Is hunting ok?

There's nothing wrong with hunting for fun. *killing* for fun is horrible, but most hunters don't get their fun from the killing - the fun bit is spending time (often days at a time) in the wilderness, never seeing another soul, being close to nature. You'd be surprised how much the mentality of hunting has in common with the mentality of environmentalism - most hunters are avid conservationists.

 

I agree!

 

Around here most hunters are rednecks with confederate flags in the back windows of their pickup trucks.

 

Yeah.. but you live in Ohio. So do I... and I can look out my window and see a sea of mullets and trucks with confederate flags and women in acid wash jeans. Every now and then, a car will drive by so plastered with those magnetic yellow ribbons that you can't tell the make or model.. or even if it is car... might just be a motorized yellow ribbon! Ohio ROCKS the same way KISS rocked! And thats HARD! lol.

don't even get me started about Saskatchewan... there is whole other breed of redneck up there!

 

it's okay to hunt.


animals hunt, and humans are animals.

don't listen to the hypocrites that tell you it's not okay to hunt, and then go and take a bite out of a nice juicy t-bone.

 

I eat mostly vegetarian, but have long since cast the title aside. It's no fun being KNOWN as a vegetarian and then being seen eating lasagna with meat and cheese in it. As for hunting... most states regulate the times and quantities that one can hunt. It is supposed to be done based on mating season, temperature of the region and probably whether or not there is specific disease going around that season.
I have NEVER understood the SPORT of hunting. If you want to shoot at something that moves, go to a penny arcade or shoot at clay pigeons. Killing animals for the purpose of having food for consumption is perfectly valid as far as I am concerned.
What bothers me, though, are poachers. People who hunt elephants for the tusks or deer for the head/antlers.

 

fair enough your opinon, yes animals hunt because they have to, they do it for surival, we dont achally need to hunt, we need to control the animals population but there are other ways of doing it. we need to control the human population but are we going to let animals kill us? no is the answer we wont. And people can be against hunting and still eat meat, they might be against the way the animal is killed thats all. i am a veggie and have been for years, i am against hunting and believe me i wont be going to 'take a bit out of a nice juicy t-bone' its not hypocritical to eat meat but be against the killing!!!!!!

 

I just don't understand why it would be necessary to kill an animal. It isn't as if we are cavemen and need to kill for survival. I think it must be something about "human nature" because there certainly are a lot of hunters who enjoy the "sport".
Perhaps I am too "sensitive" but I just don't get it!
Why?
What is good about it?
What joy comes from it?

 

Is hunting ok ???

In my opinion depends on why you are doing it, if it is or fun, then no
if it's for food or to cull a species then yes & all depends on how you do it.

If done humainly then fair enough but as foxes are hunted getting ripped to bits by dogs then no I'm totaly against it.

Hunting like fishing or shooting birds for food etc is totaly acceptable because
there is a just cause. There is a point to it. the animals are killed quite quickly
& experience little pain.

 

i think it depends on what animals you hunt, foxes, deer, rabbits - animals that can cause problems and their meat is needed. however, hunting near extinced animals isn't really a good/kind idea.

 

I think you'll find that hunters are amongst the people most aware of population dynamics. Most 'nature lovers' who don't hunt have horribly mis-guided views about how nature works - they think badgers are cute and fluffy vegetarians, for example. Hunters are confronted by nature "red in tooth and claw" all the time, so we know what's really going on behind the picture-postcard scene.

 

It seems alot of the people in here arent realizing that people hunt for the sport and for the food aspect of it. Its a challenge to hunt a deer. Well in Indiana it is anyway. NO highpowered rifles. Its a pastime it brings familys together. Its fun. I know so many hunters who are more in tune with the enviroment and how to protect it and conserve what we have. Poaching and killing animals for the hell of it is not my thing. But i like the challenge, the meat. I grew up around my father an avid hunter. There was always some kind of animals meat in the freezer. Its a part of my life and enjoy it very much. It taught me alot about life and not to take grocery stores for granted. Cause when the shit hits the fan. I wont be starving. I know how to survive and i think thats the most important part of it.

 

Hunting for the meat is fine with me, and Im a vegetarian. I prefer hunting to the torture and pain of the meat indistry. Hunting is quick and painless, and like a lot of you have said, many hunters are more intune with nature and shit then most people.

Poachers though... totally not cool. Sticking heads on a wall is not my idea of a trophy.

 

I live in Kentucky and hunting and fishing are very popular here. I used to see it all as very creul but i have grown away from those belifs i was a vegan for 7 years and when i got pregnant i decided to eat meat again (mostly due to cravings ) any way i have been a meat eater for two years since and now i see hunting as a better method to eat my meat i would much rather kill and clean the animal myself then buy it from a store for one i know exactly whats in my meat i use all parts that i possiably can... i do not agree with hunting or fishing for sport but if you can make a family event out of catching dinner why not... i feel that hunters are more tunned into the enviorment around them

 

i think its unfortunate that there are hunting seasons in certain areas (there is one here in michigan) but it is needed. overpopulation of deer is not good at all. i question why some people can't accept that. The blame really goes to population and expansion of humans. But as a result its something needed in order to balance the food chain.

oh well.