RE: Raw Nature
March 28, 2012 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2012 at 9:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Animals are sport-killers as well (ignoring the fact that we are animals in the first place). I've never understood the distaste people have for other people hunting. It isn't exactly a talent we developed for sport, and to you it may seem pointless but the time we've been able to exist without hunting is a small drop of our overall experience here. Let's take a moment to wonder what a lion would do with all of it's free time if it were in our shoes. I'm willing to wager that any predator would continue to be a predator even when the immediate need for this aspect of itself had been reduced.
If you like wildlife, and you live in the US, but have something against hunting and hunters, you need to brush up on the Pittmann-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Acts. Hunters and fishermen are the largest and most reliable financial contributors to wildlife conservation in the U.S. (and have been since 1937). You see, money spent on hunting goes to the animals involved, money spent on documentaries and tours (because they're just so goddamned cute) does not.
Hunters want nice big forests to house nice big healthy populations of trophy animals. Hunters want effective game management so that they can enjoy their sport, and effective game management includes predation. Hunters spend an absurd amount of money on optics so they can watch these animals (this money, that other people who do not hunt also spend, to animal watch, is not covered under these acts strangely). They're just as fond of deer as the guy who wants to keep deer from being hunted. Hard-line conservationists would be fast friends with hunters if they were interested in more than a kneejerk "save the cuddlies" platform.
If you like wildlife, and you live in the US, but have something against hunting and hunters, you need to brush up on the Pittmann-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Acts. Hunters and fishermen are the largest and most reliable financial contributors to wildlife conservation in the U.S. (and have been since 1937). You see, money spent on hunting goes to the animals involved, money spent on documentaries and tours (because they're just so goddamned cute) does not.
Hunters want nice big forests to house nice big healthy populations of trophy animals. Hunters want effective game management so that they can enjoy their sport, and effective game management includes predation. Hunters spend an absurd amount of money on optics so they can watch these animals (this money, that other people who do not hunt also spend, to animal watch, is not covered under these acts strangely). They're just as fond of deer as the guy who wants to keep deer from being hunted. Hard-line conservationists would be fast friends with hunters if they were interested in more than a kneejerk "save the cuddlies" platform.
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