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In reply to the discussion: How many of the hunters hunt only for food?? [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)66. It is an old and valuable tradition. I am so glad my son-in-laws and grandchildren and grest
grandchildren are going to keep the tradition alive. We recognize our connection to all things living. Our dependence on all things.
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I don't eat meat, and I'm not talking about farm animals ( which is also wrong)
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#5
Are you a vegan? If not you are in the cycle when you eat milk, cheese, butter, eggs etc.
jwirr
Jul 2015
#21
Then you truly have stepped out of the cycle. I do not condemn that - in fact good for you. But it
jwirr
Jul 2015
#47
Any hunting I do anymore is limited to what I can do on my own property (birds)
tularetom
Jul 2015
#2
Things in nature kill each other. Except we are on the top of the food chain.
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#145
no offense, but that is bullshit argument, because that is NOT what happened, and NOT why people
still_one
Jul 2015
#70
But someone said if you eat what you hunt, etc. So all I am saying is you can
AllFieldsRequired
Jul 2015
#75
People do not eat big game animals. That is NOT a rationalization, that is fact. Your view that
still_one
Jul 2015
#123
How would you feel if a higher species would play catch and release with us?
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#39
It's a perfectly valid question and youa re being obtuse by refusing to answer.
HERVEPA
Jul 2015
#108
Have you ever checked the lake one day after a bass tournament? I guarantee you'll see dead
B Calm
Jul 2015
#54
Good for you! I use my needle nose and pinch the barb down. In Manitoba it's the law to fish
B Calm
Jul 2015
#60
I have a small farm pond stocked with trophy fish. It's strictly catch and release. If you are
B Calm
Jul 2015
#71
Pigeons (or rock dove) are legal during dove season in Texas, and are quite good.
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#248
There's a lot of space between the starving honest woodsman hunting to feed his family and
Brickbat
Jul 2015
#12
It is an old Native American tradition to kneel down after a kill and thank the creator AND the
jwirr
Jul 2015
#19
I know that but in NE MN we reintroduced the wolves. We hear them howling around out little farm
jwirr
Jul 2015
#25
Nature if you give it a chance is wonderful. In all the depressing mess we live in right now
jwirr
Jul 2015
#31
Well I can see the ranchers point because they have herds too large to put in the barn at night. We
jwirr
Jul 2015
#52
It is an old and valuable tradition. I am so glad my son-in-laws and grandchildren and grest
jwirr
Jul 2015
#66
We didn't have to go in the woods, had cows, pigs, bunnies, chickens, no trigger needed for chickens
snooper2
Jul 2015
#24
We do that also. Four of our families - about 31 people work together to provide food for ourselves
jwirr
Jul 2015
#42
Those who take pictures with their kill do it because they're proud of what they just did.
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#48
You don't assume "moral wrongness" in someone enjoying taking an animal's life???
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#95
"Typical for me"? So now you resort to personal attacks to try to make your point?/
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#166
How many workers in abattoirs hang body parts on their walls for decoration?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2015
#56
How many of those thousands of thousands do have pics and souvenirs from their hunting trips??
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#72
Are you a vegetarian? I ask because factory farming is far more inhumane than hunting.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#88
Yes. By hunting. Ever play hide & seek? Hunting is a lot more than the 'kill'.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#104
Yes I played hide and seek, but didn't kill innocent lives in the process.
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#109
But you keep ignoring the rest of what I said. Factory farming is FAR FAR more inhumane.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#116
Yes, I do. Because piggly wiggly will still grow, slaughter and sell farm meat regardless
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#120
Your "FYI" statement would be illegal and unethical and nothing any hunter I know would do.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#126
I get that 'it happens', but it's illegal and unethical to not 'finish them off'.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#137
So much more respectable to be totally hands-off and leave the dirty work to factory farms, right?
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#118
If hunters didn't hunt and eat the meat, the demand for factory farmed meat would be greater.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#124
You honestly believe that?? That hunters keep the meat farming industry in place???
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#127
I never said factory farms are good. What I said was hunting won't stop factory farms
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#168
Strange in a way, I enjoy much more the actual hooking & catching of fish than shooting a deer...
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#165
You can kill directly (hunting) or indirectly (agriculture). What's your choice?
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#141
Yup. Why anyone would literally prefer meat eaters consume factory farmed meat over hunting is
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#218
Look up what happens when hunters only injure and the animal suffers for weeks
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#152
Then you cant refute what majority of hunters do, which is killing for sport/fun
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#187
I'm well qualified to judge unnecessary killings and tortures just by having a heart.
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#191
So we should encourage people to consume more factory farmed meat as opposed to hunting?
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#196
taking pride in hunting and slaying game in no less ethical or more unnatural than taking pride in
arely staircase
Jul 2015
#216
When I was little, my father hunted a couple times a year and we ate what he shot.
AtomicKitten
Jul 2015
#247