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.
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You presume much...but then...that's what always impressed me about you...self absorbtion.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
"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.
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?
Which bring us to this "Facts" about Hunting
Isn't abortion a good way to save a woman's life in a problem pregnancy?
Isn't better to abort a baby than bring another mouth to feed into this over-populated world?
Since a fetus is simply a blob of tissue until it is delivered through the 9 inch birth canal and majically transforms into a baby, abortion really does not take a human life. Right?
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Toyota Corolla- one deer in Steamboat Springs, CO
Chevy Nova- One deer- Sudbury, ONT
Honda Accord- One Deer, Kalamazoo, MI
Shovel: two black rat snakes
Hunting rifle: zero