves and take them to a butcher shop to be sliced into peices. I don't know about you but i can't sleep at night knowing that helpless animals are being harmed for human entertainment. It's just cruel and not right. It is just inhumane for us to do that stuff! However,I have no problem eating meat. But, let the poeple who's job it is to kill them for us. We oursleves don't have to make them suffer.


that's my opinion what's yours?

um yea, to all u dumb azzes calling me a hypocrite--have been REPORTED. thank you very much but i WAS ASKING FOR OPINIONS NOT JUDGMENTS im ticked.

Answer 1

I couldn't agree with you more!
lol, My dad said he wanted to start hunting...
(he hasn't.. and said he wont because I told him if he started hunting.. I would never talk to him again. lmao.)
I'm very animal friendly.. and I think hunting is just sick.
Just sick..
I don't see how somebody can go hunting and killing a animal for a sport. (that sh*tfaced game some people play.. trying to get most points.. or some crap like that.)

Anyway- I agree with you 100%!

Answer 2

I have a few opinions, and one of them is that if you don't have the courage to kill, gut, clean and butcher, you really don't have much moral standing when you eat meat, wear leather, or use animal products, so you need to keep a low profile about it.
I also think you need to get out more. Animals don't "die peacefully," but rather horribly. The game taken in hunting dies quickly and without suffering if we hunters do as we try. Starving to death is all too common and not at all gentle, and the entire population suffer, not just the ones that die. Look at the winter browse line in areas where deer, for instance, are over-populated, and see a few corpses of those that have starved, and it'll make a grown man cry.
You've also misplaced the hunter's idea of entertainment. It's the hunt that's entertaining, and the kill that's the natural consequence. The bloodthirsty nature of the sport is more akin to the bloodthirsty nature of the surgeon when he's removing a tumor. This, we hunters understand, is a hard concept for non-hunters to grasp, and we'll put up with a certain amount of this little insult to us with a shake of the head, but you should at least realize your ideas are not in congruence with those of the hunters, who have a better idea of what it's all about.
Again, the cruelty would be in not harvesting, and in the things like agriculture, roads and housing (mostly for non-hunters) removing habitat from the animals we hunters love.

Answer 3

Consider this, which would be more cruel, shooting an animal where they die quickly, or allowing them to starve to death due to lack of food because of over population? Would you want to be an animal that was hit by a car, but not killed and left to suffer beside the road? Hunters are not just out there to kill animals, many do so for food, and do you really think it is better if a butcher kills the meat for your table? Think about all the stuff they give the cattle, chickens, and turkeys just to make them more presentable for your dinner plate. It is a hunter's job to prevent animals from starving and controlling the populations, without the natural balance of nature, which happens to include humans, there would be a lack of food for all the animals. Starvation can take weeks of painful hunger for the animal. And do not think something like a deer is harmless, it could kill you with a well placed kick, or run in front of your car causing you do die from injuries. Under some situations, a deer will attack, and a female human is at the highest risk of being attacked by a buck during rutting season.

Answer 4

Eating meat and opposing hunting is hypocrisy. It's because people who do this are unrealistic and refuse to consider what had to happen for the meat to get to the market. Hunting just eliminates the middlemen.

A true hunter is not "entertained" by hunting and the goal is a clean, quick kill, not suffering.

Conservation is the wise use of natural resources. If nature produces a surplus, hunting is a way of harvesting it. Where predators have been reduced or eliminated, hunting is necessary to maintain the health of the herds. Where this was not done, animals reduce the food supply until they die of starvation and disease. Which is worse, starvation and disease or a well-aimed bullet?

Answer 5

I maketh every animal that walketh the earth food for you! GOD! And nowhere does he say that a butcher should do the killing.
An animal that is killed by a gunshot or even one killed with a bow expires in mear seconds and at worst a few minutes. An animal that dies from overpopulation ( disease or starvation) will suffer for weeks or months. How is this better or peacefull.
One of the most benefical aspects of hunting is the quality of the meat, no preservitives or growth hormones, much less fat and colesterol. Many doctors will allow heart patients to eat venison when they can't any other red meat.
If we ever have a national emergency and the supply of food dries up, which could happen, you'll be happy to have some hunters that may feed you.

Answer 6

So we're basing whether something is right or wrong on how much support you can have? I suppose if a majority of people thought it was a good idea to run every homosexual out of town like they were nothing but animals it would be considered morally okay? When people get so clouded by their "strong religious values" that they can't even see how they're hurting the right for a little girl to be treated like a decent human being, there's something very wrong with religion these days. What did the principal do wrong? The girl was being taunted and he added insult to injury by making her into a example. If he had any strong family values he would have firstly realized that sexuality, especially that of a TEENAGE GIRL, is a private and personal matter and to go announce to everyone like that was very unprofessional and wrong. He was a trusted adult that she sought guidance and comfort in and instead he used her an example of his anti-gay beliefs.

Answer 7

Why would you look for people agreeing with anti-hunter views in a section just for hunters, the only people you'll find are other morons who are looking for a fight. Animals don't die peacefully, they die when they are killed by a car, or are ripped to shreds by a predator. If some of the stuff that I have seen were to happened to me I would thank someone for shooting me. For example, I have seen whitetail deer being eaten, not subdued but eaten, by wolves while it was still living. Most of hunting anyway is using the meat for food, you don't eat a deer's head so that is why it gets mounted if it is a good one. I can tell you right now, more people in Ontario, Canada have to hunt whitetail. Their numbers have increased four fold in the last 50 years.

Answer 8

Opinion? A meat eater that is against hunting seems like a hypocrite. Are you talking deer hunting? - over population of deer in a area with car traffic leads to accidents, sometimes people die in car/ deer accidents- Wisconsin figures from 2005/2006 have 3 people dead, about 20 serious injuries, million dollar repair bills- insurance figure, doesn't include deductibles. The highest damage area includes the Dane county/Madison(state capital city) where hunting is greatly restricted as is city limits mostly. Perhaps you would like wolves in to control the deer? Madison city areas have hired law enforcement snipers with silenced rifles to control some deer in high traffic damage areas- it costs a bit, tax money pays for the shooting program, you willing to pay? Menominee area because of Indian lands has more like a 6 month hunting season, less traffic damage, more hardwood lumber for the furniture sawmills, healthy deer herd, a bit more money available . Small Game hunting like rabbits- the original fast food? Say no hunting rabbit to my sister trying to get in a garden and she'll tell you the choice is garden salad or hassenpfeffer. Does this opinion liven up the day ?

Answer 9

Hunting--for or against? What kind of question is this to ask on the hunting forum???

Do you eat meat? Do you use any animal products like leather clothes, footwear, leather furniture? Where do you suppose the Colonel gets his chicken? Where do you think your Mickey D's comes from? Are you so sheltered that you are unaware of what happens in slaughterhouses & packing houses? Domesticated animals are herded in and slaughtered. These poor brutes have no chance at all! Where do you think we get the expression, 'Like lambs to the slaughter.'

You can't sleep at night thinking of helpless animals being harmed? Yup, you're describing exactly what happens in the slaughterhouse where your Mickey D's burger and Colonel's fried chicken comes from!

A hunted animal always has the chance that the hunter will miss. He is in his element and can evade the hunter through natural camoflauge and knowledge of the wild. What can a herded animal led to the slaughter do? This kinda puts things into prospective, doesn't it. Food for though!

Don't waste your time and energy weeping for hunted animals. Cry for dogs forced to fight other dogs. Protest cruelty in commercial slaughter houses by hunting for your own game. If everyone did this eventually commercial slaughter houses would go out of business. After all, hunting IS the natural order of things. Eating commercially prepared beef pumped full of steroids, growth hormones & who knows what else is... Un-natural.

Best.

H

Answer 10

People have been hunting for centuries.... why is it now becoming a problem?

You're saying that you would rather have an animal die from starvation than have hunters reduce the population? How cruel!

I'm not a hunter because I couldn't bring myself to kill a living animal -- at least, not as long as I can drive to the store and get my hamburger. But, I don't have a problem with others hunting as long as either they use the meat or give it to someone who will, which is the case with most of the hunters I know.

Answer 11

I'd guess that you have never seen the horrendous way starving animals die when they proliferate and over graze their habitat. Nor have you seen the way they sicken and die from disease when over populated. You say you have no problem eating meat, but you obviously don't realize how and where that meat comes from. First, catttle are held in holding pens and force fed anti biotics and steroids, then they are pushed down a chute where they get to listen to the bellows and screams from the cattle ahead of them being hit in the back of the head with an air driven steel rod which stuns them, then, while still alive, they have steel hooks rammed into them and are lifted off the ground and the butchering process begins, while many are still alive. Yummy!! Don't even get me started on the cruelty done to calves that are processed into veal.
Most hunters, like myself, spend many hours working to insure that we can fire an accurate shot into an animal to be certain of a quick and humane death, without suffering. Many times, they don't even have time to realize they have been hit, before they are dead. Yes, I field dress the animals, and I also process them myself. The end result is healthy, natural and steroid free meat for my family. In addition, I don't think you realize that sportsman add billions of dollars every year to be used to maintain and protect animals, including helping to bring back species that were endangered by mis managment of years past. So, what have you given to protect and manage the animals you seem to care about? Volunteered to work at any places that help them? My daughter has, and she started hunting at age 9. My sons each started hunting at ages 8 and 9, both of them worked summers at a local animal rescue facility.
Before you condemn others, you should check into it more closely, and you should also find out where that leather you wear comes from, where your store bought meats come from, and the cruel practices used to obtain them. I respect anyones rights and opinions on hunting, or not hunting, but I find it difficult to give credit to un informed ranting and raving from people who don't bother to get the facts first. Oh, and by the way, scientists have proven that plants feel pain and actually give off a measurable pain responce when they are cut or harvested. So I guess you should give up wearing cotton or eating fruits and vegetables too.
Sorry if I offended, but I thought you needed to read some real facts.