Can someone tell me how people who eat meat can be against hunting?!
Can someone tell me how people who eat meat can be against hunting?
It seems to me if you eat meat but are opposed to hunting, aren't you simply abbrogating your responsibility (to kill and clean) to someone else? Don't misuderstand me, if someone is an avowed vegan I certainly understand your apprehension to taking an animal's life, but it seems hypocritical to nourish yourself with meat from an animal that someone else killed (in a slaughterhouse no less) and then say "it's not OK" to hunt. Doesn't the hunter simply remove "the middle man?"
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Hunting confronts them with the responsibility that they are taking lives when they eat. Most meat eaters are in denial about where their food comes from, they need this denial in order to keep eating. Hunting keeps them from being able to look the other way, and reminds them they are just as guilty as hunters - in fact even more so (see chedda lady's post above).
Wild animals have at least lived outside, and had a natural life. Factory-farmed animals live lives of abject misery. Also, since we have killed off almost all of the wild predators, herbivores like deer will overpopulate their environments and starve or be hit by cars.
I think everyone who eats meat should be required by law to kill their own. If you're going to eat it, you should have to look into that animal's eyes and take responsibility for that.
By they way, anyone who says anything about eating meat being "natural" is in complete denial. There is nothing remotely natural about where factory farmed meat comes from.
Hmmm..I eat meat and have no problem with hunting. I totally agree that it would be hypocritical to think otherwise! If this is a question about gun-control I DO believe that hunters do NOT need AK-47's to hunt....so I guess there is that point. I am not a hunter, although my boyfriend is, and he brings home a lot of animals to eat. Do I like seeing a dead duck in my garage? Not so much....Do I love eating it?...Yeah, I do! And I love the idea that I know where it came from and what's not been added to it, to preserve it or add color and that kind of crap.
Perhaps they are concerned with the attitude that goes along with hunting, or the fact that most hunters are more interested in the trophy than the meat. Personally, I'm all for hunting...I love venison...could I actually do it...probably not...I'm a softie.
well it depends on what you are hunting. I wouldn't care if the animal you are shooting is plentiful. and it cant be in my yard. and as long as you dont waste your kill.
hunting's cruel.
when they are killed in an abbatoir, they're killed humainely and quite often the animals are specifically bred for us to eat.
If we didn't eat them, then they'd be significantly fewer of them, because people wouldn't breed them.
because people are not always consistent
I eat meat and I don't think hunting makes much sense. I understand what you are saying, but eating an animal is nothing more than the natural order of life. I like to eat meat and I understand how it gets to me, but I don't want to watch someone slaughter it. But that isn't even really the point. Hunting is killing animals for fun. What is the difference between shooting a deer for fun and some sick twisted kid who one day will go on a shooting spree at his school killing a little puppy dog or something? The answer is nothing because they are both killing for fun. A slaughterhouse is killing animals, but it is for a reason. People need food to survive and that is a source.
The same way people love dolphins but eat chickens, the same way people love dogs but eat pigs.
Incongruous world.
Yes, no, maybe. Just get me a cheeseburger. I know you find this hard to believe, but most of us don't really spend that much time thinking about it. It's meat. It came from an animal, and I'm really pretty glad that some other schmuck had the distasteful job of killing it and pulling off it's skin and ripping out it's guts.
I don't hunt because I don't have to. I can just go to the store to score some meat, or better yet, go to a restaurant and get the meat and have somebody else deal with the fire and spices and preparation, and all I have to do is EAT EAT EAT!
We humans went to a whole heck of a lot of bother to set up a system that raises livestock, slaughters it, butchers it and serves it up piping hot, right in front of you with your choice of condiments and a choice of baked potato, or french fries. Why bother hunting?
Yummy meat. Personally, I'm not all that opposed to hunting. It's fine as long as it's somewhat controlled so that certain target species don't get wiped out. If all humans went out into the woods and started killing things (mostly each other, probably) havoc would ensue. I think you should eat what you kill, though. Whatever.
i eat meat! but i am not gonna go out and kill a cow or bambi or whatever, why would anyone want to do that? but most american's eat meat! you can't stop that! it's your decision to not eat meat, don't hate against people who do! i don't get paid to kill animals, i work at a bank not a butcher shop!
I guess there's a difference between hunting wild animals & raising herds simply for the slaughterhouse. It'd be a wonderful world if animals weren't slaughtered for our gain but I don't think an entire country, plus other coutries we export to, could survive on lettuce.
just being hypocrites i guess and maybe they feel that since its a manufactured meat its ok to eat. plus all they see is the meat in the package at the store. im not a hunter but i am not agianst either unless your hunting panda bears or some other extinct animal.
I eat meat, and have no problem with hunting, as long as it isn't JUST for sport-basically, the meat of the animal is eaten. Killing for the sake of killing is wrong, killing for food is basic survival instinct. There is a vast difference between the two IMO.q
I eat meat but am anti-hunting - I am anti-gun.
I live in northeast Pa which is the deer killing capital of the east coast. They close all public schools here on the first day of deer season so the kids can join the slaughter. A majority of hunters are idiots - large amounts of alcohol are consumed, safe hunting practices are not followed, hunting too close to housing. Every year we lose a few hunters due to friendly fire.
I personally believe that all guns in the US should be outlawed - luck at the murder rates between the US and England. Then tell me there is no correlation between guns and murder.
Wow, some good answers here. I personally think it's usually a matter of either the person not believing in waste, I.E. trophy killing where none of the meat is used, or they would prefer having the animal killed in a humane manner. Many people think that animals are killed in an inhumane manner, and in some cases like chicken this is true, for larger animals anything that would frighten them or cause undue physical pain before death would cause them to balk or to scream/bleat/whatever in a way that would frighten the rest of the animals and cause those animals to balk. For reasons of efficiency animals are killed in as humane a manner as possible. Hunting on the other hand is never a certain thing, maybe you'll get a lucky hit that'll kill an animal instantly, or maybe you'll just mortally wound them and they'll struggle and be in pain for hours.
Cause people are squeamish about where their food comes from. Also, some hunters are trophy hunters.
As a vegan, I respect the diets of hunters who eat the meat of the animals they kill far more than the diets of people who eat factory farmed meat. I know quite a few hunters who only eat meat that they (or perhaps friends), have killed themselves. They won't touch meat from the supermarket. I respect the fact that they know where their food comes from, and, at least for the hunters that I know, respect the animal that they've killed. Do I like this? No, but I can respect their position. I knew someone once who got really upset because someone killed chickens at a family gathering (on a farm!), butchered them, and served them for dinner. She didn't see how anyone could do that. Mind you, she is a HUGE fan of McDonald's chicken nuggets. I guess for some people, it's out of sight, out of mind. I also know people who refuse to eat meat that looks like meat (i.e. off the bone). That's pretty ridiculous. I don't think they've earned the right to eat it. If you can't stand the idea of meat, go veg!
I've also found that hunters like the aforementioned ones are usually against the hunting of animals for sport or trophies, as well as poaching.