Why is killing a farm animal okay to most...

[Abaddon]

I'm an outdoorsman...I love to hunt and fish. If that makes me a redneck eventhough I don't live in mississippi nor alabama than so be it.

aren't you from Louisiana?

 

[Taiwarriorz21]

yea Louisiana....People that do those things around this area are called "Cajuns" It has nothing to do with the country folks...I consider myself to be a Cajun b/c I have a little french blood in me. Nothing to be ashamed of at all...I love to hunt and fish and worship God.

 

[Kritish]

yea Louisiana....People that do those things around this area are called "Cajuns" It has nothing to do with the country folks...I consider myself to be a Cajun b/c I have a little french blood in me. Nothing to be ashamed of at all...I love to hunt and fish and worship God.

I know, you remind us of that everyday. But didn't Dew tell you to stay away from me?

 

[ScottyBBadd]

Well, usually farm animals get used to feed people, hunted animals...not always. I would guess that's it.

I was always taught, if you hunted and killed, you ate what you killed.

 

[Taiwarriorz21]

I was alway taught, if you hunted and killed, you ate what you killed.

well i believe that you were taught right.

 

[Kritish]

well i believe that you were taught right.

I'll give you some Dixie Chick concert tickets to get off my thread.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

well i believe that you were taught right.

Thank you.

 

[Manic]

I like to go fishing, which is essentially hunting on water. And I go fishing for fun (granted, I eat what I catch). I say let the hunters hunt.

You just won't catch me shooting a deer in the forest. Not because I think killing deer is wrong, but I just don't dig deer meat.

 

[Outsiderzedge]

Who gives a **** what hunters do as long as they aren't hunting an endangered species.

There should be a season for hunting liberals.

 

[Fried Gold]

Whilst hunting is frowned upon? At least the deer or whatever didn't have to live in a cramped farm. I'm surprised more people don't find hunting less cruel. No, I'm not a hunter; I'm just too lazy.

 

[November Rain]

Whilst hunting is frowned upon? At least the deer or whatever didn't have to live in a cramped farm. I'm surprised more people don't find hunting less cruel. No, I'm not a hunter; I'm just too lazy.

when you say killing a farm animal, do you mean slaughtering it for its meat or putting it out of its misery due to the fact it's been mutated and fattened up and its overly large body can no longer can be supported by its miniscule legs?

or are you referring to the putting down of ill animals like horses etc?

it's easy for one to assume any of these and it could take your thread off on a tangent so i ask you to please elaborate.

 

[ang_hulk]

huntings less humane.Cows are kept in barns,herded,milked and killed as painless as possible(despite what most think) and yes are here for food,even from biblical times they were food(not saying people didnt eat deer back then but cows are mentioned constantly) and used to feed humans.A deer is out in the free forest(somtimes called gamelands) and mabey has a family or an important role out there,If you shot it a few bad things can happen1.a female or 6 doesnt breed that year 2.you graze it and it gets away,you dont find it and it gets an infection and dies painfully 3.you injure it and somthing else gets to eat it 4.Some drunk idiot hunter thinks hes got a clean shot,sees the deer move and beats it with the stock of his gun(ive seen two examples of this on film) or worse.Another thing is gun shots disrupt nature and can have there own ill effects.Theres alot more to hunting then farming and i would respect somone who didnt like one or the other as long as they didnt enjoy eating animals that were harvested by hunters.

 

[November Rain]

huntings less humane.Cows are kept in barns,herded,milked and killed as painless as possible(despite what most think) and yes are here for food,even from biblical times they were food(not saying people didnt eat deer back then but cows are mentioned constantly) and used to feed humans.A deer is out in the free forest(somtimes called gamelands) and mabey has a family or an important role out there,If you shot it a few bad things can happen1.a female or 6 doesnt breed that year 2.you graze it and it gets away,you dont find it and it gets an infection and dies painfully 3.you injure it and somthing else gets to eat it 4.Some drunk idiot hunter thinks hes got a clean shot,sees the deer move and beats it with the stock of his gun(ive seen two examples of this on film) or worse.Another thing is gun shots disrupt nature and can have there own ill effects.Theres alot more to hunting then farming and i would respect somone who didnt like one or the other as long as they didnt enjoy eating animals that were harvested by hunters.

ang, i completely disagree.

hunting is natural, it's what got human kind to where we are in the first place and in a controlled balanced population causes no harm to the natural habitat or ecosystem.

it's when the mass growth of the human population can no longer live off the balance of the land and that it starts to rear food solely for consumption that it all goes out of the window.

have you never come across a battery chicken farm, especially before the legislation came in which lawfully required each chicken to have a certain area designated to itself? There is no way you can tell me those conditions are any more humane than any form of hunting, even sport hunting, especially when the farms are so dense that dead chickens can be left unnoticed for days and can easily infect the rest of the flock


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUmqMLKhkL8

 

[Kyalesyin]

When my father and I hunted, we picked off the sick ones. The last buck we took down had rotten teeth and couldn't eat. It would have starved midway through the winter. The one before that had a broken leg, and would either have starved or died of an infection. There is a reason you don't hunt while there are little deep running about- you wait until you can take care of themselves before picking off potential parents. Its called a cull.

We used everything from every deer, rabbit or duck we took down. We made sheaths for our hunting knives from the skins, used the bone and antler to re-handle dads throing knives, and I still have a few pounds of deer sausage in my mother's freezer. I actually perfer meat I've taken down myself to farmed meat. Wild meat, you know it hasn't been pumped full of chemicals and has had the best chance for a natural life.

 

[heypapajinx]

i agree.
i'm a strong advocate for hunting ones own farm animals.
thats why everytime i want a chicken dinner i get in stealth mode and dress up like Snake from MGS and go crack me some chicken necks.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Thats a hillarious mental image...

 

[heypapajinx]

Thats a hillarious mental image...

now if only Duende were here to manip me some pics!!!!!

 

[redmarvel]

1. Animals bred in captivity do not usually run the risk of going extinct as a species.

2. The farmer knows whether or not their are young animals that the parent is looking after. He also knows whether or not the animal he intends to kill is pregnant.

3. Farmers feed and care for the animals and their health. In the wild the creatures have to survive on their own. The farmer has "earned" the right, the hunter has not.

4. Farmers rarely accidently kill/injure themselves or other people while killing the animals they breed... the same can not be said for hunters.

5. Farmers rarely decide to get drunk before killing their animals... the same can not be said for hunters.

6. Farmers usually use all the meat of the animal they kill. They don't just cut off the head for a trophy and leave the body behind.

 

[LexCorp]

because most hunting serves no purpose other than Ego, the guys that dress the kill and stuff and that "live of the land" sure, go nuts.
but the guys in Camo with the high powered riffles and scopes and deer scent and cameras and motion detectors....yeah, **** them.

Your sig is great.

 

[Kyalesyin]

I have never hunted drunk, nor have I wounded an animal and left it. We always shoot for the back of the skull. It doesn't even feel it, because it dies that quickly, in fact, we tend to take out the injured ones. We always hunt late in the seaon, so that any young are well away from needing to be nursed or watched over. Often, we take out the yearlings that have been driven out of the herd and are unlikely to survive.

Aside from that, deer, duck and rabbits run no risk of becoming extinct here any time soon. Parts of Dartmoor they pay you to shoot the rabbits because they're such a menace.

 

[LexCorp]

If a cow had the chance it would kill you and everyone you cared about.

Spoiler

(Simpsons qoute)

 

[Ghostrider84]

because most hunting serves no purpose other than Ego, the guys that dress the kill and stuff and that "live of the land" sure, go nuts.
but the guys in Camo with the high powered riffles and scopes and deer scent and cameras and motion detectors....yeah, **** them.

ain't nothing worng with that.. I either go hunting with a .50 caliber rifle..... or a full automatic, w/ armor piercing bullets....

screw those deer and squirels, they are going down

 

[Ghostrider84]

If a cow had the chance it would kill you and everyone you cared about.

Spoiler

(Simpsons qoute)

aren't guns bad....?

WRONG

guns are good, did you know Jesus and Moses used guns to defeat the Romans?

 

[Dark Carnage]

The reason hunting (the fact that it's called Hunting is laughable) is frowned upon is because it's not about eating the animal, it's about proving how much of a man you are by blowing the back of an animal's head off from half a mile away.

Hunting does work as population control though, I read some where that there's too many white tale deer in the U.S.

I find it funny that Humans always feel the need to keep every other species population problems under control, while letting themselves breed beyond stupidity.

 

[Kyalesyin]

We always ate what we killed.