Originally Posted by akrogirl
Originally Posted by lab fairy
Originally Posted by DebsShelties
Originally Posted by OmaForFour
Are you a vegetarian?
Originally Posted by DebsShelties
I dislike hunting all the way around, and I wonder what did that POOR animal ever do to deserve getting shot, left in pain till they were killed/killed outright. Which was here first? The animals were, we as humans ran off the natural preditors and now have an over population of certain animals.
Just so we humans could build houses in woods etc.
Sad really.
I do not eat Red meat or wild meat. I still have the right to think how I do, eating meat has no meaning in this. Deer are GOD's creatures, killing them kills a beautiful animal for no good reason.
It is sport hunting, even though some use the meat from the kill.
I disagree with hunting and I have the right to disagree.
I wonder how many of the hunters others would feel if the killed animal got dressed on their dining room table on good tablecloths, with the hunter saying oh you can just wash out the blood.
Or have an animal still alive and placed on your kitchen counter, back is broken and legs are still moving with the animal in severe pain?
Again with the hunter saying oh it's ok wanted to see what you thought of my kill. Then proceeded to start skinning the animal.
WOW, there are issues here that have nothing to do with hunting. It sounds more like issues with the person YOU KNOW. No one I know who hunts anything would ever disrespect an animal the way you described. There is no reason. All hunters I know hunt the legal limit, use the meat, and could care less about trophies. No one would dress an animal indoors (and never disrespect their wife that much if she objected). My husband grew up on a working farm and they raised their own meat. I am guessing that is bad too?
We all have life experiences that color our view of the way the world should work. If you are that passionate I can send you some very good vegan and vegetarian recipes.
Unfortunately, many of the hunters I know do disrespect the animals and laugh about killing them. I have worked with several who also bragged about shooting cats and birds in their back yards - illegal to do where I live for obvious reasons. I have even had some tell me that they didn't like the meat of the animals they had killed, usually the javelinas, and that they didn't eat it!
We have also had major problems in my area with dove hunters shooting in inhabited areas around the barn where I ride. It used to be a regular occurrence to find them shooting across the road to the barn before the housing development was built, with no regard for the traffic coming along. Again, illegal here, but that never bothered them. By shooting across that particular road, they were also shooting into reservation land - another major no-no in more ways than one.
Maybe hunters in other areas respect the laws and the animals concerned more than the ones I have encountered. However, I know many horse owners in other parts of the country who have run into similar issues with local hunters and who fear for their horses' lives every hunting season.
These are NOT hunters they are poachers & there is a difference!!!