Originally posted by MacD37:
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Originally posted by ledvm:
But too...what we must all embrace is that this IS what is supposed to happen and not make it villain as well.
Hyenas have to eat. Lions have to eat. Wild dog have to eat. Leopards, cheetahs, jackals, coyotes, wolves, etc etc all have to eat.
This is how it happens and has since the beginning. It is the way it is supposed to be. We may think it is brutal...but it is as natural as a dog lapping water.
While it would do good to draw the comparison to validate that hunting is not cruel...we have to not go too far and make 'killing' itself out as brutal. Killing is as much a part of life...as life itself.
You are absolutely correct! However the comparison between the two killings are not fairly compared by the anti hunting community.
We as hunters are called murderers , while the greenies chose to take a blind eye to the fact that all animals are either prey, or hunter, and hunters are not given acceptance of that fact.
the end result of both predator "MAN" being one, and the other being the prey. A full 99% of all animals being killed by man or beast become food, for someone, and with man the hide also can become clothing as well as food.
Man happens to be a predator that is actually omnivore, and even if the hunter doesn't eat the meat from an animal, none of it goes to waste in Africa, and I would say a full 90% is consumed by either man or his animals even in the USA. The fact remains that the death rendered by an animal predator, is far more cruel that that killed by a human hunter.
What the greenies need to understand is, a natural death between animals is far more painful for the victim, than one killed by a hunter with a rifle.
In both cases the prey animal dies, and the predator feeds, and both are necessary to the species being hunted, to maintain viable habitat for not only the prey species, but for other species as well who depend on that habitat for their livelihood.
You being a VET certainly know the truth being that some animals must die so others may prosper, not just man but all other animals as
well. man included.
………………..In my case I simply tire of outright lies fostered by the anti hunting people, when they know they are lies, but simply want to change nature, not protect it from over use the way all hunters want it. Nobody I know wants all animals wiped out, and no hunter I have ever met wants the game laws broken, or all game shot out of existence, that is why we have game laws in every hunting field s world wide.
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