RE: Trophy Hunting Good?!
November 18, 2017 at 12:53 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2017 at 12:55 am by bennyboy.)
1st of all, let me say I've been a vegetarian for like 30 years, and i would never even consider hunting. i like neither death nor dying.
That being said, there's nothing much worse with trophy hunting than with meat farming. Animal suffer, animal gets killed. If you are arguing necessity-- hands up in this thread those who are severely underweight. No. . . maybe a few grams of meat here and there are good, for protein and b vitamins, but i can tell you that it's really not necessary to eat any meat at all to live a healthy and happy life. So right away, i'd say every non-vegetarian here is a hypocrite.
Now let's see how I'm a hypocrite, too. Most vegetable foods which are cheap enough for normal people to buy are mass produced. That means giant threshers and tilling machines, chemical sprays, and the painful suffering and death of who knows how many ground-nesting birds, moles, mice, rats, snakes, and other things that would prefer you just go kill a single moose and feed your family for about a year.
So basically, unless you are hand-growing food in your own shit, you are responsible for the suffering and death of a great many animals, and are probably 100% at peace with that. But if someone pulls out a rifle on the million-and-first animal, you are suddenly all about Bambi. That's a pretty ridiculous double-standard.
It does, of course, matter what you're hunting. if you're hunting the last Norwegian purple-plumed rhino or something, then shame on you-- you need to be put in jail. if you're hunting a deer in one of the many places that are literally plagued with deer and the health hazards that come with them. . . meh. i think a shot from a rifle is no worse than a bolt-gun to the head, and at least that animal lived out some of its natural life.
That being said, there's nothing much worse with trophy hunting than with meat farming. Animal suffer, animal gets killed. If you are arguing necessity-- hands up in this thread those who are severely underweight. No. . . maybe a few grams of meat here and there are good, for protein and b vitamins, but i can tell you that it's really not necessary to eat any meat at all to live a healthy and happy life. So right away, i'd say every non-vegetarian here is a hypocrite.
Now let's see how I'm a hypocrite, too. Most vegetable foods which are cheap enough for normal people to buy are mass produced. That means giant threshers and tilling machines, chemical sprays, and the painful suffering and death of who knows how many ground-nesting birds, moles, mice, rats, snakes, and other things that would prefer you just go kill a single moose and feed your family for about a year.
So basically, unless you are hand-growing food in your own shit, you are responsible for the suffering and death of a great many animals, and are probably 100% at peace with that. But if someone pulls out a rifle on the million-and-first animal, you are suddenly all about Bambi. That's a pretty ridiculous double-standard.
It does, of course, matter what you're hunting. if you're hunting the last Norwegian purple-plumed rhino or something, then shame on you-- you need to be put in jail. if you're hunting a deer in one of the many places that are literally plagued with deer and the health hazards that come with them. . . meh. i think a shot from a rifle is no worse than a bolt-gun to the head, and at least that animal lived out some of its natural life.
