Hunting Animals

[dauntingknight]

I run across a couple of people every now and then who think that hunters should go to hell because they kill animals and animals are just like human beings so I am taking a poll to see what you guys think about it.
I think that we can hunt them when we do it in moderation and we take every possible piece of meat that we possibly take to eat and share with other people.

[Jesus_lol]

i voted for food and sport, and in moderation. its okay to have fun hunting, after all it is kind of instinct, challenge and all, but you should have the responsibility to not let the animal go to waste after you kill it.

so if you are gonna shoot deer, why the heck not eat venison?

[Ash Wednesday]

I don't have a problem with hunting so long as the animals aren't endangered, killed humanely and there's some kind of usage out of it, i.e. food and skins.

I also don't have a problem with shooting known pests like (where I come from) starlings or other animals that are overpopulating an area.

[Tinkerlina]

[quote name='dauntingknight' post='1712643' date='Nov 28 2008, 03:13 AM']I run across a couple of people every now and then who think that hunters should go to hell because they kill animals and animals are just like human beings so I am taking a poll to see what you guys think about it.
I think that we can hunt them when we do it in moderation and we take every possible piece of meat that we possibly take to eat and share with other people.[/quote]

I am against hunting myself as I believe that hunting/eating meat is generally unnecessary today where we have great ability to utilize a variety of vegetable sources from across the world to make a variety of nutritionally adequate foods. However, I voted "moderation" because I think there are some circumstances, potential or hypothetical, where hunting is permissible if it is done soley for food, every part of the animal is used and the animal is killed in a very humane way. And actually, though I don't support any animals being killed, hunting is probably much more humane than factory farming. -Katie

[CatherineM]

As long as the animal is killed humanely, and the meat and hide is used, I see no immorality. Even people who kill for the sport of it are okay as long as they make sure the animal is used. There are charities in Oklahoma that get deer meat every hunting season.

I do wonder about people who spend huge sums of money to go all over the world to hunt rare or endangered species. I know that it provides some funds for local people, but at a pretty high cost. How would we like it if people from Malaysia came over to hunt bald eagle?

[icelandic_iceskater]

food, sport, food & hide, and when done in moderation.

Personally I can't bring myself to slap a mosquito thats biting my arm, let alone actually shoot something. But I don't have a prob with others doing it, so long as its legal & in moderation.

P.S. Welcome to phatmass, dauntingknight

Edited November 28, 2008 by icelandic_iceskater

[T-Bone _]

Anyone who is against hunting for food better be a vegitarian.

[Paddington]

I'm against bear hunting.

And Ted Nugent's "shoot prarie dog parties."

It's always Ted Nugent with me.

[Justin86]

[quote name='Paddington' post='1712745' date='Nov 29 2008, 01:13 AM']I'm against bear hunting.

And Ted Nugent's "shoot prarie dog parties."

It's always Ted Nugent with me. [/quote]
Ted Nugent is coming for you right now to give you a roundhouse kick to the face for that post.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Paddington' post='1712745' date='Nov 28 2008, 09:13 AM']I'm against bear hunting.

And Ted Nugent's "shoot prarie dog parties."

It's always Ted Nugent with me. [/quote]

They're not real dogs. You know that, right?

[Ash Wednesday]

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[Paddington]

Shemane????

[Paddington]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1712746' date='Nov 28 2008, 02:44 PM']Ted Nugent is coming for you right now to give you a roundhouse kick to the face for that post.[/quote]

Before or after I swipe his head off?

[Paddington]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1712756' date='Nov 28 2008, 02:58 PM']They're not real dogs. You know that, right?

[/quote]

Because they are smaller and can find their own food?

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1712741' date='Nov 28 2008, 10:08 AM']Anyone who is against hunting for food better be a vegitarian.[/quote]

i'm a vegetarian, but i'm not against hunting for food.