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Good God, GatorB, you've done it again...you've managed to suck all of the stupid out of the room...way to go, genius...
As someone who grew up as a hunter, an ethical hunter at that, I can say that most "animal rights" people and such are uneducated about animals at best. At it's core, hunting isn't about sport or impressing a couple internet jerkoffs, it's about putting food on your fucking table. You can go to the store and buy a nice steak that came from a cow that was knocked in the head or you can go out and hunt something down. Either way, an animal dies so it can be put on your table.
I think caged hunts are bullshit, but ultimately, if the meat is going to feed a family, then so what. There are some ethics in hunting and stop believing the stupid hillbilly stereotype of the guy sitting in a tree...sure, it happens, but those guys just don't have the grapes to track down an animal and actually "hunt".
I remember tracking deer, antelope, moose, elk, etc. sometimes for days...closing in and ultimately putting food on the table. This past September, I went antelope hunting with a bow and arrow. Sure, there's a rush associated with it and it had a nice set of antlers, but at the end of the day, you can't even make decent soup from fucking antlers. That antelope was sure tasty though. It became tasty sausage, antelope steaks and even managed to end up in a tasty antelope stew.
Ethical hunters are actually ecologists and constantly take care of mother nature. Sure, there are a few fuckfaces. Ultimately, a vast majority of hunters take care of nature. Hunting helps control animal populations. have any of you animal rights people ever seen a bunch of antelope or der starve to death from overpopulation? It's not a pretty site. Most ethical hunters will continue to track down a gut shot animal. One year, I even tagged a deer that was 90% wasted meat. Someone had gutshot it and either didn't know or care enough to track it down. When buying a hunting licenses, duck stamps, etc. that money is also used to help out with hunting areas, game farms and more.
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