Hunting: Is It a Sport or Just Plain Murder?

I'm so totally against it to...Yes it's one thing if one hunts and they do eat the meat, but to kill innocent animals just for the "fun" of it is so totally wrong...Did you know they have these places where a "great" mighty hunter can kill animals such as lion, tigers and the such...they are usually animals that are "retired" from zoos and circuses that they sell off to these places. So gee, some a$$hole, instead of going on an African safari and kill an animal, all he needs to do is to go to one of these places --these aren't even wild animals per se...they are used to people...so not afraid of people..so they are literally sitting ducks (no pun intended)--and are therefore killed easily...gee, some glory, no for that mighty hunter..disgusting

I tend to look at it as a sport but then I do know people that hunt and it does help them out as they use the meat, saving a ton on their grocery bill. More often than not, I see the ones that really need the food are the ones that can not afford the hunting licence. quite often these people will bring home food that only they or thier friends will eat. We breed and raise certain animals for the sole purpose of human consumption. Our forefathers hunted as a means of survival...today it is just an expensive sport. It is not a necessity. Those that kill just for the sake of killing really get my blood boiling. Some will argue that it is to prevent overpopulation. ok then...what about humans...do we have a human hunting season? obviously i am not a hunter!

also would like to enlighten you all just alittle bit more....we are all ancestors of hunters. people that had to kill food for their families survival....you think people that hunt for sport is murders, then just take a peek into your very own family histories of mass murders of the animals for food! They didn't think twice about pulling the trigger to kill a poor innocent animals.....so what does that make you and your family. Decendents of killers! So what makes you think you, your family, your ancestors are any better than the hunters...the hunters just save money on grocery bills, that is all while you spend more money hiring the hitman to kill your food for you, let me ask you who is smarter? I say the hunter, he has more money to spend! The animals are safe from me, I don't like the taste of wild meat, although I grew up eating it. Besides I wouldn't kill them unless I felt my family or I was going to be harmed, or it was to save my family from starvation.

Yes it is murder and it is wrong. I have made a few enemies in my life with my anti hunting views! The only way hunting would be acceptable is if we got to hunt the hunters. Just imagine they are setting there sights on bambi and out of the woods come us anti-hunters and blow a hole right through the hunters skull and call it sport! Hunting season on hunters!

I do not eat meat and am against hunting. I grew up in a hunting community, though so I can see how it becomes ingrained in a culture and acepted as a way of life. I do not pass judgement on meat eaters (my bf is not a vegetarian) but I can't stand the idea of hunting for pleasure or sport.

hunting in a very obvious way its jus a plain murder ...

Well, I think it wouldn't be murder but waste if you kill an animal and not use it for food. Otherwise, it is the same act, killing, and there shouldn't be a difference of what you do witht he carcass thereafter. The bottomline is that you have killed an animal.

I agree with you whole-heartedly. If the meat is going to be used for food, I fully support that. However, I have seen people with just the "racks" of deer in the back of their trucks and that really makes me angry. Hunting preserves are ridiculous, the poor animals don't even have a chance to get away!

I have no problem with real hunting. That is, tracking the animal in the wild, killing and then using at least the meat. "Hunting" for the sole purpose of having a head to stuff or hunting in enclosed pens isn't hunting in my opinion. I love Ted Nugent's style. He uses every single part of the animals that he can. Have you ever seen him in a leather jacket? I'd bet $1000 that those leather jackets are made from the hide of something he killed and not only did he use the hide, but his family used every bit of edible meat on that animal. Not to mention every other "resource" from the animal that could possibly be used. Even when he's hunted in Africa, the meat from his kills was, I believe, given to local tribes who needed meat.