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

[BlackSTX]

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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You need a hug... go hug a tree. Human beings and our ancestors have been killing, and have been killed by animals for millions of years. It's a part of the cycle of life and the food chain. Yeah, I think some people who hunt are morons, but the act of killing an animal is not wrong. Is a cougar that kills a deer a murderer? No. When my cat kills a bird, mouse, or chipmunk, is she a murderer? No. Killing an animal should never be compared to killing a human being. Human life is far more valuable than an animals. If you derive any pleasure out of watching a human being killed by anything, than you're a sick, sadistic person and just as bad those people you despise. There are many people who have different opinions than myself, but I would never laugh at them being killed, and they're entitled to their own opinion. I think hunting is okay, so I occasionally do it, and if you don't agree with it, then don't do it. But don't deny someone else's right to do it.