Hunting - Sport Or Murder?

I think as long as a person is a sustinence hunter rather than a sport hunter it is fine. As long as you are intending to use the meat and not just killing the animal for it's horns or it's whatever, it's okay. I've been involved with native people my whole life and have grown up eating moose, bear, beaver, rabbit and all sorts of other wild animals. I find it much easier to accept someone going out and killing a wild animal to feed themself and their family than I do raising an animal simply to slaughter it.

Well this is really intresting and i believe that hunting should be banned every where we should make farms and should not kill poor animals who are almost finished :)

I always notice the rush of adrenalin that these hunters get before shooting an animal. It's almost as if they turned into an animal themselves. Every year here in New Jersey we have a debate over killing Black Bears. People have moved into Black Bear territory and now complain about being inconvienence by them. So now they must kill them. And they fight like hell have their right to shoot these animals. Let me tell you something. No one will ever get me to eat bear meat. No way. Lloyd

I agree it feels like murder

Well I[m not a hunter, I don't even agree with indiscriminate killing of any being . That said, hunting was a means of survival. People hunting to get food, to survive. Also, I believe as a means for people - man usually - to prove themselves, to show their skills, etc.I can understand that. Nowadays that kind of hunting, specially in developed countries doesn't seem to be needed. Still many people enjoy hunting. And as far as I know, they do use the meat of the animals they kill, the skin, and probably some other parts that I don't know:) Most have licenses and follow rules - regarding which animals they are allowed to hunt, sizes I think, where and when. I have to say that even though I don't think I would ever like to hunt, I don't object to that kind of activity. Animals are exposed to this and much more from their own species, other species that prey on then and from the environment itself. I don't see why this is more cruel than the animal that is raised specifically for our nourishment, and killed in whatever facilities that then bring those steaks, and ribs and whatever to the places where we buy them. Actually, I think it's even less cruel, because it does give a fair ( or not sometimes ) chance to the animal.

i think killing anything can count as murder. they obviously dont think so...if u have ever seen the meet ur meat video u would be as disgusted as i was. it showed how they killed animals in a slaughter house i think it sick, but thats how we eat and how we have to live. but i do also agree with u on how the animals shouldnt have to suffer if they are going to be killed and eaten. i think that hunting is wrong and i think its a terrible way for anybody or animal to have to die.

You are right it is murder I do not agree with it at all and I wish they would make it Illegal. I can never understand why People just go out there to shoot Animals, it hurts me to know that this is going on. They have a right to live like we do, so why is there no law against it?

I have no problem with hunting. I don't know why you think the animal suffers more than the cow in the slaughter house. Hunters are very consious of the environment and conservation. I think as long as the hunters only hunt in season, only take what they're supposed to, it's not a problem.

Honestly I couldn't go out and kill anything just for the heck of it. Also deep down, if I was starving and the only food available was a wild animal, I don't know if I could kill even then. I do understand why there are different types of hunting seasons. Here in the south, in America, the deer gets over populated. You can tell when it's getting close to deer season. Every where you turn, you can see deer. Sad is seeing them laying along side the highway were they didn't make it to the other side. My husband was stationed in Newfoundland, Canada and he was telling me of having to outside to raise the flag, and having to go back inside because of a moose running loose on base. He also told me of being stuck inside because it was rut season and the base feared that someone would get hurt. He has on video of a group of them. Now some animals, I honestly think you have to shoot or be killed yourself. Wild Boars are very dangerous. Along with what I seen on the tv, they can get really big.

I sometimes watch the hunting shows that come on television. I'm always amazed at the adrenelin rush the hunters get right before and after shooting a animal. I don't hunt and would never sit out in the woods waiting for some deer or moose to walk by. To each his own, but it's not for me. Lloyd

Funny, this was our dinner conversation topic yesterday. Anyhow, we were discussing that sport hunting really is something that we wouldn't even consider. It's different if animals were killed because you NEED food, and quite another thing to make it something FUN.

Man has always been a hunter gatherer but for necessity, not for fun. If you go hunting for food, then ok you try to make a quick kill. I have never quite got the point of hunting for sport, what kind of sport is it to torment an animal, finally kill it, then brag about it.

I personally would never hunt for sport, but heaven forbid, if I was in the middle of nowhere and I had no choice but to hunt for my food then I would do so to feed my family. I never understood why anyone would find it a thrill to kill anything, especially an animal that never harmed anyone, just to get a 'rush'. So, to answer your question, I'd have to say it's murder.

You know its funny how much talk there has been about how the animal "feels" and how "unfair" hunting is. i think one big mistake people make is thinking that animals think and feel just like humans. I have worked around animals and hunted all my life and I have seen horses with large deep muscle cuts, broken lags, eyes poked out I've seen deer hit by cars, I've seen three lagged deer I am right now doctoring a horse that has a bad wire cut on it foot and the day I found it the horse was out eating grass with the other horses. It was lipping a little but thats it. My point is animal do not feel or think like people I know this because they are not human they are animals you should not think of animals being like humans they are animals and because of that they can not tell you how they feel or how they think. Hunting in "most" cases is more humane then the way one animal kills another animal. wolfs are not humane, snakes are not humane, I have seen a big snake eat a rabbit and the last thing I would call it would be humane.

Hunting is a sport so long as you use all of the animal you can. I hunt adn enjoy being outdoors adn actually shooting the animal. I totally disagree with trophy hunting or just shooting for the sake of shooting an animal. Trophy hunting and poaching i look at liek murder but it you hunt it and eat it it is just liek buying your meat in a store.