Reply #9: We eliminated their predators....

[TygrBright]

...with stringent hunting rules and driving out/killing wolves, bear, etc.

Nature can be redder in tooth and claw by FAR than human agency in some cases.

Deer are seriously overpopulated in most parts of the country, and many areas haven't examined their hunting rules/laws for decades. Regulations should be focused on safety, and limits lifted to allow a greater cull of the population. Unrestricted buck hunting would be a nice start. Thin the buck population and the breeding goes way down.

Whatever you may think of human bloodlust and the ickiness of walls decorated with bits of dead animals (that school of decor grosses me out although I've no objection to hunting otherwise,) it ain't NEARLY as cruel as what nature does when a population becomes too large for a habitat to support. It's not even as cruel as the normal predation cycle. Bears don't often go after adult deer (unless the deer is injured, slow, sick, etc.) But if not focused on scavenging human food, many of the larger bear species will go after fawns. Yogi vs. Bambi.

All life lives at the expense of other life. Humane methods of hunting, fishing, and farming and slaughtering domestic animals is normal, not cruel. Cruelty is mass farming, mass fishing, 'efficient' slaughter, etc. IOW, the stuff that makes food both poor quality and cheap.

We have lost all respect for our food.

sadly,
Bright