“Nice little bit of hyperbole there. Hunting is not poaching. Hunting raises fees that are used to STOP poaching and to better manage the herd.”
Hunting is technically legalized poaching. The only difference is that hunters do not do it for money, but for ego and souvenirs.
You could even say that at least poachers do it to make a living. Hunters just do it for ego-boost. Killing a free roaming wild animal in its own natural habitat for no reason other than to gain an unhealthy dose of ego-boost is nothing to be proud of.
Hunting is harvesting a God-given renewable resource.
Hunting is stewardship and a neccessary part of proper management.
You do know, don’t you, that meat does not naturally come in little, Styrofoam trays? Someone had to kill that critter you et fer dinner last night. Some of us, however, are willing to do their own killing rather than pay someone else to do the dirty work.
Hunting is technically legalized poaching. The only difference is that hunters do not do it for money, but for ego and souvenirs.
100% incorrect. Hunting is the legal taking of animal resource by legal means for legal purposes.
Poaching is taking of animal resources ILLEGALLY with no regard of laws or management.
You could even say that at least poachers do it to make a living. Hunters just do it for ego-boost.
That would be your opinion, not to be confused with facts.
Killing a free roaming wild animal in its own natural habitat for no reason other than to gain an unhealthy dose of ego-boost is nothing to be proud of.
Again, your uneducated opinion based on emotion or maybe some religious doctrine. Not to be construed with fact or reality.
Now please answer this. What is more ethical:
A. To allow legalized hunting to support the management and protection of the herd as a whole.
OR
B. Not allow legalized hunting and so not be able to afford to protect the herd so it is reduced to endangered status from poaching?
All hunters *I* know do it for food. We’ve always eaten every bit of venison H has brought home. My FIL, BIL, everyone I know eats it. Not a lot of bragging among any of them.
Do you eat meat at all? I guess it’s ok if you go buy your meat on a little styrofoam tray wrapped up in plastic wrap. Do you think it’s grown like that? I can tell you, the deer H has shot suffered a lot less than the cows and pigs that are now on display in the meat aisle.
I am assuming with your post you are a vegetarian and don’t eat meat?
Don’t wear leather or fur?
Drive cars with leather seats?
And certainly you don’t wear silk, made from an animal (insect)?
You obviously have no knowledge about hunting, except from the propaganda put out by animal rights folks. You are in for an education on this thread.