Learn the Facts about Hunting

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[Sungirl]

Hunting

There once was a time when most Americans needed to hunt to put food on the table, but hunting today is a recreational pastime, and worse: waterfowl, pheasant, and dove hunting are no more than shooting at living targets. Some hunting is done solely to acquire trophies or to see who can kill the most; some is no more than shooting tame, confined animals. Brutally inhumane weapons such as the bow and arrow are increasingly used. In all cases, sport hunting inflicts undeniable cruelty—pain, trauma, wounding, and death—on living, sentient creatures. The Humane Society of the United States believes that causing suffering and death is by definition inhumane, regardless of method.

More than 100 million animals are reported killed by hunters each year. That number does not include the millions of animals for which kill figures are not maintained by state wildlife agencies.

The vast majority of species that are hunted—waterfowl, upland birds, mourning doves, squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, crows, coyotes, etc.—provide minimal sustenance and do not require population control.

Hunters have strived for decades to convince the American public that hunting is good for wildlife and good for society, often with arguments that are based on obfuscation and half-truths. They have deliberately focused the debate on deer hunting, for which plausible, but not necessarily true, arguments for subsistence and management can be made. But the holes in their arguments are becoming increasingly apparent, as is the magnitude of their waste, cruelty and destruction. More than that, sport hunting—the killing of wild animals as recreation—is fundamentally at odds with the values of a humane, just and caring society.

Copyright © 2002 The Humane Society of the United States. All rights reserved.

[Hugin]

Too much BS to answer now. HSUS is basically PETA in a suit.

[Woahhs]

There once was a time when most Americans needed to hunt to put food on the table, but hunting today is a recreational pastime, and worse: waterfowl, pheasant, and dove hunting are no more than shooting at living targets. Some hunting is done solely to acquire trophies or to see who can kill the most; some is no more than shooting tame, confined animals.

You presume much...but then...that's what always impressed me about you...self absorbtion.

[spqrzilla9]

The huge number of lies in this article would take hours to rebut. I know, as I spend literally hours rebutting this nonsense every month in the hunter education class I teach.

[tet68]

More sick progaganda ,it's what one expects from your type.

Perhaps the day will come(and perhaps soon) when your so convienient packaged food is not available to you and you will have to fish and hunt just to survive.

Til then, you can have my venison when you pry it from my cold dead jaws.

[Sungirl]

I saved this when I found it posted by another member...I like it:

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earthand over all the creatures that move along the ground."

RULE = KILL?? I looked RULE up in the dictionary and couldn't find the rule KILL FOR PLEASURE anywhere in the definition. Someone on another thread wrote this and I think it would do you some good to read it:

Someone elses response:

Let's have a Bible lesson shall we? God emphatically states that he never wanted animal sacrifices. That was in The Law of the first covenant that the people asked for themselves and then found that the Law did not work and was impossible to keep. God wants a humble and contrite spirit, a broken-heart,repentance for sins in the MIND as sacrifice. That is what Jesus taught--regeneration of the human heart, not dead goats. Jesus was the perfect sin-sacrifice, abolishing animal killings in the temple, and dying to cover the sins of all who believe in Him.

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Mark17:

would you break the law to save this dog?

A dog, no. A human being, yes.

THanks...you also prove the compassion of a hunter. What if this dog were a seeing eye dog of a priest? Would you break the law? LOL!!

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To: Gianni:

Look...SCOPES!

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Cougars to Be Killed as Part of "Studies"
This is real nice too....

[spqrzilla9]

I can't resist just one example of the lies the HSUS writes above:

The vast majority of species that are hunted—waterfowl, upland birds, mourning doves, squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, crows, coyotes, etc.—provide minimal sustenance and do not require population control.

See this link describing the need for an extra season to control the destruction overpopulation of snow geese.

The HSUS is a fraudulent organization that has been capitalizing on the good will people have for local humane societies to present its rabid, anti-human, radical agenda.

[Dan from Michigan]

Give me about 5 hours and I can put out a 15 page paper ripping this thing apart.

I'll just say this. People have been meat eaters for thousands of years. It is part of nature. Those against hunting becuase food can be 'at the stores' are hypocrites.

If you don't like hunting, don't hunt. I'm a hunter. I didn't get anything last year. I don't care. I saw two bears, an eagle, several pilelated woodpeckers, deer, and other animals. I enjoyed the time hunting with family as well. And I'll be back this year as well. :)

[aomagrat]

[Dan from Michigan]

And BTW - I've personally seen some of the letters and death threats the animal rights crowd sent state rep Sue Tabor. Real peaceful people.....

[Woahhs]

I looked RULE up in the dictionary and couldn't find the rule KILL FOR PLEASURE anywhere in the definition.

You should try looking up solipsism...it would do you much more good.

[Sungirl]

Doris Day and Bob Barker are big animal supporters. SOmehow I can't see Doris and Bob sending out death threats.

[DallasMike]

...the industry that promotes and sustains hunting has just one motive: profit.

I'm no hunter and see no real attraction in the endeavor, but the motive of every industry is profit. I'm presuming that the rest of the artcle is as bad as this sentence.

[spqrzilla9]

Then you don't know your cohorts for the PETA ilk are a violent bunch. PETA has been caught funding terrorism.

For the rest, here are some links to the strange bedfellows that HSUS and PETA keep:

ActivistCash website

ConsumerFreedom website

These people have done a lot of research on the links between these dangerous radicals.

[junta]

Part of me tells me to be extremely rude to you right now, but I shall think of you as a misguided child and be considerate of you. I hunt, therefore I am nature.(BTW I am a pagan) To make a kill of an animal in a well mangaged game area is to feel both triumph and tragedy of life not the stale lifelessness of socialism as so prevelant amongst you "moralists." Also in the past year I have taken an Elk, Whitetail Deer and an Antlope and I am using all of them to the fullest degree for food and clothing.

[tet68]

It's all about the profit that HSUS and others can get from gullable folks like SG.

[Osinski]

Sungirl: Trolling for flames.

"Learn the Facts about Hunting" ?

You wouldn't know facts if they bit you on the rear end. Must be another stay-at-home do-nothing night.

[timm22]

the industry that promotes and sustains hunting has just one motive: profit.

The horror! You mean that there's an INDUSTRY that is solely motivated by profit! Unthinkable!

What's next? People going to work not because they enjoy the office lifestyle, but because they want - I struggle to even say it- to get a paycheck?

[Woahhs]

I'm no hunter and see no real attraction in the endeavor, but the motive of every industry is profit. I'm presuming that the rest of the artcle is as bad as this sentence.

Yeah...like the ripples of self-congratulation felt by the animal rights crowd are somehow superior to profits because it can't be quanitified.

[Osinski]

Just had antelope for my first time this year. Fantastic meat.