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A recent study made in Finland shows that hunting is consired to be more acceptable now than it was before. What's your opinion?

Posted: Thursday November 24, 2005, 6:43 am
      

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Sarvo Pama (2847) 		Thursday November 24, 2005, 7:11 am
As a boy I hunted and it was a thrilling experience. Now that I know more about life and death, suffering and karma; I'm not going to kill if I can help it. The karma is really heavy.

Susan E. (9) 		Thursday November 24, 2005, 9:10 am
Please read the thoughts of: Gandhi and other evolved humans, all are against the dominion of animals. They are not ours to eat, wear, hunt, exploit in any way, they are our neighbors, not
commodities to do with as we so desire.
Hugs, Sue

Adriana G. (251) 		Thursday November 24, 2005, 11:13 am
Hunting is cruel.. it shows why humans think we own this planet, thats not true.. I think we are here to share it and protect all life beings (animals, plants..etc)

Amanda Taylor (63) 		Thursday November 24, 2005, 7:53 pm
I do not believe that any animal should be tracked down, scared for their lives and then guned down by a gun or killed by a knife.....I will never accept anyone in my life that hunts animals

natasha A. (1) 		Friday November 25, 2005, 1:18 pm
Hunting has been a part of life for every species since the dawn of time. To die in the hunt is just as natural as dying of old age.

JeZa Shobo (295) 		Saturday November 26, 2005, 4:28 am
-Hunting ... the least honorable form of war on the weak.
Paul Richard (1828-1896)

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- )

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.
Gilbert Murray (1866-1957)

To derive pleasure in being cruel is a very debasing matter. It shows a person to be unmindful of the sanctity of life and the meaning of life. There is something very foul and evil in the lives of men and women who delight in destroying helpless life, especially in what is known as "blood sports".
Rev.F.C.Baker (1889-1961)

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

Laura Robinson (41) 		Sunday November 27, 2005, 6:15 am
I answered "no" to this poll, but it truely depends on the situation. I am of a nature religion and live in the country so therefore, I observe nature and accept its ways. There IS a food chain, no matter how much some of us want there not to be. I don't have a problem with people hunting that will eat what they kill and need the meat. I have SERIOUS problems with people who hunt for trophies and for sport. And worse problems with the jerks that roll into my town from the cities, with their gigantic hunting trailers and 4-wheelers, barely know how to use a gun, get all liquored up before they go to shootin', then trespass in my back pasture when there are hunting leases to be had all around my area. During deer season, I'm always expecting a stray bullet to fly through my back window.

A T F. (0) 		Sunday November 27, 2005, 1:51 pm
what is its purpose? What end need does it fulfill? Who is best served by it? If animals participated on an equal level would it still be a "fun sport"?

Maree Denton (0) 		Sunday November 27, 2005, 2:47 pm
I accept the fact that hunting is a necesary evil. It is fact that some animals need to be culled regularly or they overtake everything around them. I do not like hunting and completly do not agree to indiscriminate killing for the sake of killing. This is a very hard question to answer with just a yes or no.

Past Member (0) 		Monday November 28, 2005, 7:29 am
I have been hunting now for 25 years. I respect Mother Nature and all She has to offer. I will only hunt what I eat and do not kill just to kill.

Niina K. (36) 		Monday November 28, 2005, 8:00 am
Thanks everybody for your comments! I'm glad there are so many people with a clear opinion about this. I agree with many of you that hunting is natural as long as it is a way of gathering food. But when people hunt just for the fun of it or in order to get a new head on the wall, I think it's unacceptable. That doesn't show respect to life.

Past Member (0) 		Tuesday November 29, 2005, 9:21 am
Mankind has come to view, and quite wrongly I believe, that somehow God's heart is less tender toward smaller creatures than toward humans. If God sees each sparrow that falls, I certainly would never want to be the cause of such an innocent death. When I look into the gentle eyes of a doe, my heart tells me for that graceful creature, God would shed a tear.

Eeva H. (15) 		Tuesday November 29, 2005, 1:46 pm
I voted 'yes', because hunting can mean alot of things. For people in Finland it's usually a hobby and a sport, and I guess that's what the question was about, hunting for fun? That I don't accept, but there are still people left in this world who live by the nature, and wouldn't survive without hunting. Like Laura Robinson here said, there is a food chain and we are part of it.

Pekka Räsänen (52) 		Thursday December 1, 2005, 3:16 am
Hi! I think much the same with others who accept hunting&fishing here, like Eeva, Niina & Walter

Lisa Watson (8) 		Thursday December 8, 2005, 6:50 pm
Hunting is so important. We live in rural Virginia and the deer are rampant. They are so over populated that they are skinny and dying of starvation.They cause massive traffic accidents as they run into the road looking for food and shelter. Although hunting might seem cruel, it is much worse to see them with stunted growth and diseased. There are strict hunting laws that make sure that they are not over-killed. Unfortunatly, animals that reproduce in abundance have to be thinned out productively. Next time you are offended by the death of a hunted animal, research the group "Hunters for the Hungry".

Liza V. (17) 		Saturday December 10, 2005, 10:43 am
i think even hunting 4 food is wrong go 2 da store if ur hungry! over population not issue da animals would take care of that!

Past Member (0) 		Friday December 30, 2005, 3:09 pm
Hunting for animal population control, hunting for disease control, hunting to control nuisance animals, hunting to use animals as food resource (hunters for the hungry) are acceptable to me. Animals are just that, animals. You can _think_ what you want, _believe_ what you want, but that doesn't mean that are _are_ correct - that is just what you think or believe. It has no reference to my beliefs or my actions. *I* believe that man is above the animals. That doesn't mean I am in favor of slaughter, although some of you will think that any hunting is slaughter. I am not in favor of un-ethical hunting, but some of you think that any hunting id un-ethical. Oh well.
Gandhi had his beliefs. That doesn't mean he was right. Do some research on both sides of the argument. Follow your personal beliefs personally. Don't expect me to follow your beliefs, because you will be disappointed. All of the quotes are cute and cool, but they're just quotes... for every saying or quote against hunting, there will be one for it. Hunting has been, is, and will be a part of humans' lives since the beginning of time -- and it should continue to be that way.
If you have stereotypical views of hunters, then you are being bigoted. Just because one "liberal" is evil doesn't mean that all "liberals" are evil. The stereotype of drunken, idiot hunters is just that... the vast (vast) majority of hunters are not only ethical people, but also loving, life-oriented people. Does that sound ironical? It's not. As a hunter, I have a great respect for life, for animals, and for humans. If you think otherwise, you are wrong and closed-minded. Funny, isn't it?

What purpose does it serve / what end does it serve? Various, from religous/spiritual, to home economics, to health, environmental controls, to just plain rights.

I'd write more, but it's time for dinner... it will include meat, although unfortunately it will be commerical meat instead of healthy hunted meat.

Vicki G. (26) 		Sunday January 1, 2006, 1:11 pm
I do believe in hunting under certain conditions -hunting to put food on the table for your won consumption is acceptable but not in the form of selling what has been shot - HOWEVER you take only what your family can eat or perhaps your neighbour as well and be thankful for the survival that the animal has given you.Wounding an animal and then not tracking it is totally unacceptable! Killing for Sport is totally unacceptable!!! One species hunts and kills another - that is the balance in nature. Humans do not respect that balance. There is only a small percentage of human that must rely on hunting to feed their families. If you do not NEED to hunt to eat then it is nothing more than a Sport and as such is unacceptable.

Vibraceous ND (802) 		Friday January 6, 2006, 2:38 am
It is hard to accept this, because to me, killing is wrong...even for meat.

I have always had extremely strong beliefs on this topic and would not budge on my stance until I fell in love with a man who hunts Italian wild pigs. I could never marry a man who drags dead things home to our kitchen...yuck...or who wants to hang heads on the wall, but there are a few things I can say in a hunter's defense.

If a person is going to eat meat, which in our society most people do, then this would be the healthier way for the consumer of flesh, since the meat would have no additives and would be naturally raised. It is better, too, for the animal to at least have a life in their natural environment, rather than in a stockyard somewhere with little that's natural to them. The final end is death for both types of animals...those raised for meat and those hunted...but the ones who are hunted have a much easier death, and surely a much nicer life.

It is very easy for people to go into a grocery store and grab a hunk of meat out of the cooler and not think about it ever having been a fellow-creature of ours. But to look it in the eye, at least a hunter knows it was once alive before it was taken for food.

I absolutely in no way shape or form have any respect for the "sport." I abhor trophy hunting and caged hunts the most, and killing for fur, in my opinion, is absolutely intolerable.

But if an animal is going to lose it's life, I think it should be done with respect, as the Native Americans did.

My children have of their own choice gone on and off of a vegetarian diet for years. I try to teach them that if they eat meat, to always give thanks at the table for the animal who gave it's life. I also try to teach them how to choose quality meats. When I buy meat, which isn't often, it is either organic or Amish raised. (I live close to Amish country and the Amish always raise their livestock with love and respect, and give them a more decent life.)

Hunting is awful. I hate it. But it's a better choice than just buying meat blind from the freezer case. Society has grown callous to this.

(Please pray for the Italian pigs! Thanks!)

~Vibraceous

Charlotte Weston (66) 		Thursday January 19, 2006, 6:15 am
Personally I have not ever hunted and now am not even much of a flesh eater, only occasionally. However the are many people in the world who depend on hunting to exist, not huge corporate people, but indiginous folk who must hunt or fish to eat.

Skylla S. (10) 		Tuesday January 24, 2006, 8:09 pm
Hunting for food if you are IN NEED. If you have 2 cars, full time jobs & can afford to go to the market, there's no need to go out in the woods & kill anything.

Sage M. (7) 		Thursday January 26, 2006, 10:29 pm
My dad is a hunter so I grew up around all that, but I personally don't accept hunting. This past June I became a vegetarian. But if it is a choice between hunting for meat or going to the grocery store for it, I guess I would choose hunting because I am highly against factory farming.

Louise Davies (12) 		Thursday February 16, 2006, 10:14 am
I am totally without question against hunting wild animals for sport and killing animals for nor eason other than to shoot them purely for egocentric people. In this day and age, there is absolutely no need for it, the same goes for factory farming. But, my grandfather grew up as a butcher and they used to keep foul and rabbits specifically for food. The animals used to have all the space they needed and, when the time came, they would be killed. This I have no problem with. Hunting because you think it's satisfying to simply take away a life is appalling. People who live in rainfrests and hunt the animals for food, but also use the products are also acceptable. They leave adequate amounts for the species to survive and work with nature. Why can't western society understand?

Michelle Marie Williams (8) 		Friday March 17, 2006, 8:07 am
if you are hunting to feed your family and fishing to do the same i agree with hunting God put animals here for food clothing and commpanionship hunting just for the sport is wroung and i wont let my family hunt that way

Elissa Bosma (0) 		Friday March 17, 2006, 6:57 pm
In Austrailia, we have animals like foxes and feral cats who are killing many endangered species. I have no problem with people hunting those types of animals to save the endangered ones.

Victoria Hogsed (3) 		Wednesday March 22, 2006, 8:22 pm
I am a "country" girl. We tend to hunt Deer and Turkey, but we eat it so,for us it's for sport and to eat....EATIN'S GOOD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!

Jeanna Romano (0) 		Tuesday March 28, 2006, 2:59 pm
In many states of America, deer are overpopulated. Deer eat native, healthy plants, not foreign invasive plants. The over population of deer is essentially bad for the environment. Hunting is balancing this out.

One must look for the good in something that appears to be cruel and unjustified.


And as for vegetarians (as I am one)its less cruel to kill a wild animal than a farm animal.

Past Member (0) 		Wednesday May 17, 2006, 4:59 pm
I live in an area where many people are self-sufficient and also live around poverty level. Hunting food helps supplement what they can bring in. Myself, I make about $6.00 an hour in a rural area and I would like to learn to hunt in order that I might be come more self-sufficient because not eating right has already cost me by making me anemic and low in vitamin b12, which is gained mostly by meat and poultry. I have a numb spot on my leg and lack of B12 also causes your tastebuds to work in weird ways. (Hot food is REALLY HOT, like it never was before). Lack of B12 causes nerve damage and brain damage (memory). So yes, I would to keep myself healthy and self-sufficient. Meat is getting more and more expensive every day. I have to work one hour to buy about 2 pounds of hamburger meat.

Angie L. (67) 		Friday May 19, 2006, 12:03 am
These days hunting for ones own food would be far better than having to eat Factory Farmed animals!. Factory Farming is so cruel and abusive to all the farm animals, even the dairy cows!.

Brittany R. (0) 		Wednesday June 21, 2006, 10:04 am
I think hunting is a logical way to control populations of species that are too large. In PA if there was no deer hunting season there would be a lot more accidents from deer crossing roads and PAs forest are already suffering from the deer browsing which is one of the biggest problems with the sustanability of our forest.
The game commission sets standards and only allows hunters to kill the amount that keeps the deer population at a healthy level.

Molly L. (28) 		Wednesday May 9, 2007, 5:31 pm
arm the animals.
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