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should hunting be banned? Anonymous
since there is no reason to eat wild animals, should hunting be banned? like they banned the dog hunts in england, we could ban all hunting!
>> Anonymous
sage
>> Anonymous
Yeah, because killing and eating animals that have spent their entire lives confined in cages and pens barely large enough to turn around, fed nutrient and iron deficient diets, and killed by chainsawing their heads off or slitting their throats is MUCH MORE HUMANE than shooting a wild animal. You are an idiot.
>> Anonymous
Actually, I grew up relatively poor, and to be able to afford a decent supply of healthy meat, my family had to hunt. Fuck you and burn in hell, you worthless, over-privileged, ignorant, trollling PETAfag.
>> Anonymous
>>125164
Seconded
>> Anonymous
>>125167
Thirded. I haven't had to hunt, so far, but if all hunting were banned... [shudder]
The OP pic is poaching. Poaching is already illegal, and shitloads of good it does.
>> Anonymous
>>125182

ITT: "WE LIKE THE SOUND GUNS MAKE!!! KABLAM!!!!"
>> Anonymous
>>125187

I like the sounds of PETAfags and animals crying better, but a gun is fine, too.

Also sage.
>> Anonymous
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Hey, faggot, hunting isn't always about whether you can eat it or not. This wolf and her pups maed awesome rugs, for example.
>> Anonymous
those gorillas look tasty
>> Anonymous
>>125194
now thats different, wolves are an endangered species you cunt!
>> Anonymous
Hunting helps manage populations, and I DO eat the animals I kill.
>> Anonymous
>>125198

thats bullshit, they could easily feed them animals some pills so they dont reproduce more than necessary, but not even that would normally be needed, nature limits itself
>> Anonymous
>>125157

niggers dont have morals silly OP
>> Anonymous
ITT we don't know the difference between poaching and hunting.

Hunting is generally regulated. Fox hunts were banned because the foxes suffered a lot. Bullets don't leave animals a lot of time to suffer.

Poaching, on the other hand, threatens protected species, and should always be illegal.
>> Anonymous
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I hunt, and it is very well regulated. You are required here where i live to take a 3 day, 8 hours each, long hunter safety class before you can even get a license. For big game, you need to apply for tags, which can take years. And in that class I learned all about why hunting is a natural necessity.

>>125200is an idiot. If you want nature to regulate itself, why the fuck would you give the animals an artifical drug to control how often they give birth? Talk about hypocritical. The reason why hunters are necessary is because that which used to control the populations (mostly wolves and such) do not exist in numbers great enough. Believe me, a herd of elk that is too big for itself runs out of food, leads to disease and famine, which can spread to other animals and makes everything in the area suffer. Hell, there have been many instances where the state will actually give out tags for free because the situation is so desperate. Hunting is a very necessary part of life, at least here in Colorado.
>> Anonymous
>>125197

You are a retard. There are only selected areas where the grey wolf is considered to be endangered (lower 48 states, mexico, parts of the middle east, Spain, etc). In most places, the wolf population is actually quite healthy. It is perfectly legal to hunt them in Canada, Alaska, and parts of Europe and Asia. These hunts are well-regulated to ensure that populations remain stable.

Nice try in your touching emotional appeal, but unfortunately it is baseless propaganda bullshit and you are an idiot.

>>125200

In a normal ecosystem, yes. However, in many places (such as all of the southern US states, both western and eastern), the top predators were killed off hundreds of years ago, so nature DOES NOT balance itself out. Therefor, populations of game animals grow out of control, leading to disease and starvation. Shooting the population excess is MUCH less cruel than letting them starve (and actually also less cruel than what a natural predator such as a wolf pack would do to a weakened animal).
>> Anonymous
>>125198
Here's a thought. If we hunt and kill the strong, healthy animals, then what about the animals we don't want, and go and join the rest of the population? Naturally the better animals get away; people with guns changes that.
>> Anonymous
>>125212
lol, we posted at the same time, but at least we agree
>> Anonymous
>>125200

Wow, what a great idea! Somehow, you've managed to hit on a solution that's inefficient AND expensive! So, are you going to buy the pills yourself and either catch all of these animals every few months to force them to eat it or pay other people to do it? Oh, wait, better shell out some serious cash to help DEVELOP the pills, too.

I hope that you are a troll or seriously underage. If not, you are a fucking tard.
>> Anonymous
I wish hunting was regulated properly where I live (housing development surrounded by forest)

You're not allowed to hunt within a certain radius of the development, to protect pets and people, but idiots do it anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>125218

The solution is obviously, then, to let the overpopulated animals starve to death slowly or die from disease.
>> Anonymous
Guns make everything better.

What would you rather eat stranded on an island: succulent boar, or moss growing on a rock?
>> Anonymous
but hunting kills the best and strongest animals, only the weak and ugly ones are left to live, that creates a animal-usa! how could that be better than feeding the animals food laced with hormones so they keep a healthy size herd?
>> Anonymous
>>125231

Because, fagface, the strongest animals eat the most food and so will be the ones who end up eating the pill-laced food and becoming sterile anyway. Plus, do you have any idea how much that would cost? Obviously, you do not pay taxes.
>> Anonymous
Also, animals that require culling by hunters are considered vermin. Who cares if we're weakening their genetics?
>> Anonymous
>>125157
Black on black crime? The nerve of them!
>> Anonymous
Simplisitically, we ruined their ecosystem by merely showing up, we have to be able to regulate it somehow or another. Hunting keeps the populations healthier in the long run anyway. I live in Wyoming, we have lots of animals, we have lots of hunting. Everyone is happy. Just don't kill the bears.... or wolves
>> Anonymous
I think the real question is where do we draw the line between

Hunting
&
Poaching

Ops pic disgusts me, that's killing an endangered species for profit, ie POACHING

but what about overpopulation of Deer. They're overpopulated because their natural predators have been nearly wiped out (Wolves). So human hunters need to keep the deer population in check

So hunting shouldn'y be banned, it should just be heavily regulated in my opinion
>> Anonymous
Ideally, we could ban hunting, because in an ideal world humans would be living a completely footprint-free lifestyle where we have zero impact on the existence of all other species.

But that's not the case. In many cases, hunting is deeply necessary for the continued balance of delicate ecosystems -- since we've killed natural predator species, we need to do the work of the predators ourselves.

Would it be better if we hadn't killed the predators in the first place? Definitely. But now that we have, we have a responsibility to mitigate the damage.

Animals like deer can quickly become a nuisance when they're overpopulated, and hunting is an easy and effective way to keep the population under control, while also allowing people to maintain a sport that they enjoy and find culturally important.
>> Anonymous
*sigh* holy shit we are all faggots arnt we?
>> Anonymous
it's noting i haven't scene on the news
>> Anonymous
Lulz

Rednecks.
>> Anonymous
>>125157
no
>> Anonymous
dude i want to shoot a silverback
>> Anonymous
I'm trying to understand the logic behind defending hunting and condemning poaching.

So it's only okay to hunt and kill an animal for sport, so long as there are a lot of them left to kill?
>> Anonymous
>>125299
I want to blow one off.

We should go hunting together.
>> Anonymous
>>125316
Right

It's called conservation.

As much as you Petafags would like to think all life is equal, IT'S NOT
>> Anonymous
Game is actually a lot healthier to eat than beef or pork. Also, are we supposed to stop other predators from hunting too, because humans aren't the only ones who hunt?
>> Anonymous
>>125316

Yes, because it is an issue of preventing species extinction, NOT an issue of being against killing animals.

Most people eat meat, wear leather, take medications, or use any number of cleaning, health, and beauty supplies which were tested on animals. If you fall into any of those categories and yet still condemn hunting, you are a fucking hypocrite.
>> Anonymous
>>125319

That's exactly the point.

Killing a Gorilla to sell its hands and discarding the rest is wrong.

Killing a deer for food and to keep the population wrong is right. THAT'S NATURAL

>>125316
As much as you Petafags love life, you have a startling lack of understanding of it
>> Anonymous
Typical liberal position: I don't like what someone does so I want it banned regardless of whether or not it affects me.
>> Anonymous
Fact: there are populations of animals that need to be maintained by artificial sources like hunting, so that the predator:prey ratio remains in tact
>> Anonymous
>>125335
Well yea I agree that we do keep the ratio intact but arn't we to blame for the increase of a predator/prey in certain area thus leading to us having to fix it? Also yea, you kill it yourself fuck what everyone else says EAT THAT MOTHER FUCKER UP!
>> Anonymous
Wild animals know to avoid us.

Domestic stock is never given the chance the establish that we intend to harm it. After we supply it with everything it needs to reach adulthood, we kill it. It never had the option of survival.

Not a particularly compelling argument, but it's a large part of why I'm a vegetarian.

I'd much rather we hunt than continue to raise stock the way we do. I'd worry, though, that if everyone was hunting, the prey species' population would quickly turn to nothing.
>> Anonymous
>>125167
LULZ you poor little cunt bag living in your third world country. go buy an ak47 and play with your friends you poor shit. hunting to eat? that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard.
>> Anonymous
>>125329
what about the typical conservative position against gays? barring them from sex and marriage whether or not it affects you?
>> Anonymous
>>125387

Why, because mommy and daddykins made enough money to buy you nice things when they weren't too busy cornholing you and teaching you that only rich people in fucking middle class white America are actually human beings? Go back to your condo and whack off to another issue of CatFancy, you holier-than-thou, bigoted piece of PETAfag shit.

>>125388

This is why I vote libertarian.
>> Anonymous
>>125403

LOL!
>> Anonymous
Animals are delicious
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>>125418
Terror makes them taste even better. That's why veal is so awesome.
>> Anonymous
>>125419
sex with you must be "interesting" given your epicurean tastes and ideas...
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SI

/b/ has become epic once more.
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>>125420
Why does the conversation always gravitate towards my dick? Yes, I'm a kinky faggot.


On topic, I have no problem with hunting or eating meat, as long as the creature is taken care of beforehand (not tortured, as much as I love to joke about it), and killed as humanely as possible. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. I don't like hunters that shoot a deer in the leg so they can "practice tracking" it, but I'm fine with hunters that kill for deer for their antlers. I am not in a position to prevent it, and for the most part, I don't really care.
>> Anonymous
>>125434
your dick has a <i>gravitational field</i>?
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>>125442
Apparently. Good job with the html, little buddy.
>> Anonymous
>>125442
I, for one, believe it would feel out of this world
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>>125444
Uh. Thanks?
>> Anonymous
I saw this and went 'Is this from the genocide of Rwanda?'
>> Anonymous
This whole thread is one gigantic facepalm.
>> Anonymous
THEY'RE LIKE ANIMALS

AND I SLAUGHTERED THEM LIKE ANIMALS

I HATE THEM
>> Anonymous
Anyone who wants to ban hunting is a furfag
>> Anonymous
lol i just like to shoot them. i have no excuse to eat them. deer meat tastes like shit.
>> Anonymous
>>125847
Depends on how you prepare it. I know someone who makes REALLY good sausages and burgers with deer.
>> Anonymous
>>125847

my wife hunts deer off her parents land in northern MN and it is almost like beef. they eat corn/etc from the farm fields and it is like domesticated cows. so you should stop eating shitty swamp buck and try real deer meat.
>> Anonymous
>>125890
The whole point of venison is that it's supposed to be lean and NOT like beef.

On an aside, anybody notice that people like spicing venison or otherwise burying it under other flavors? Never got that, since it rocks on its own.
>> Anonymous
ha ha
primates hunting primates
>> Anonymous
Anyone who shoots a deer and then throws all the meat to waste should be shot in the gut.
>> Anonymous
>>125928
Planet of the Apes II: Payback Time
>> Anonymous
sorry to people who thought this was out of bad taste but......
>> Anonymous
>>126237
I see what you did there. Too bad it's been old since three years ago.
>> Anonymous
you all realize game hunting is getting less and less interest and will eventually just stop being anything but a hobby for very few individuals?
>> Anonymous
the dodo bird is extinct due to taxidermy, among other animals.

i think it's very disturbing to kill an animal for no reason or because you want to feel proud of yourself. it's not a sport. it's violence.
>> Anonymous
>>126318

You a fucking retard. The dodo became extinct because of the destruction of its forest habitat and, more importantly, the importation of pigs, rats, and cats which ate or destroyed dodo nests. It had nothing to do with hunting or "taxidermy."
>> Anonymous
>>126318
The dodo bird went extinct because of taxidermy? Are you kidding me? Where do you live that taxidermy is that popular?
>> Anonymous
Personally, the people who "hunt out of love and respect for nature" have always creeped me out a lot more than people who hunt to see some blood. OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL, I MUST SHOW MY ADMIRATION BY KILLING IT

In short, hunters are kind of worrying, especially trophy ones.
>> Anonymous
Fuck you.
There's a huge difference between hunting an endangered species(poaching) and hunting an over populated, invasive species.

Plus, I like taxidermy. Only interested in small game and deer though.
Deer taste good.
>> Anonymous
>>125388
Obviously we need to wipe out both ideologies.

As for hunting/vegetarianism/PETA/ect...

I don't apply human ethics to animals because animals don't even know what the fuck they are. That doesn't mean I believe in killing for fun or making the animals suffer before they die. The fact is animal cruelty sickens me. However an animal is simply not a human and as long as it isn't endangered I see no problem with hunting. A silverback gorilla is obviously something else.
>> Anonymous
hunting is fun, and knowing your doing so much damage just for yourself, like your the king of the world or somthing is also fun.

i'm pro hunting and pro violence against women

~leviathanel (what am i doing out of /b/?)
>> Anonymous
>>126379
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's evil, conservatard.

Perhaps people like that like to get back into nature by hunting? As any predator would hunt. "oh but they use gunz lol" --yes, many do and there isn't anything wrong with that. Nature gave us shit in the way of natural defenses except for one thing: our brain. Seems you got shafted though.
>> Anonymous
>>126413
FYI. Humans are animals.
>> Anonymous
Humans aren't endangered. Let's hunt them.
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>>126433
Seconded. Hufu is delicious, I cannot imagine the culinary delight that well-roasted human would be. Supposedly, the best kind of person to eat is, no joke, a plump early-twenties female.
>> Anonymous
>>126440
argh. with all the artificial crap we eat?
no thank you.

unless she's put on some sort of organic diet.
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>>126443
Eh, I don't know, supposedly all the chemicals and whatnot in our food is what makes the wimmins get curvy earlier. I was a bit off before, it's actually a "post pubescent, mildly overweight female" that is the best, and you are supposed to eat the thigh. I'm not saying we should kill a girl to eat her, but if you are ever in a plane wreck or somesuch, and there was a choice between starvation, an old dead guy, or a freshly-deceased chubby chick..
>> Anonymous
You could always make old dead guy jerky...
>> Anonymous
third!
>> Anonymous
>>125164
You eat primate?
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>>126449
I would really rather not do anything that involves old guys, especially dead ones, and jerking.
>> Anonymous
I'd rather have hunters regulate the deer population with bullets in the forests rather than me regulating the deer population with my car on the roads
>> 4tran
>>126440
Let's put those aborted fetuses to use. The gov may be opposed to stem cell research, but they won't be on a full stomach. Also, I've heard that those inflicted with kuru taste especially tasty.

>>126443
new use for petafags?

>>anti hunting people
HUNT ME SOME AUSTRALIAN RABBITS

>>pro hunting people
Please remember to save some pandas for future generations.
>> Anonymous
>>125376
Same reasoning here.
>> Anonymous
if hunting is banned, there will be no way to manage populations of wildlife. If this happens they were over-reproduce, destroy what little good habitat is left, and then will have a mass die off due to emancipation and starvation. *Regulated* hunting simply keeps the populations in check