I would rather eat meat that I or someone I know has hunted than buy meat from a store. All these people saying that hunting is cruel, where the hell do you think you got your hamburger? Or your pork? Or your chicken? Or your storebought turkey? Those animals have been raised and fattened up in tiny little stalls or boxes just so they can have their throats slit and be slaughtered, sometimes still alive, in a meat factory.
Deer, wild turkey, quail, pheasant, duck…all of those wild animals that are harvested each year live a life in the wild, free. And when one is taken with a gun or a bow, their death is relatively quick. Despite popular belief, hunters don’t hunt to watch animals suffer. We hunt because it’s an instinct, or a passion, borne of thousands of years of our need to hunt in order to survive, and we’d rather eat something we’ve killed ourselves, know it has died an honorable death, than something that’s had no chance to live whatsoever. We shoot with as deadly accurate of a shot as we can pull off, not only because we don’t feel like tracking the animal horribly far, but because we DON’T want to see it suffer in front of us. And if you think about it, human hunters are a lot more merciful than our fellow predators. Watch a bear or a mountain lion, or a pack of wolves bring down an animal. They start eating it before the animal is even dead. Tell me hunting isn’t natural.
I do agree that trophy hunting is ridiculous. Hunting to boost your ego isn’t what hunting should be. Seriously, if you’re not going to eat it, why kill it?

7 Responses to “Aside from vegetarianism (which I understand), why would you be against hunting?”

1. Marvin the Martian on May 14th, 2009 2:37 am

   The principles you stated there are also why I’m against emotional vegetarianism (the common Ohh….the animals will suffer :’( )

2. xxxxXALixxxx on May 17th, 2009 12:42 pm

   I like meat, have you ever seem man vs. wild? He hunts and teach you how to survive in situations, in the wild, that includes killing animals. I watched him kill and eat meat (raw meat ) right straight from the animal. It is natural and that is the way people have been eating. It wont never stop, if peta had a chance between saving an animal or saving a baby human, they would choose the animal.

3. A D on May 18th, 2009 1:29 am

   Because people think they know what they’re talking about when they hear some media thrived propaganda and go on a rant about how evil everyone is… That’s all.

4. shut u on May 18th, 2009 8:33 am

   i hate trophy hunting; bunch of cowards.

5. SiLlY fArT on May 20th, 2009 4:20 pm

   hunting for food is fine but many people are against the type of hunting that is a sport e.g fox-hunting that toffs engage in

6. Pagan Princess on May 20th, 2009 7:36 pm

   OMFG!!!!!!! I am SO with you!
   This could get long winded, but I have been on both sides of that fence.
   When I was younger (about 13) I didn’t talk to my dad for 2 weeks because not only did he shoot one deer, but TWO! My thoughts then were all animals are cute and furry and lovable and undeserving of being hunted down. Hunter’s say it’s a sport to hunt. It is not. Sports require physical conditioning, exertion, etc. Hunting requires hiding in a tree with a big gun in front of a pile of food. There is no sport in that. That’s like perching on a roof outside of McDonalds and pecking off the biggest person who wonders out. That’s murder.

   Yes I was, and am again, a vegetarian.

   So, since then I have grown up. I have seen a few pictures and half of a video (couldn’t watch all of it, I got sick) on
   Chickens confined in crates, force fed through tubes, never seeing sunlight, pigs being beaten to death with steel rods, throats being sliced just enough for them to bleed to death and drown in their own blood. Then there is the fact that they are bred for the sole purpose of becoming my dinner. How would you like it if you knew the only reason you are alive right now is so someone else can have you for lunch? And that today might be your last day to live because tomorrow you might be dinner? (Yes I know the cows don’t KNOW this, I’m just saying…)

   I call myself a vegetarian. I don’t even eat eggs. However, I will eat the venison from the deer my son shot. It lived it’s life free. It was not confined to a crate. It was not force fed antibiotics. It has run and played and jumped and mated and (probably) eaten the veggies in my garden.

7. Father Creepy on May 23rd, 2009 9:17 pm

   I support hunting, anything that makes us less reliant on the corporations that enslave us is a good thing. The capitalist system has made us slaves to it by being dependant upon the system.

   Also factory farms are rather unnatural, filling our food with hormones, polluting our world, and driving smaller family farms under.

   –But you can always live under the illusion you are free, with someone else controlling your food source.

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