I was disgusted many were not

Well this is something done as long as time itself. I'm sure long long ago, when people were both worshiped as a great provider and a great hunter, even trophy hunting was done. Not liked by all, but what will be will be. I must admit eating venison for the first time was remarkable. Ever since living in Europe we have grown fond of elk, deer and rarely, but occasionally boar. But as for the trophy aspect of it...no, not for me.
 
gruntlabor said:
Or maybe it's done as a memorial to the animal's beauty or done with respect so as not to waste anything. But I agree that the taking of life for no good reason is a shameful thing. Remember the buffalo slaughtered almost to extinction on the American plains. There will always be mean people.
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The painting the other lady is doing, taken from a photo, is commemorating her son's hunt. No one here knows the story that may be behind that photo & what it may mean to him or his family.

Out of the deer my husband has hunted, only two have been mounted. One was his first Mule deer & the second was the first White-tailed buck harvested on our farm. Nothing on either deer went to waste. And neither animal had been singled out & taken only for their trophies.

Don't confuse trophy hunters with real hunters. There isn't even a comparison between the two.
 
gruntlabor said:
Hysterically stated I thought.
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And why do you say that? You don't think photos of wildlife are important or beautiful or that they educate us on their lives? You don't think they are amazing tributes to the grace of the natural world? Are you saying that because you have an assortment of dead things in your house and you're offended by the truth that they're old skin and hair and sawdust and wood and lifeless glass eyes that see nothing?
 
Most all of us have no clue of the hell animals endure when what's going to the local Grocery and the picking up dinner means to the Death of our Prey.

Understand a hunter who is hungry and eats his prey . Celebrate his victory, the ability to survive another winter.


Sure the Wealthy $$$$$$$$$$ killer is out for the sport of the Kill, the Trophy on the Wall.

But survival would be much different for him during an apocalypse happening. We all know of those types
of guys, some of them very wealthy and famous........ Our history speaks of many Truths.
 
papa tiger said:
Most all of us have no clue of the hell animals endure when what's going to the local Grocery and the picking up dinner means to the Death of our Prey.

Understand a hunter who is hungry and eats his prey . Celebrate his victory, the ability to survive another winter.


Sure the Wealthy $$$$$$$$$$ killer is out for the sport of the Kill, the Trophy on the Wall.

But survival would be much different for him during an apocalypse happening. We all know of those types
of guys, some of them very wealthy and famous........ Our history speaks of many Truths.
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Some of us do have a very good understanding of how the meat got to the supermarkets of the world. And that's why we protest and refuse participation in that lifestyle. What makes us angry is that so few care about the suffering of other species. Suffering is suffering no matter who is forced to go through it.
 
Many here are surely Vegetarians and would do nothing to support the killing of animals for food! I accept that as perfectly logical.

Those that criticize hunters and do eat meats are hypocrites as they support the killing of animals for food.

Anything different would not be logical...
 
Debrah N. said:
It's done as a trophy to their manliness or their ability to shoot, etc. I once watched a video with a couple guys shooting at a grizzly on a ridge opposite them. That bear just shambling along, minding his own business and when they hit it, the sound of their cheers and hoots and catcalls as the poor dying animal bounced from boulder to boulder down that slope, was dreadful.

There was no respect, no awe at his majesty, just satisfaction at another creature killed. Also saw a video of a guy hunting coyotes and there was the same reaction, and then there's the horrible guy in Wisconsin, Cody Roberts, who ran down an 18 month old wolf, put a shock collar on her, dragged her into a bar where they tormented and tortured her with that shock collar for hours!

He and the neanderthals in that community thought that was just fine too! His aunt skinned the poor creature later and bragged about her fine nephew and supported his brutality. Trophy huntersšŸ˜ , heartless.
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This kind of hunting is not the deer hunting portrayed in the OP. I live in a deer hunting culture. Animals are hunted according to laws set year to year for herd management as detailed above and the yearly hunting parameters are strictly enforced by game wardens.

Hunters may go for a trophy buck but it's never just for the trophy; someone eats it. I have never heard of anyone killing a deer only for the trophy and wasting the venison...that's cultural taboo here. If a hunter has filled her freezer and kills more to meet the limits for conservation, the meat is gifted to friends or donated through a processing facility for charity.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Many here are surely Vegetarians and would do nothing to support the killing of animals for food! I accept that as perfectly logical.

Those that criticize hunters and do eat meats are hypocrites as they support the killing of animals for food.

Anything different would not be logical...
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I criticize the killing of animals for food.
I do not eat meat.
Therefore no-one should eat meat.
 
I don't quite understand how any person who clearly understands how animals die "naturally" (without any human intervention) . . . whether by starvation, disease, injury, or predation) . . . would object to responsible hunting. Few animals in the wild live out their potential lifespan and die of old age. Natural death on the wild generally isn't pretty and can be downright ghastly. :sick:
 
Hunting for food as it did the Red Indians, the Inuit or the Aborigines of Australia is okay with me. But I despise hunting only for trophies.
Dr. Theodor Heuss, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany, some 50 years ago said: "Hunting is a secondary form of human mental illness".
 
LoveTulips said:
Did the little one actually comprehend he was holding a dead bird? I would think it would have upset him.
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What he was upset about was having to stay in the back of the pickup when there was shooting going on. That was a safe place for himā€¦but not always appreciated. He spent most of his growing up on a small farm. Some of the animals who lived there were raised for foodā€¦either ourā€™s or someone else's. No one had several hundred sheep for pets. Cows are not generally kept as pets either. Some died. Small farm life.
 
AnnieA said:
This kind of hunting is not the deer hunting portrayed in the OP. I live in a deer hunting culture. Animals are hunted according to laws set year to year for herd management as detailed above and the yearly hunting parameters are strictly enforced by game wardens.

Hunters may go for a trophy buck but it's never just for the trophy; someone eats it. I have never heard of anyone killing a deer only for the trophy and wasting the venison...that's cultural taboo here. If a hunter has filled her freezer and kills more to meet the limits for conservation, the meat is gifted to friends or donated through a processing facility for charity.
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While I could never do it, I must say that killing for food is different than trophy killing. Trophy killing is wholly repugnant, imo. Killing for food? We've all got to eat.
 
AnnieA said:
This kind of hunting is not the deer hunting portrayed in the OP. I live in a deer hunting culture. Animals are hunted according to laws set year to year for herd management as detailed above and the yearly hunting parameters are strictly enforced by game wardens.

Hunters may go for a trophy buck but it's never just for the trophy; someone eats it. I have never heard of anyone killing a deer only for the trophy and wasting the venison...that's cultural taboo here. If a hunter has filled her freezer and kills more to meet the limits for conservation, the meat is gifted to friends or donated through a processing facility for charity.
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Growing up in Wisconsin I understand why hunting is regulated and needs to occur. Itā€™s much worse for deer to starve to death.

I couldnā€™t do it myself but itā€™s definitely necessary in some places. This is very different from trophy hunting. You are correct that the venison never goes to waste.
 

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