Trophy Hunting Good?!

[Minimalist]

These assholes aren't hunting to live.  They are hunting to kill.

Makes them feel important.

[Amarok]

No their is a difference between killing to eat. And killing because you want to lop off a paw . Not to mention their is a difference between hunting and raising animals . And their is a difference between minimizing and maximizing animal suffering . Anything else is a Nirvana fallacy .

Vegetarianism is morally bankrupt

[Minimalist]

I like bacon.  Anything to annoy the muslims.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The argument usually given in favour of trophy hunting is that it helps to conserve the hunted species because it is in danger due to habitat loss or some such, and that it is more merciful for the animal to die via a bullet than to die of hunger, thirst or disease. What the pro-trophy hunting idiots never seem to point out is that humans are responsible for the habitat loss in the first place.  The would be the equivalent of me setting a fire in your house and then cutting your throat to keep you from burning to death.

You know who else keeps trophies of their victims?  Serial killers.

Boru

[brewer]

In light of declining numbers this makes little sense.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Never hunted anything that couldn't hunt me back. (Vermin control excepted.)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Never hunted anything that couldn't hunt me back. (Vermin control excepted.)

Yeah, THAT levels the playing field.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Never hunted anything that couldn't hunt me back. (Vermin control excepted.)

Yeah, THAT levels the playing field.

Boru

What's the fun in hunting something that doesn't even know you're after it?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't see the 'fun' in hunting something, full stop.

Boru

[vorlon13]

Amazing to me, really looks like most of the deer hunted around here, at least, are eaten. Local locker plant is busy dressing out carcasses and processing cuts and making sausage of the remainder bits. And since there is a dearth of edible nummies in the head region, the heads can be preserved and made into 'trophies'.

I've also noted on the busier highways around here, freshly ran over deer, if not terribly mangled, disappear rapidly. Many are apparently snagged by folks wanting to eat 'em. If you drive past a certain point on the road, don't see a deer fatality, come back in an hour and there's a deer there, it's still 'viable' for eating. (if gutted immediately)

Also, the coyotes, hawks and other scavengers rapidly process the road kill too.

Heard a rumor yesterday there was an elk sighted north of me. I'm waiting for confirmation. Elk is pretty rare for this area.