Do you think trophy or non-survival hunting is acceptable?
I think hunting, as a "sport" is disgusting. By sport, I mean killing animals, just to kill them, or have them stuffed, so you can brag to your mindless buddies.
Killing animals, for meat, bone, & hide, is millenia old, and was necessary, before there were "grocery stores".
Using poison, or spring traps, or chasing them down with dogs, horses, snowmobiles, ATV's, helicopters, etc., is about as in-humane, as I can think of, for obvious, suffering, reasons.
Also, this "catch & release" bullshit anglers use, is CRAP. You "catch" a fish, rip the hook out of it's face or guts, and "release" it, bloody, back into the water . . . . where it will suffer, and later bleed to death. SERIOUSLY ?!
I live in Wisconsin, where sturgeon (fish), ducks, wild turkey, pheasant, quail, bear, deer, and other animals have hunting seasons, where a license is required. I DO NOT HUNT, FISH, OR SHOOT anything, but that's my personal choice. Our deer have "chronic wasting disease" - a brain virus, and many of our fish STILL have mercury poisoning and other toxins, and water-fowl, which migrate all over North America - Canada to Mexico/S.America, are susceptible to a whole host of aviary bacteria.
Even our domesticated animals, such as dairy cows, have "mad cow" disease....
While I don't have an issue with my friends, who DO hunt, fish, shoot - legally, I don't tolerate friends who "sport kill" wild animals, just to kill "something", or those who poach (hunt out-of-season) without a license. These are the same people, who typically abuse pets, and/or have an aggressive mindset, towards their relationships, other humans, and law enforcement.
Also NOT my kind of people, are those who hunt deer, for the antlers, or bear, for the fur or claws, or even fish, to have mounted - Trophy hunters. Trophy killing is sick, because a beautiful animal is taken out of the natural balance of the eco-system, so some moron, can show-off to others, that they killed an animal, who doesn't have a chance.
Look what we did, to the Amercian Bison (buffalo), in the 1800's, when the locomotives reached accross the West.... we shot them by the millions, out the train windows.... we didn't even eat them, or use their fur.... like native Americans did. We killed them, for "sport" almost to extinction. In the 1700's, we almost extincted the beaver, and American River Otter, for pelts, but at least we used them, for necessary "clothing".
We recently re-introduced the North American Grey Wolf, which were practically extincted by cattle ranchers, in the midwest.
In the early 1900's, ostrich & egret feather hats, were "fashionable" for well-to-do women. For almost 1,000 years, we hunted whales, for their meat, and blubber, which we turned into "whale oil" for indoor lighting, and almost extincted several species, including the sperm whale, of Moby Dick fame.
Today, there are assholes, who kill tigers, lions, rhinceros, elephants, and many other endangered animals, for TROPHY.
Years ago, when I worked for the U.S.D.A.while attending college, we had an "11th Commandment" . . . .
"We are stewards of the Earth, and must protect the flora and fauna, that they may exist, in harmony, with us"
Hunting for "sport" is a bad aspect of human nature | 8 | |
It's historical, but un-necessary | 0 | |
It's in our blood, as humans | 0 | |
Go to the grocery store | 0 | |
Hunting is fine, as long as the animal is used for survival: meat, skin, fur, etc. | 2 |