Poll: When is Hunting Acceptable?

[Shock and Awe]

When done for food and to help control population.

 

[Jumpingbean3]

Yes, I think that the perspective from which the OP is written illustrates an incomplete understanding of hunting which indicates that the Oposter has likely not been very immersed in that culture.

Hunting is done for more than just food or its fun to kill shit with guns. Growing up as a teen, It was a yearly responsibility to thin out the local squirrel population in the fall. This was done for several reasons. First and foremost, If left unchecked it would be impossible to grow a garden the following year. Living in a place where a garden constitutes roughly 1/4th of household productivity the loss of that would be catastrophic for the family. Secondly what was killed was used. The meat was either cooked for gravy, or the lesser cuts of meat was fed to farm animals. Occasionally the furs were also used for various things.

Also, you have to realize ANY species, whos growth is left unchecked leads to an unhealthy population that has a tendency to generate disease, which can be devastating to not just that specific animals population but the entire local ecosystem.

Dont get me wrong. I absolutely love animals. However I am realistic enough to realize that part of our responsibility as the dominant species on the planet is acting as stewards of the planet, and as such it falls to us to make logical and realistic decisions that protect the overall environment. Some times that does come with the unfortunate task of culling.

Hunting is a primal part of our existence, and it is still a relevant part of it as well.

If I had thought of these earlier I would have added them to the poll.

 

[meowchef]

I enjoy hunting every couple of years. I always eat what I hunt though.

 

[KarumaK]

Whensoever it is profitable, fun, or both.

 

[Madara XIII]

When its to control the population?

im gonna stop you there, as the most populated animal species on the planet, no human has any right to excecute another animal for over population. if we had any sense of justice, we'd all take shotguns into the local town with us and just go trigger crazy for ten minutes before picking up the milk

Not even Roaches?.....Those little Bastards can't hide behind PeTA forever

 

[Krafty_Krocodile]

well, I put down 'only for food' however my opinion on the subject also has one extra point to it, lets say you owned a very large zoo where there is interspecies interactions, for example Zebra's and Antelopes, now both breeds are quite rare, however due to an unknown reason the zebras were breeding at an unpredictable rate, and through various calculations if this breeding continues then the food supply for the Antelopes would diminish and unfortunately they might die out, so the solve the situation for rather letting one breed die out, hunting the zebras is acceptable to lower the concentration of them, but yet I still only feel that this should be acceptable if the corpse was used for food for the other animals or research

 

[Dys]

It is always acceptable to hunt introduced animals that destroy the environment, as well as for food (pretty sure that it's a legal requirement you have to kill any rabbit of fox caught in Australia).

When its to control the population?

im gonna stop you there, as the most populated animal species on the planet, no human has any right to excecute another animal for over population. if we had any sense of justice, we'd all take shotguns into the local town with us and just go trigger crazy for ten minutes before picking up the milk

You think humans are the most populated animal on the planet?

 

[Hoplon]

My problem with hunting for sport is that it invariably will get more elaborate and with hunting that goes hand in had with cruelty.

A chicken farmer Hunting foxes that can decimate his lively hood? not an issue.

Some smug arse on a horse with a dozen other equally smug tossers and 2 dozen hounds? that's cruelty for the sake of it.

Hunting for food or population/pest control is fine, even if most of the people are just doing it for the fun if it, it still serves a purpose. Any thing else is unacceptable.

 

[Twad]

Hunting is only acceptable when done for food, whilst naked and armed only with a knife, spears may be considered depending on naked attractiveness. Thats how manly men do it, manly women too.

No no no, real men only use their own bodies as weapons. Now go wrestle a bear!

 

[Madara XIII]

The moral high ground means nothing when you have a smoking creator where your face used to be.

The better person is the one left standing not the one who died like a dog.

o'contrare, i'd happily die knowing that my life wasn't a burden to anyone else, as opposed to dying knowing that, if there is a hell, i've got some SERIOUS explaining to do

Hahahah Indeed, I hear hell doesn't have a very good union...Damnit!!

But you are right seeing as how I'd rather die like a dog with some dignity rather than just being left alive....

Btw that is a Kickass Avatar XD

 

[DarkenedWolfEye]

Always, until it depletes the natural balance of things.

Humans are predators and without predators the ecosystem is thrown off.

True, but making a successful kill nowadays is easier than it used to be. It used to be that a whole group of us armed with primitive weapons had to band together to take down one animal, depending how big or dangerous it was, and this was such a difficult and risky task that we were happy to get red meat once a month.
Now, with a gun and good aim, we can kill pretty much anything that doesn't have a bulletproof skull. Humans are becoming too proficient as predators; this isn't even counting indirect killing via depletion of habitat.
I don't mind hunting so long as you make full use of the body (by which I mean eat it) and therefore don't waste the animal's death, and so long as it is strictly controlled to avoid overhunting. Anything else I cannot condone.

 

[Jumpingbean3]

I clicked for sport, just to be pedantic.

Hmmm how pedantic of you.
(no I have no idea what that means)

I actually looked it up on The Free Dictionary and here is it's definition of pedantic:

pe·danti·cal·ly adv.

Synonyms: pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic

These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.

 

[RelexCryo]

Hunting isn't the most popular pastime in this day and age but I think a lot of people still do it. Some people seem to condone hunting for food while others don't condone it in any case. So what do you think? When (if ever) do you consider hunting acceptable?

EDIT: Just to clarify I only placed the option to choose hunting only for sport in the name of fairplay. I'm honestly not expecting many people to vote for hunting only for sport.

Hunting is necessary to control overpopulation.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060504/ai_n16359337/

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I don't like the idea of hunting for sport, or endangered animals. But if you use the meat and other bits (antlers or what have you) then it's not worse ethically than eating any other meats. Possibly more ethical, depending on what you're eating (battery chickens anyone?).

 

[interspark]

Spoiler: snip

When its to control the population?

im gonna stop you there, as the most populated animal species on the planet, no human has any right to excecute another animal for over population. if we had any sense of justice, we'd all take shotguns into the local town with us and just go trigger crazy for ten minutes before picking up the milk

Not even Roaches?.....Those little Bastards can't hide behind PeTA forever

i honestly don't get why people hate roaches so much, sure they're not pretty (to some people) but they don't carry diseases and don't often eat our food,

fun fact- humans are the most populous species on earth but the second is Orcas AKA Killer Whales

 

[Crayzor]

I don't have a problem with it, unless it's purely for sport, or if the prey in question is a species bordering on extinction.

 

[interspark]

Btw that is a Kickass Avatar XD

haha, thanks

 

[Geekosaurus]

If it's well regulated; sure. Or, you know, if you've crash landed on an island and you need to eat.

 

[interspark]

If it's well regulated; sure. Or, you know, if you've crash landed on an island and you need to eat.

oh yeah, i agree with you there, if it's to survive then i think nature would be on your side but otherwise i frown on it quite heavily

 

[ninjajoeman]

Spoiler: snip

When its to control the population?

im gonna stop you there, as the most populated animal species on the planet, no human has any right to excecute another animal for over population. if we had any sense of justice, we'd all take shotguns into the local town with us and just go trigger crazy for ten minutes before picking up the milk

Not even Roaches?.....Those little Bastards can't hide behind PeTA forever

i honestly don't get why people hate roaches so much, sure they're not pretty (to some people) but they don't carry diseases and don't often eat our food,

fun fact- humans are the most populous species on earth but the second is Orcas AKA Killer Whales

so... we should kill the orcas?