Hunting, What is your opinion on it? Options

[Jen]

I'm doing a paper for school, and now I'm really getting into it. It's about animal rights. I'm doing my paper about hunting. I'd actually like some feedback on it to maybe give me some more ideas?

What is your stance on hunting? Do you think it's humane? Are animals more humane than humans? Animals kill other animals the same reasons humans do. I actually hope to get some feedback from those who like to hunt. Why do you hunt? For the joy of the kill, for the sport, for the food? I'm actually really interested.

I'm a southern girl, so I'm obviously for hunting. But I think slaughterhouses are inhumane. It really strikes a nerve with me how animals are practically tortured to death. I think that slaughterhouses should be regulated more.

I was watching Buster on PBS. Um, I'm a kindergarten teacher so I'm pretty much forced to watch what my kids watch. Anyway on there they had a pig on a farm that they took to a fair for a contest. They raised this pig it's whole life. After this contest, they give the pig to the slaughterhouse with no emotion at all. I don't know.. maybe I'm too attached to my pets.. but I would never raise an animal just to send it away to get killed and eaten. I understand it's common practice.. but I would just shatter me if I did that.

Well, anyway what do you think? About hunting & slaughterhouses in general?

[Galcobar]

I eat meat, so it'd require an incredible level of hypocrisy to frown upon hunting.

However, as a contest against nature/yourself, I can respect bow hunters, and even more so those who go hunting with nothing but a knife. Guns are a bit too much of an advantage, particularly when combined with a tree-top blind and beer while you wait. Though I have to admire the guy with a .22 carbine going after the multi-ton moose.

I figure the ethical line is the infliction of pain. Killing an animal, well, that's how you get meat. It's how the killing is done that matters. Put it this way, I prefer to believe what I eat was killed in the same manner a predator kills its dinner -- as quickly as possible.

There's a reason why the most twisted killers we know all started with animal torture.

[BlackSTX]

I I can respect bow hunters, and even more so those who go hunting with nothing but a knife. [right][snapback]341656[/snapback][/right]

That's crazy, I've never heard of anyone going hunting with just a knife. How could you ever get close enough to kill anything?