Poll: When is Hunting Acceptable?

[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?

 

[jamradar]

Hunting is pretty fun, if you've never gone hunting than you really should.

 

[ecoho]

hunting is not only ethical its ecological. since we as humans have thined out other preditors we must take their place and hunt the animals so they dont starve to death.

 

[XT inc]

The only logical answer is for food and population control, to keep the balance in nature brought about by mans tampering. Foreign species that get brought over here and have their population explode in alien climates.

Hunting for sport or fun just seems dumb to me. I mean Going out to kill something with technology far greater than any creatures bare form. Even Bows and arrows are to advanced.

rare would be an animal species that kills for fun. You don't see a tiger fucking up some people for a laugh. I can never understand the joy of shooting a squirrel with a .22.

 

[interspark]

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

so... we should kill the orcas?

*facepalm*

 

[SargeGO]

When me and my family lived in Montana, we went hunting once or twice a year. We did it for food, because one deer could supply use with about 1 year worth of food. Since we moved to Washington, we hunt less, but when we get something we always use as much meat as possible. So I agree with hunting, as long as you use the meat.

 

[interspark]

hunting is not only ethical its ecological. since we as humans have thined out other preditors we must take their place and hunt the animals so they dont starve to death.

so essentially what you're saying is "we've killed the other animals so much, the only solution is to keep killing them, only for fun aswell as food"? we kill HERBIVORES in hunting, as we do in our day to day lives in farms, only in farming we breed animals solely to kill them so it's a pretty stable system. going into the woods and going on a kill frenzy won't have ANY kind of positive outcome

 

[RedRussian]

If it's tasty, blow it's head off. It probably had a better, though a little more stressed, life than farm animals.

Meh, probably not in this day and age when "farm" animals are packed in dense feed lots without enough room to turn around.

I tried hunting twice and thought it was pretty lame to be honest. Shot some ducks and one deer.Its not my thing I guess. Its kinda weird when hunters brag about how skilled hunters they are when they use a high powered rifle and a high powered scope to kill something.

Now bow hunters, those guys are skilled.

 

[RedRussian]

rare would be an animal species that kills for fun. You don't see a tiger fucking up some people for a laugh. I can never understand the joy of shooting a squirrel with a .22.

I mostly agree with you, but cats are the only species of animal besides humans that kill things for fun. (on a regular basis.)

 

[RedRussian]

whoops. Ignore this one.

 

[MagicMouse]

Regulated hunting is fine.

It regulates the population of animals so that they don't starve.

It provides us with food, and entertainment.

We kill more humanly than animals do.

It is perfectly natural.

(And no one can tell me that animals don't kill for fun. Have you ever seen what happens when a fox gets in a bird pen? It's a slaughter, a wasteful slaughter for no reason other than the fox enjoyed it.)

 

[Nicarus]

I believe hunting is acceptable as a means of controlling population. If too many of any species exists, there will be conflict of resource rationing and a lot of the species would die out prematurely.

...and yes, I'm taking a biology course heavy on ecosystem studies. Kind of "required" as part of the curriculum.

 

[Denamic]

Hunting is a part of nature, so what's wrong with enjoying it?
It's really no different than fishing.
It'd be kinda douchey to waste the meat though.

I mostly agree with you, but cats are the only species of animal besides humans that kill things for fun. (on a regular basis.)

No they really aren't.
Wolves and even some dogs love chasing down animals and killing them.
I'm sure there's lots of other predators that enjoy their means of survival.