Explain this to me..?

Question

Seriously, I don't need any haters.
You all have your opinions, and I have mine.

But, really - can anyone justify the point of hunting to me?
Yeah you go kill an animal, that's big fun, what else do you get out of it?

I can maybe understand if you are hunting for food, but hunting for sport really confuses me.

Thanks to any serious answerers..

Answer 1

As in the previous answer, many people hunt for food, some hunt for the challenge, and use the meat to feed their family. I hunt for several reasons. One, I grew up hunting to put food on the table. Two, I would much rather eat pure natural game meat, then the steroid/antibiotic/salmanella ridden excuse for meat sold by stores and markets. Three, I do everything in my power to insure that the animal receives a quick, painless, humane ending. Unlike the commercial processing plants where they heard the animals down a chute and slam it in the back of the head with a metal rod which sometimes kills, but many times just stuns the animal, which is then hung from hooks and dissembowled while still alive. No thank you!!
In addition, Sportsman pay out Billions of dollars every year to the economy, and more importantly, the pay out millions of dollars in license and tag fees that goes to support and protect animals. Our wild heards are larger and healthier than at any time in the past, mostly due to the money sportsman pay which is used to oversee, feed, and protect the herds at the high numbers. I have no problem with your question. I even respect your right to not eat meet if that is your choice. I only get bothered by gullable people who eat processed beef etc thinking that it is more humane. Or, the ones who decry hunting, while wearing items made from animal skins (leather) or cosmetics that were tested on animals and things like that. Also, I remember studies done back in the late 70's that should when a plant is harvested, or cut etc, it puts out a measurable signal that scientists likened to a scream.
Man is omnivorous, that is, we were made to eat meat and veggies. Look in the mirror and smile, those two "eye teeth" are canines designed for eating meat. Man is a predator, look at the location of your eyes. In front like any predator, prey animals have their eyes set to the sides of their head.
And my last reason is because I have seen the results of not hunting. Game animals starve, desease runs rampant decimating the herds, and the habitat is overgrazed causing other animals to starve or become easy prey to predators because they cannot hide from them.
You asked a good, fair question. I hope you feel that my answer was the same.

Answer 2

Yes, I can. It is justified by the fact that most will get their kill butchered so they may eat it, a responsible hunter would never let an animal spoil on purpose. One guy I hunt with really made me feel good about my hunting crew. He shot at a deer on his watch, but he was fighting off a cough so he only managed to wound it. Well, the next day we went out to track it, but a huge blizzard whipped up and covered all the tracks. He still went out to find the deer, but after 3 hours he just couldn't do it. He ended up finding the deer after the wolves had been chewing on it and it was too far gone to save. That is the only time I have ever seen him upset about something. That is what I would call a responsible hunter.

Answer 3

A lot of it has to do with tradition. I have little respect for hunters who only trophy hunt. I have hunted most of my life, but I always use the meat. Personally, I enjoy the experience of spending time outdoors, and hunting. I enjoy shooting my own food, and then taking it from the woods to the table. When I shoot it, clean it, and butcher it, I know where that meat has been, and how it was treated and handled. Honestly, I feel a little safer eating it than I do when I eat meat from a market that is of unknown origin. I mean, I'd reather eat meat from an animal that lived in a natural environment than from a cow that may have been treated badly, and may have been treated with who knows what kind of hormones, etc. But, that's just my opinion. I hope this helped explain hunting to you, at least to some degree. In the end, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

Answer 4

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 and game are 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 5

Let me explain this to you in very simple terms.

"it is illegal to waste the edible portion of any game animal or fish"-DNR

You have fallen for the animal rights groups lies. Sport hunting is something you wont find in North America, its is illegal to kill simply for fun.


"Yeah you go kill an animal, that's big fun, what else do you get out of it?"
1. Food, lots of fresh and clean meat
2. The enjoyment of being in the outdoors
3. Survival skills, the ability to survive on your own
4. Hides to make many use full things


You most likely live in the city and buy all your things from shops. I find such a lifestyle appalling. I prefer the fresh country air and clean land over city smog and concrete. I prefer to produce my own foods rather than being reliant upon others.

Answer 6

Big fun Surf??? Get real. EVERYTHING in nature hunts. Lions hunt. Bears hunt. Wolves hunt. Your domesticated tabby cat hunts. Even lambs hunt for greener pastures.

Man is a hunter/gatherer. It is Man's nature to hunt and provide. It is just the natural order of things. Those who say they hunt for 'sport' are really just looking for bragging rights. The best hunter is the best provider thus a leader in his own right. Those who don't hunt have lost their way. What else is there to say?

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Answer 7

Most hunters respect nature a great deal.

First there is a deer’s life. It’s born into a world of predators like; coyotes, wolves, bears, cougars etc. These predators will kill and eat deer…alive. Hunters kill the deer quickly and never eat them alive. Deer also starve to death and may freeze to death, thousands die each year this way. Over population of deer lead to a high winter kill ratio in deer. So the deer is faced with a very painful death in nature and at times long suffering. Hunting lowers winters death toll of deer, provides meat, controls population of deer and saves States millions in deer control. Hunting licenses provides money for game management, habitat, law enforcement etc. Hunter originations pump out millions to help wildlife.

There are MORE deer now in the USA than there were 200 years ago due to the forests turned into areas for agriculture. The are LESS predators to control deer populations. If we increased the predators numbers enough to control deer with out hunting millions of Americans would be up in arms about the cougar, wolf, bear etc in the back yards eating their loved pets.
Fact is anti-hunters are not knowledgeable enough to understand hunting’s role in wildlife management.
Nor do they realize how many things they use daily are made with animal products; glue, over 350 pharmaceuticals come from animals, also sunscreens, deodorants, soaps and shampoos, cosmetics, toothpastes and mouthwashes etc etc.
So educate yourself BEFORE you put down hunting!


http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-in...

Hunters were the FIRST environmentalists.
And we do more for wildlife than any one else!

Answer 8

The point is this.

IF it is okay to kill an animal to eat it, then it is okay to kill the animal for other reasons, as well.

A deer doesn't care WHY you are shooting at it. It will be no deader no matter what the hunter's motivations were.


Since the deer's natural predators (mountain lions) are in short supply right now... AND as long as there are acorns in the forest the deer that are already around will continue making more deer...Eventually the deer population reaches a point where some the deer WILL starve to death or will wander into a roadway looking for food. Hunters function to keep the deer population in check (like the mountain lions used to do.)

Again--whether he was to eat the deer, wear its skin, mount its head or none of the above--what difference does it make??

(Your objection shows (to me) that you don't care about the animals' welfare, in particular, you just want to control other human beings' behavior.)

Answer 9

You know...I have never really seen a sport hunter here. Go figure.....

I hunt for food. Period.

My wife is an animal rights activist and for her to agree with what I do is pretty big mojo.

She has gone with me on the hunts and has at least watched the cleanup and frankly she states that she approves of my madness. Holy effin sheeat.

I must be doing it right.

Answer 10

Food. It is cheaper, healthier, and very tasty to kill and eat a deer over buying meat in the store. $30 tags for each dear times 3 deers equals $90 for a whole years worth of meat for a family of 7. Not that deer is all that is eaten every day.