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?

[Sh0gunkid8721]

I'm not a huge animal rights activisist or nothin but i think that hunting is TOTALLY wrong. Killing living things for fun should not be allowed, and if it is, then killing people should be legal as well. I dont buy into that "OVERPOPULATED" cr*p either (when it comes to bear or deer season). If that was the case, then should we go into overpopulated countries such as China or India and kill people to decrease the population? I dont buy into that. Whenever i see videos of hunters gettin mauled by lions, tigers, or whatever, i just sit there and laugh and wish i was there watchin it in person cuz i show no sympathy for them what so ever. I find it funny that laws in the US contradict themselves as you arent allowed to abuse pets at home, but its ok for u to shoot other animals? Such a load of sh** to me.

This post has been edited by Sh0gunkid8721: Oct 6, 2005 - 4:25 PM

[jgreening]

I'm not a huge animal rights activisist or nothin but i think that hunting is TOTALLY wrong.  Killing living things for fun should not be allowed, and if it is, then killing people should be legal as well.  I dont buy into that "OVERPOPULATED" cr*p either (when it comes to bear or deer season).  If that was the case, then should we go into overpopulated countries such as China or India and kill people to decrease the population?  I dont buy into that.  Whenever i see videos of hunters gettin mauled by lions, tigers, or whatever, i just sit there and laugh and wish i was there watchin it in person cuz i show no sympathy for them what so ever.  I find it funny that laws in the US contradict themselves as you arent allowed to abuse pets at home, but its ok for u to shoot other animals?  Such a load of sh** to me.
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What about mosquitos? If I kill a mosquito, am I a murderer? LOL. Regardless of the animal, surely you don't mean to suggest that killing animals is on the same moral plane as killing people......

Also, the overpopulation argument is not crap. I don't know if you live in an area with a lot of deer but I can tell you this: the annual population of deer is directly proportional to the number of traffic accidents (some involving serious injuries and death) involving deer. Also, they eat crops, new trees, and cause many other problems that hunters could tell you about. I am not a hunter but I think controlling these populations makes some sense.

[Sh0gunkid8721]

I'm not a huge animal rights activisist or nothin but i think that hunting is TOTALLY wrong.  Killing living things for fun should not be allowed, and if it is, then killing people should be legal as well.  I dont buy into that "OVERPOPULATED" cr*p either (when it comes to bear or deer season).  If that was the case, then should we go into overpopulated countries such as China or India and kill people to decrease the population?  I dont buy into that.  Whenever i see videos of hunters gettin mauled by lions, tigers, or whatever, i just sit there and laugh and wish i was there watchin it in person cuz i show no sympathy for them what so ever.  I find it funny that laws in the US contradict themselves as you arent allowed to abuse pets at home, but its ok for u to shoot other animals?  Such a load of sh** to me.
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What about mosquitos? If I kill a mosquito, am I a murderer? LOL. Regardless of the animal, surely you don't mean to suggest that killing animals is on the same moral plane as killing people......

Also, the overpopulation argument is not crap. I don't know if you live in an area with a lot of deer but I can tell you this: the annual population of deer is directly proportional to the number of traffic accidents (some involving serious injuries and death) involving deer. Also, they eat crops, new trees, and cause many other problems that hunters could tell you about. I am not a hunter but I think controlling these populations makes some sense.
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I live in the middle of the f*ckin woods. On the mountains in Northern NJ. I KNOW about Bears, foxes, wolves, deers, snakes and everything. Still doesnt give them the rights. Animals were here before we were, so its THEIR land that we invaded and decided to build roads on so u cant fault them for tryin to cross a road to get somewhere. I still consider it their land. Ive avoided MANY MANY deers in my life in the woods. Thats still no excuse. Controlling populations is just their way of giving hunters satisfaction.

This post has been edited by Sh0gunkid8721: Oct 6, 2005 - 5:51 PM