Is it ok to hunt, trap or kill animals you have no intention of eating?
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That depends.  If the species is getting over populated in your area, or is a menace to farmers crops, then it can be justified.  Perhaps you can find some migrant workers willing to accept the meat of your harvest.\n\nThe government set up a local shoot because of population, then condemed the meat for human consumption.  4,000 pounds of meat trashed.  That is the problem, not the hunters.
92205
Yes.  Paranoid and uneducated people have killed most of the predators and created this problem to begin with, now its our duty to control it.  I don't like the trophy hunter method as it eliminates the strong and allows the weak to breed, ultimately reducing the quality of the rest, but we do need to keep the population in check.  People need to hunt legally with permits and should use as much of the animal as they can.
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So are most hunters.  The thing is there are animals that are dangerous to those I do care about (we have had mountain lion and coyote) so I have no problem with killing them.\n\nI hunt deer for meat.\n\nThe only way to know is to actually do it
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There are those who are opposed to hunting wildlife.  If I didn’t grow up in a quasi subsistence lifestyle, I might have felt different.  It is easy to see how hunting can be cruel.\n\nFor instance, if you walk into a restaurant and shoot a person at the salad bar, it is murder.  If you walk into a hay field and shoot a deer, it is dinner.  I have seen deer with arrowheads lodged inside and animals with injuries because of bad shots.  That is the dark side of hunting, the animal suffering that is thought of as a price the animal must pay.\n\nSo why hunt?\n\nSmall game animals have a sufficient number of predators to keep their numbers in check.  Even if there wasn’t, an overpopulation of squirrels and rabbits might be an annoyance, but not a real threat to humans and their health.  The habitat can usually support many more animals than current populations.\n\nAs animals get bigger, the number of predators get fewer.  Not many things that I have seen bother raccoons or geese.  Some animals will attack and kill these larger animals, but small animals tend to be an easier kill for a predator.  While overpopulation of these animals can cause a concern for humans.  Again, the habitat can usually support many more animals than current populations.\n\nAs you move to larger animals like deer, coyotes, and similar animals, there are few if any natural predators still around.  If the population is let go, the animals become a threat to humans either through predatory instincts or just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time (ie. Car deer accidents).  As the animals are large, they require greater amounts of food.  A large deer population can be devastating to a farmer’s crop, not to mention spread disease to livestock intended for human consumption (like bovine tuberculosis).\n\nEven small animals can be devastating to crops.  The dove population in Argentina is so large that a flock can eat thousands of tons of grain in a day.  Fields can be wiped out in under a day by the larger flocks.  \n\nHunting helps restore the balance that humans have destroyed.  As predators are gone, humans have become the predators.  Without the predators, animals like deer will consume all the food available in their habitat and either starve to death or die of diseases like CWD, bovine tuberculosis, or others  (neither sounds like a good way to die to me)\n\nSo what good is hunting?\n\n1.Keeps populations of certain game under control.  In some states, if hunting were eliminated for a year or two, the current deer populations would be well beyond the carrying capacity of the land.  Granted, many animals are not in the same predicament as the deer, but are getting to be.\n\n2.It provides an activity that allows families to spend time together and pass down traditions.  Yes, there are other things families can do, but hunting happens to be an activity built on tradition.\n\n3.It provides a heck of a lot of money into economies that otherwise wouldn’t have tourism.  I hunt deer in Tomah, WI.  Any other time of the year, there is nothing going on in the town.  However, when the gun deer season comes around, all of the hotels are full, the restaurants have waiting lists, the gas pumps are flowing, and local stores are selling things that the hunters need or forgot.\n\n4.Provides an overall boost to the economy.  Hunting is expensive (very expensive if you think about it).  Gun deer hunting requires a rifle, which a cheap one will run $500.  The rifle needs a scope which is another $250.  The scope needs rings which is $30.  A box of ammo will set a hunter back $20.  The hunter needs to sight in their rifle every year at $15 a visit.  Boots wear out at $100 a pair.  A GPS is needed after getting lost in the woods last year for about $150.  The kids stole my compass, making me part with another $10.  I can’t see over the brush anymore, so I need a deer stand at $160.  This goes on and on for any hunter (at least deer hunters…).  This money tends
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I live in Alaska, where hunting and trapping are part of everyday life. I don't personally do either, but most people I know at least hunt, and many of my friends trap. (Say what you will about fur - it's a renewable resource and it's WARM) \n\nMost animal rights groups are extremists, boarding on terrorists. I know from personal experience - my brother is a hunting guide and a trapper and has spent YEARS under various types of attack from these idiots. One group went so far as to post his home phone number on their web site with the message, "feel free to call him and tell him what you think." My nephew couldn't answer the phone at home for months after that. The same group also admitted, in the same post that gave his phone number out, that they have a history of harassing my brother. They have a biostitute (a biologist who sells his "knowledge" to the highest bidder) who flew over my brother's house so low that my nephew was afraid to go out in his own yard. They admitted THAT on their web site, too. \n\nAnti-whaling groups freak out when our Natives hunt whales - tradition in coastal Alaska. It's not like the people who live in a small village that's not on the road system can just pop up to 7-11 or Safeway if they need to eat. \n\nIf someone ever throws paint on my beautiful coat, they'd better hope to God that I don't see them when I'm driving.\n\nWhy aren't they going after poachers? Or the jerks who shoot an animal just "for fun"? How about the puppy mills? Or the (@&! who abuse their pets? There are plenty of illegal activites out there they  could focus on, but they prefer to ignore that. I don't get it.\n\n"Fur is more violently opposed than leather because it's easier to pick on rich women than motorcycle gangs." - bumper sticker
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It depends on whether or not you killed them.  If you did, then yes.  If you found them and decided to cook them, then eat them, then no.
908201
Sorry...fairy hunting season is closed.  If you get caught, you could go to jail and lose your fairy hunting privileges.  I know they taste good if you field dress them right away, but everyone knows that poached fairy tastes bad.
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Manik...we have those here in the Yukon...Both private and Govy, with controle and non controle of the animals.....The controled ones are in a fenced off area, where they can study and breed the species they are working with. Usually to eradicate certain inherant deseases that are killing off those in the wild...they are in a natural setting and well looked after.....Limited public veiwing is usually the case...for obvious reasons...\n\nThe uncontroled ones are open ranges, usually appendixed to a national park, where none or limited hunting is alowed...\n\nHope this helps... :)...Yukoneze
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Hunting is NOT bad. Particularly deer hunting in my opinion. I grew up in an area where auto accidents caused by deer were extremely common - the deer were just EVERYWHERE. There are no more natural predetors around to cull the deer population, so hunting really helps to keep the population from getting TOTALLY out of control. Plus, there were several programs in the area that took donations of deer hunters killed, butchered them properly, and then donated the meat to homeless shelters and other causes.
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Providing your hunted quarry (pheasants, partridge,grouse etc are in season and you have permision from the land owner other wise you are poaching then yes its legal. One pointer i must make to you is if you intend to hunt such quarry with a hawk then you should puchase a game licence from your local main postoffice for the price of £6. To kill game in england and wales without one of thease is illegal. \nHappy hunting
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Animals definitely. Man is a social animal but is not doin anything humane... killing all life form from this earth for his own gain... even killing himself through wars etc. A kind of animal never kills its own race.. eg a dear never kills a dear. This is although not valid to carnivores, who have a rather very beastly lifestyle. Mostly animals live in harmony. The best way to answer wud be to tell u that even a lion/a tiger never hunts when hes not hungry. man (hunts) when hes hungry but he is never contended... so keeps on hunting.
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Honey, you nailed it. There is nothing wrong with it.  I personally think hunters have gotton a bad rep because of the booze hound idiots that tie the dead deer to the hood of the car like a buick ornament. Which i believe to be very disrespectful to such a beautiful creature.  My sweetie hunts every weekend, and because of that I havnt bought ground beef in over 3 years.  He doesnt go "killin" for sport.  He does it for the meat. You are right. The population, unchecked would be devastating for the environment.  People that are too damn sensitive, think its "cruel" and "mean".  But these are the same people that enjoy a good veal steak without a second thought as to the misery they put that animal through and the hormones and antibiotics they are consuming. They probably wear fur coats too, and i wont get into how barbaric a practice that is.  Not to mention, hunting is a wonderful recreation. It teaches patience, respect, safety, and a general appreciation for nature to young folks.  SO no, there is nothing wrong with hunting.  And dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Man.\n\nKills without motive, without provocation, for sport, sometimes just out of boredom and ennui.\n\nCan be exceptionally cruel to it's own kind as well as other species, slaughters entire species into extinction for reasons other than food or survival.\n\nWill selfishly pollute and ruin the environment for personal profit, without even a thought to the consequences to its own offspring.\n\nI can't think of a nastier animal than we humans.  \n\nBest to you.
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Wildlife management is dependant on hunting. Not only for the financial resource (Pittman/Roberston Act) but as a contributing factor in maintaining healthy populations for a particular habitat. Take the emotions out of the question and the result is a scientific quota passed on to a growing number of ethical sportsmen who hold respect for the resource, firearm, law, landowners, themselves and the future of hunting.\n\nIt is my hope that anyone reading this will take the time to talk to a biologist and discover for themselves how hunting laws and ethical practices have helped game populations in the last 100 years. The activity may not appeal to you but it is beneficial and deserves to be understood.
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I could go off on a tangent but the short answer is if you can't feed them don't breed them.
686759
no i think if your are a real hunter then hunt somethin like a bear hunt something that could be hunting you then the playing field is leveled
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Worms don't really have much in the way of a brain or nervous system, so I doubt they mind.  As far as other animals, I used to be against it but I've become rather desensitized to it... Many more animals are killed to become food or fur, or killed for sport... I have to deal with killing mice on a regular basis to feed snakes... They are low on the food chain for a reason.  A few humanely euthanized rats here and there for students to learn is a small price to pay.  As a bio student, there really is no replacement for learning first hand on the real thing.  My favorite dissection was a fetal pig in high school... Very interesting.  The only time I took offense was a mink dissection, and that is because the school was actually getting the minks from fur farms and paying for them, so our experiments were fueling the fur trade...