I don’t like trophy hunting. To me, it’s immoral to hunt just for the trophy and not for the food. For example, when I hear that somebody has killed the bear and took its gall bladder and nothing else, breaks my heart.
However, I do recognize the principle that hunting makes economic sense and actually helps prevent extinction of a species by creating an economic incentive to keep them around.
That I support.
Trophy hunters rarely leave the meat unharvested, and I doubt that there is an epidemic of gall bladder-less bears littering our forests. If you have proofs to the contrary, I’d love to see them.
If it wasn’t for trophy hunting in parts of Africa, some countries there would have no economy at all. A typical safari runs around $30,000.
While hunting is a hush-hush taboo subject in polite America, it is a necessary evil ( if you want to call it evil ). Thousands of people are killed each year due to animal/vehicle collisions. It can be argued that there is more wildlife now than ever before in American History.
Meat is meat: and the more harvested by hunters means less auto/animal collisions.
We are hunter/gatherers by nature; its what God intended. Whether you buy it at Walmart in cellophane or collect it on the road, or kill it and grill it your own bad self: Its what we do.
God gave us animal things to eat and use.
Get over it.
I, the hunter. You can call me Keith. I am of the woods.
God Bless, and Good Day.
I don’t call this hunting, but is it my business to tell people how to waste their money?
As long as they keep letting their stock breed and reproduce is it so bad?
I mean it’s not like they are planned parenthood killing off the breeding stock.
That's not hunting, it's poaching. It's a serious crime. Most trophey hunters eat the animals too, and if they don't they donate the meat to shelters or food pantries.