: It is true that people don't need to hunt anymore for food however if you havent tried game meat you don't know how good it is. Each year we kill thousands of turkeys for thanksgiving. I'm sure you probably have eatin a turkey for thanksgiving. Now is there a difference between you foing to the store to buy a turkey and me going out hunting for turkeys. I just take out the middle man. If you eat meat then how can you say anything bad about hunting. We just take it into our own hands to get meat.As a vegan, I don't condone the eating of factory farmed meat either. In fact, I consider the fate of animals in factory farms far worse than the fate of animals hunted in the woods, though ultimately all their deaths are unnecessary.
: Plus hunting keeps population under control. Without hunters there would be to many game animals and they would eat all plant life leading to the extinction of animals.
Hunters very conveniently killed off all the predators, thus creating the argument that they must replace those predators. While overpopulation is a real problem, we could address it several ways: stop managing fauna and flora to promote the numbers of "game" species, thereby ensuring the overpopulation used to justify killing them; distribute birth control in foodstuffs; reintroduce natural predators, which will take the weak and sickly, unlike hunters, who kill the healthiest (you call that conservation?); feed the overpopulated animals until birth control and predation by non-human predators brings their numbers down. As for un-hunted animals eating all the plants and going extinct, that's simply ridiculous.
:Hunters were also the first consevationists. Without hunters there would be practically no wetlands for ducks and geese to live on.
I help run programs designed to conserve wetlands, and I don't work for hunters. We can easily protect wetlands without hunting.
:Almost all of the wetlands in the United States are privately owned by hunters without us there would be no wetlands left.
Don't know if your first assertion regareding wetland ownership is true or not, but wetlands protection laws would achieve the same result.
: And for family bonds, which is better: taking your son hunting and teaching him respect for animals and gun control or taking him to a football game where he can learn how to hit someone really hard?
Here son, respect that beautiful animal. Now blow its brains out. Give me a break.
