i'm not gonna add a poll or anything, and my own opinions are pretty convoluted, so i don't really want to go getting into them just yet - maybe if i get something to work with. but i am just interested as to what people on here think of it.
Also if you can afford ammunition then you can afford occasionally buying organic meat from your local grocery. That's part of the reason I don't like hunting for food unless you have to as well
I'm not saying don't hunt deer--if legal, then it's legal and a choice people make, regardless of how I feel about hunting. I'm just explaining how if we didn't hunt deer we'd still be okay
Also, the predators of deer that are not humans do not hunt humans. There is no animal on this planet whose natural food source is humans.
we dont want the predators to repopulate there's a reason we killed them off in the first place. it's easier to just hunt them ourselves, especially since it's something people enjoy. humans began as hunter gatherers. and even so, while the cycle resets itself, we'd be overrun with deer, and they'd be starving to death. who wants to deal with that.
It doesn't matter, because if there is more food for the remaining predators then they will repopulate and eventually the deer population falters while the predator population rises. Then eventually, there won't be enough food for the predators and the deer population will rise as the predator population falters, and it goes back and forth and sustains itself--even if more animals are involved as well. Humans usually screw this kind of thing up but it takes basically humans making these animals endangered or extinct for that to happen
Most food chains are able to sustain themselves and if they can't then one or more of the species involved in it are endangered or extinct already
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I'm not familiar with many people who feel good about the former.
Canada has fixed it's once inhumane slaughtering laws and I as a patriotic Canadian am proud of that, it was one of the few remaining things I disliked about my country
Yeah I never said thats 100% the reason why we should be killing more. We shouldn't be killing more. Less people that hunt = more I can hunt. I just hate it when people have to go out full 100% against everything when the bigger picture doesn't end well.
if you're ok with the systematic slaughtering of animals for consumption then i'm not sure why you'd have a problem with hunting. people do it for fun but i think it's pretty rare that the animal isn't used for food, and under legal guidelines its more sustainable so hey.
1. Hunting is legal 2. I didn't say don't hunt deers, I just said your reason as to why we should be killing more deer is bad 3. The more deer there are the less food will he available to them + the more food will be available to their predator so then it balances itself out
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How much time do you spend hunting if you're determined not to contaminate yourself with the icky mass produced meat?
but that's the problem, we got rid of a lot of predators, so we messed up the natural cycle, so it doesnt support itself.
and how is eating factory killed animals any different from eating personally shot animals. if anything, it's more humane to shoot your own food, because that animal got to enjoy its life instead of being born in captivity and killed shortly thereafter.
