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In reply to the discussion: Hunting - horrifying to see 12 year old girls and grown men slaughtering animals and feeling [View all]ileus
(15,396 posts)23. My 11yo son just laid out a pound of ground venison.
He was talking about not being able to wait for hunting season to start. I'd told him we needed to empty the freezer before he could harvest another deer.
I'm a lot like you I don't care for hunting much these days, but instead love fishing. We actually kept 4 fish three weeks ago, we've probably caught close to 1000 each so far this year. It's been a good year fishing wise.
I'd love to get my daughter in the field but she's not about to get up early and go sit in the cold and wet for a chance to get a deer.
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patsimp
Aug 2016
OP
I'm more horrified by eating factory farmed animals that are tortured their entire lives
mucifer
Aug 2016
#2
Hunters go into the habitant of their prey and murder animals who may be raising their children
patsimp
Aug 2016
#6
so elephants, Giraffes, leopards, rhinos, tigers, lions are being killed by the locals for their
patsimp
Aug 2016
#9
deer are alive. how someone can look at a beautiful deer and then pull a trigger to kill it is
patsimp
Aug 2016
#19
I've raised baby chicks, piglets and calves from birth to slaughter. They were alive at one point
NickB79
Aug 2016
#63
Sometimes they are killed for crop/livestock destruction. Can you believe that?
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#27
While yet other times animals are killed merely for the entertainment killing brings.
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#41
There are mixed reasons for hunting, adventure and "fun" among them. They are NOT disqualifiers.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#46
No doubt some have little interest in he meat, but there is little evidence of waste...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#54
I hear what you're saying but land development does far more damage to habitat than farming in our
Doremus
Aug 2016
#49
I appreciate your views as well, and tend to agree with you about livestock costs...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#56
I agree. Antler restrictions are rather sloppy, but it beats "any buck" hunting.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#61
Trying to take down a bear with bare hands is not a display of lack of cowardice...
beevul
Aug 2016
#35
Different experiences for different people. Such is life (and death) and how one relates to it all.
jmg257
Aug 2016
#39
murdering animals is not jusfiable. And i haven't seen proof of this just hunters
patsimp
Aug 2016
#57