Anti-hunting: It's never ethical

Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals, says animals hunted on ranches have no chance to escape the hunter. Feral says all hunting is "degrading and violent."

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• texas
• antelope
• exotic
• wildlife
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[haileyfarmer13]

My own personal opinion, the animals will be killed by another animal anyway. They charge on average $4,500 to shoot one animal. That covers the price of caring for the other animals and being able to breed more. I think that it is fine, they only let 10% of the animals get shot. In the wild, it's uncontrollable. For what we know strangers could be killing 80% of herd population. This means that the populaition on the ranches are increasing. No hate here it's just my opinion.

[lasourisaboyante]

@theraVen27 Son, I have lived in an agricultural community all of my life. I spent time from when I was old enough to hold a gun killing pests & helping to slaughter animals. I hunt on the land where I live, bought specifically for that purpose. I'll tell you any damn thing I like and thank you to stay the fuck off my property and out of my business.

[lasourisaboyante]

"Anti-hunting: It's never ethical" ROFLOL! Bang on conviction of just how stupid you anti-hunters are. Anti-hunting IS never ethical, since you depend on hunters to defend the crops you eat, while you hypocritcally sit in your houses eating food that depends on us... the hunters and the pesters.

[goodaggie]

Texas ranches made it possible for the Oryx to survive and thrive without them they would be gone. Then you would have your wish, they would not be hunted.

[Pellaeon159]

No,youre making it into something it is not...

90% of people (those that I am talking about) just buy meat in the shop, sometimes they didnt even see that specific animal alive (when you buy something less standart)!!!

And your image of hunting is, I believe, idealised... Or like anti-idealised.

[theraVen27]

@Pellaeon159

i go out at 3am and help deliver the new born calf.

i wake up at 5am every morning and bottle feed them.

i go out again at 4pm and bottle feed them.

i doctor them i nurse them i protect feed and medicate them

then i kill and butcher them. don't tell me about how close you are with this deer you saw for the first time 20seconds ago from a mile away.

again don't turn this into something it is not.

you hide in a bush and shoot something a mile away while it eats

[Pellaeon159]

@theraVen27 You dont feel the pain itself obviously, but you HAVE to live through the experience of killing and taking its life for your own need. Not like now, when you just take a steak out of a refrigerator and hardly notice that there was pain, blood, and suffering behind it...

[billeybop]

@ltsmeltzer Sorry if I offended you and agree 100% with the program. I never gave much thought to other animals until I lost my pet of 12 years. I taught school and when kids would come in crying after losing a pet I would think they were crazy. I now know why they cried so hard. Had my first pet at 45. We're never to old to learn! :)

[ltsmeltzer]

@billeybop Glad to hear you recognize the difference. Too many people don't. My only real problem with trophy hunters is if they let the meat go to waste. Around here we have a "hunters for the hungry" program so there's no excuse for it. If someone wants to kill an animal for the antlers and donate the meat, I'm ok with that. I think it's pointless, but the animals get a better life than living in captivity and the meat gets used all the same. And their license fees fund conservation.