Poll: When is Hunting Acceptable?

[Zhukov]

I don't mind if it's done for food. We all have to eat.

But if you are running around killing and inflicting extreme pain purely for the sake of your own amusement then you are a bastard, plain and simple.

I regard people who hunt for sport on the same level as teenagers who torture their neighbour's pets.

 

[Aur0ra145]

I hunt for food.

With that said, I'd rather shoot a large buck than a smaller one. But in the end of the day, I'll kill whatever so me and my family has meat.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Only when done for food, if you say you can do it for population control then why not bomb China to control the population?

Hunting for sport is a lesser version of being a military sniper. at least the sniper is achieving something by bringing the world closer to peace. The hunter is expending a bullet and nothing get accomplished. Also in the military how are points determined when you shoot someone? I know there are like 6 point bucks so are there like 3 point corporals and 7 point officers?

Please, oh please tell me you're being sarchastic. A 6 point buck is a deer that has 6 tines on it's antlers. generally, a deer with a bigger set of antlers is older and therefore wiser and harder to kill. Just like bigger fish, that's why this is used as a measure of merit, because it's harder. And if sport hunting accomplishes nothing, than neither does gaming or reading a book. It is a form of entertainment and stress releif, and if you don't think that accomplishes anything I wonder why you're a member of the escapist.

Alright so I was wrong to say it accomplishes nothing BUT at the same time killing for stress relief is wrong in the same way it's wrong to kill your boss because he pisses you off.

As for a point system among say for example Iraqi officers:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/insignia-officer.htm
a mulazim is one point, a ra'id is worth 4, and if you manage to pop a mushir that's 11 points. That work for you?

 

[Zombus]

In my opinion hunting is a good way to control animal populations. For example say you have an endangered specie (for whatever reason) that is also being preyed upon by another, more abundant, specie. Encouraging hunters to hunt the predators is a cheap and effective way for a government to protect the endangered specie. Or say a foreign invasive specie has been introduced into some environment where it is growing at a feverish rate and putting strain on the aforementioned environment as well as its normal animal communities. In this situation hunting could be used to help control the population of the new specie or remove it altogether if it proves to be too harmful. I don't hunt myself but I do enjoy fishing casually; I occasionally have fished with my father and grandfather and while there are negative aspects to hunting as long as it is regulated it can have many positive repercussions as opposed to only negative ones. Unregulated over hunting will always be a problem, but that doesn't mean hunting is only something soulless monsters who hate animals do.

 

[Talvrae]

Well for me as long as it's done under regulations and that it dont get the animal population under a certain points. I'm always on the side to using hunting to regulate animal population, and for food

 

[PrimoThePro]

When I hunt, I use all of the animal. I also train others to hunt. I only use a knife. It's quite fun.

 

[OrdinaryGuy]

It's acceptable as long as the game population is large enough to support it. Where I live there is currently an overpopulation of deer, so the government is actually encouraging hunters to go out and hunt.

 

[TehCookie]

My view is don't waste what you take. If you kill a deer use it or give it to someone who will. I think people are slightly crazy when they consider killing fun, and people consider me strange when a pheasant flies into a window and dies and my first words were "Can we eat it?"

Yes that actually happened, and my mom didn't want me to make a mess attempting to de-feather and clean it so I was sadly disappointed. My cats got a treat though.

 

[Grounogeos]

I'm fine with it if you're hunting for food and the things you can use the animal's other parts for. That's why they're on the planet in the first fucking place.

 

[Canid117]

When its hunting season?

Thats all I got.

 

[Vitagen]

I know this probably seems redundant, but just don't kill anything that's in short supply.

 

[Eisenfaust]

sure... after all, what is a slaughterhouse beyond hunting, made easy?

 

[eljawa]

I would say it is acceptable when done for food, but that is a bit backwards.
If you are out in the wilderness and hungry enough to kill, you are probably not in the best condition to actually track something down and do so...

I think it means if you use meat from hunting as a food source rather than buying meat from cows that never left their pen

everyone: Read the Omnivores Dilemma, its a great book that puts things in perspective as far as slaughter houses and such.

I dont hunt, but I wish I did

and of course the human hunt is always acceptable

 

[captaincabbage]

I believe hunting is fine when dealing with out of control pests like rabbits, foxes and Kangaroos in Australia.

I'll often go hunting with my brother and stepdad for rabbits these days and I'll usually end up with a few good kills. Naturally, we'll take them home and cook them up, but when we go hunting for foxes we'll leave one out and camp out until dusk.

 

[Polock]

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.

Man you have to see where I come from. You THINK a lot of people still do it? Its like a religion where I come from. (Note: I hate it.)

But yeah its still pretty popular man. But I only condone it for food and minor population control.

 

[Womplord]

I think it's fine in any circumstance, unless it might do damage to the future of the species.

 

[superbatranger]

I say it's acceptable when it's done for food. Hunting animals just to mount their stuffed heads on the wall does not sit right with me.

 

[Hashime]

It is fine as long as it is legal and the animals don't go to waste.

 

[Sir Strange Of The House Lycan]

When youre hunting the greatest sport of all...
MAN!

 

[The Cheezy One]

Whenever sarah palin says it is, apparently
seriously, to keep down populations of a species, but only if they will have a negetive efect on the environment. This involves research, not just going out and saying so.