You’re talking out both ends. How’s that for spin?
Don’t see one “much like” the other. Raising and harvesting cattle for human consumption is different than stalking and killing an apex predator in the wild, primarily for human gratification alone. Still have no problem with Bo’s trophy or any legal hunting and fishing, as most of it has folks like yourself enjoying the great outdoors. But ever since working a teen summer in Yellowstone, I’ve had an odd affinity for seeing more grizzlies in the wild. Wife teases it’s a sickness I ain’t seeking no cure for. She’s wicked smart on that point.
How so? I'm not saying you have to enjoy hunting. I do. I was essentially raised in the woods by my grandfather. I learned a lot about life out there and I still hunt as much as possible. To each their own.
Any Michigan game officiated by Head Referine Dave Witvoet.What is the “most dangerous game”?
+1 Haven't hunted a day in my life, but can't possibly roll my eyes far back enough to some of the posts in this thread.
If you follow the sequence here my comment makes sense. You’re saying it’s preferable to kill an animal quickly rather than have it die at a later time. Saying that’s reality is just one of those argument-ending attempts that people try. It’s simply not as black and white as that. Why wouldn’t (doesn’t) it apply to humans?
We're going to run into the issue of "it makes sense to me" being represented as "it makes sense". I'm not saying it's preferable, I am saying it's certainly a less painful and quicker death for an animal than how the vast majority will die in the wild. Take from that what you will.
Again, conservation of what from what?
One part crop damage permits, one part automotive collision, and one part subsistence.
You're never going to trust me on this and that is fine. Do some research on it yourself. The passenger pigeon extinction was actually a driving force for a lot of this. I'm glad you brought that up.
I can read the propaganda. Mom taught me to consider the source.
And yet wolves coexisted with the rest of the wildlife for millennia before people got involved. Read about how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone reinvigorated the riverbed by decreasing elk, allowing vegetation to recover and allowing smaller species to thrive. Wolves helping to control large species is exactly their purpose as predators
I was in Yellowstone last year. I thought... if they would allow a number of tags for Elk, then hunters could kill and eat the Elk instead of the wolves.
Heard a story where a wounded seal was being nursed back to health by a group of animal conservation people. The day it was being released, from a boat out in the ocean, there were tv cameras and a big celebration ensued. The seal was swimming away to much applause and a Killer whale ended the show pronto. I wonder if the seal would have preferred a bullet?
Decimate? Sounds like hyperbole.
Agree....but that's also why I don't shed a tear when the tables are turned and the hunter gets killed (like that rich winery owner that got stampeded and trampled by elephants recently).
Are there more deer in America now or 150 years ago. I was always told now?
Yes, but were you also told
This topic should be in the new "Off topic" thread!!
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