Why is it okay to some people that a lion eats a gazelle, but they have a problem with me?!
Answers: hunting deer for meat? The meat that I don't use either is given away to friends and family or I have donated it to homeless shelters as well. What's the problem?
No problem with it. It's more ethical than farmed meat. Happy natural life, BANG!, dinner on the plate. No steroids or antibiotics, no cramped conditions. That's how nature works (minus the gun, obviously). I don't pretend to be anything other than an educated animal and part of the natural cycle, so I'm happy to eat hunted meat.
I've eaten antelope in Kenya, horse in France, venison in England. All yummy.
There is no problem. If you eat all its gifts, there is absol.utely no problem. Its just like those people critisizing you who are eating hamburgers, steak, chicken, bacon, or turkey. They're eating animals as well, but you just work harder to get it.
And besides, you have to kill animals for meat. Cows and chickens and pigs must be killed so that we can eat, just like the lion and the gazelle. So going to the supermarket would not help at all.
I see no problem..it is just a lot of people are really stupid and ignorant. They don't want anyone to harvest any type of wild game. But they pay for it in the long run. We have mountain lions malling and killing people in cities because of the ban on hunting them...Oh well I laugh every time someone get hurt by wild animals. I figure you get what you deserve for being so stupid
I'm not sure what the problem is. Most veggies or vegans just find it cruel period, which is a little stupid. They feel that we don't need meat, and some think they're better than we are. But you're hunting for your own meat, which is good enough for me. And you're using it as well, especially donating it to homeless people who really need it. And they better not say homeless people should go vegan. It's not healthy for a homeless person because vegan meals are often more expensive anyway. And besides, not a lot of vegans realize that male lions will eat their own young for no reason, and jackal mothers will kill her babies for fittest baby--which in technical terms, human beings to do, because believe or not, it is our instinct--and baby jackals will kill each other--a certain sect of tigers eat humans, even though they have plenty of food. Try arguing that to hard core vegans and they'll slap nonsense in front of your face.
No problem. Some people are just ignorant about nature. What I really want to know, is if deer really can and do enjoy being out in the wild, if they suffer on the same levels as humans, or if they even care if they live or die (fight or flight instincts notwithstanding).
If people can prove that the answers to those questions is yes, maybe I might become a vegetarian.
I think it is responsible to hunt, and I applaud you. Meat we buy in the super market is mass produced, most often with questionable value. Also the animals who are slaughtered are treated awful. Not to mention the fact that of the meat slaughtered for sale, much is simply thrown away due to packaging issues, or expiration dates. To hunt for you own meat, as long as you use it all, is more humane and efficient.
Easy: you can choose what you eat. A lion, an animal in general, can't.
There really is not a problem. Best tool of human beings' advancement is the emotion of inferiority and superiority both. And people are compelled to tell you on their opposition to not only show you, but to themselves that they are better.
The problems people have you hunting for deer meat are not a single reason. Some might have religious oppositions whilst some might be against it purely for "animal rights". If they are against your hunting and consumption of deer meat because of religion (which i highly doubt), they would probably not really have a problem with you specifically, but consuming it themselves.
But if it is due to reasons of "animal rights" or "animal loving" their motives are due to the emotions of interior/superiority, unless you have hunted their pet deer and ate it.
Any modern movements supported by trends will have numerous followers who define themselves by their "importance" and "knowledge" of what society should be. Everyone thinks they are right, no one thinks that they are doing the wrong thing. And this is perfectly natural.
However, self-righteousness driven by a trend is a serious problem. This creates an almost fanatical preachers who are almost always extreme, in seeing things very black and white. As long as people do not give you problems, their opposition is respectable as it is their opinion.
Vegans, Vegetarians, Animal lovers, pet owners all have their opinions. But they should not use you, as a tool to feel better about themselves.
p.s. I've never eaten a deer... but now I really want to try.
Killing animals without giving them a chance to survive is cruel and unfair to them(shooting them from the woods). Even though its your choice, i would like to see a hunter try to kill an animal(a deer) with their bare hands and teeth(like any predator would) I don't have a doubt about who'd win.
thats totally different. there are so many different varieties of foods out for us now, veggie foods,that theres no excuse to hunt
Because its ILLEGAL ! get it dude
I think hunting for meat and using all of the animal is more ethical than buying your meat at a supermarket.
I'm only responsible for my choices and moral decisions, nobody else's. I'm vegan, and I made that choice in order to minimise my contribution to animal suffering and exploitation. Other people, you included, have made different decisions and choices..
For me, the difference is that I have a choice; the lion doesn't. Just as I don't NEED to kill animals to wear their skins as clothing, and I don't need to live in a cave, so I don't need to use animals as food.
That's a choice I made for me; your choice is different and I don't have a problem with that.
I admire you, but I hope in the native american tradition, you use the WHOLE animal and don't waste any (or very little).
I choose to not eat meat for personal convictions, if you can respect me, I can respect you.
I applaud you for helping out the homeless and giving away what you don't eat. We are all part of a food chain, and like the lion and gazelle, we happen to be higher up and can hunt. How did our ancestors survive without stores? They hunted!
Question is : "Why is it okay to some people that a lion eats a gazelle, but they have a problem with me?"
A lion eats not only gazelle, but humans too. Note that an elephant, the biggest among surviving animal species, does not eat any animal food, and is strictly vegetarian. But, animals don't have the kind of thinking or "consciousness" that humans have, to decide what is right and wrong. Note also that humans ate other humans in the early stages of their biological evolution. Cannibalism was considered wrong and banned because it was against the interests of human society [even though you still read today occasional reports of how some individuals killed fellow-humans and ate their body parts over a period of time]. In the next stage of human evolution, humans ( at least some of them) decided that killing animals would upset the ecosphere, and gave religious/moral/ethical and philosophical justifications to avoid eating meat. So, go ahead and eat meat if you want to,
Lions kill gazelles for SURVIVAL. They need to eat, just like all living things and that is what they instinctively hunt.
The lions also go about it in a natural way - they are not toting guns and bows around the African plain, looking to take down their prey in that manner.
Those are the two huge differences between humans and animals - we do not need to kill animals for our survival nor are we equipped to do it without the assistance of weaponry.
It's okay that a lion eats meat because that's a part of nature. He has the speed, agility, fangs, claws and power to chase down an animal at 40+ mph. He also has the proper digestive tract to break down the raw flesh without getting sick. Last time I checked, man doesn't have any of the aforementioned qualities.
jenny seems to me to be implying that there is more than enough meat in general available and a good portion of it goes to waste. so there is no reason to kill more than is already being killed. i'm assuming you asked because you wanted to really know what people thought right?
Because it's unnecessary.
The lion eats the gazelle because it can't go to a super market and buy meat; you can.
Why would you want deer meat anyway? I've eaten venison once and it was absolutely disgusting.
If you really want to eat it, I'm sure there are places you can buy it without having to kill another deer.
It's like killing a chicken you find in the woods while meanwhile there are packages and packages of it available that will likely go to waste. I just don't get it.
Besides, hunting is strictly for hicks: Don't be that guy.