Another Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
47. Author: SaVas Date: 01/10/2008 10:32 AM Reply
I don't hunt. I do fish, but I always release. Its my personal preference. I will let someone else catch it another day. I love the beauty of nature, and find that my day to day life is far too assiduous. When I get the chance to enjoy what is truely a gift - something like an old wood forest, I do so.
But, with that being said, I do not mind hunters at all. There is a need for them in this day and age, which really is brought on by human beings and their urban sprawl, taking over more and more wild areas, for their strip malls, neighborhoods, roadways, etc. Hunters do the land a great service if they follow the rules set before them.
Nature is in need of help. Because of our encroachment and sometimes, takeover of native habitats, a shrinkage of open wildlife lands with out a shrinkage of living numbers, only harms the animal more than we cause. Diseases run rampant, starvation is imminent, and obliteration of a species could even be probable - it has happened before. It even happens with humans, but thanks to modern medicines in non 3rd world countries, we can explode our population even more.
Even non-hunters or anti-hunters harm animals in many ways. Wish to get to someplace quicker...build an interstate. Rush-hour traffic gets longer and longer , more roads are built. More roads means easier access to lands that have low populations. Low populated areas mean advantage to urban spral...it can reach out further, open more neighborhoods farther out, build more Wal-marts and Targets, restaurants, and gas stations...more cars on the road, more pollution, more houses able to hold larger families of people that live longer and longer and longer, over populating the earth as it is, using up FINITE resources faster than mother nature can make them.
Don't hate the hunter who hunts for food. We should hate ourselves for we ALL have put a vice grip on the environment. Farms that don't rotate crops in essence depleting the earth of valuable nutrients, so the land becomes a virtual wasteland for years. Industries that pollute because they have government officials in their pockets. Housing developments that remove the old forests so we can build and have bigger and better houses, but also clog rivers and streams with run off.
Anti hunters, don't eat fish. Fish populations have also dwindled, because of over fishing and pollution of our oceans. If you eat fish, you are being hypocritical. Same if you eat beef, pork, or chicken. Think hunters are inhumane, try visiting a chicken farm, or chicken processing plant. It will make you swear off fowl for weeks if not years. But we eat it anyway, because something we find in a grocery store, in styrofoam boats, wrapped in saran wrap, has no life that we see.
Convenience comes at an exacting price.
Hunters, enjoy yourselves. Live for the thrill of what you take as something necessary, and enjoyable. You DO enjoy nature, as I enjoy venison jerkey, chili, and sausage. Hunting is a sport, but unfortunately in this dday and age, a necessary sport. Thanks to the hunters who help keep populations in check, I too can still enjoy what forests we have left, and enjoy seeing wild deer, turkeys, etc that live without issue except that of which humans have created.
While trophy kills of game and fish have dwindled, its not the hunters that have done that. Dont blame them. Its us.
Hunters, enjoy the hunt and may you find untainted fairly chemical free meat for your family's table
