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Think before you criticize and use your money to help fight against corruption, unethical practices and poverty in the world, rather than spending your time and money fighting a perceived threat – the trophy hunter!
The problem is that many innocent people such as you – are victims of corruption yourself!
You are rallied in support of banning hunting, because you are appealed to by so called conservationists trying to ban hunting and in need of your support and money. You are a victim of emotional abuse as they use photos of dead animals to win your heart and not facts to win over your logic.
Most of these people don't have facts and don't rely on statistics to sell you into their causes, they use photography and emotional marketing campaigns to solicit support and raise millions & millions of dollars throughout the world.
If you are a true conservationists, open your eyes and your wallet, but not by donating to such so called worthy charities! Take your money and your time and visit these parks, sanctuaries and protected areas yourself.
You will soon realize (especially in Africa) that poverty and corruption is a bigger threat to wildlife and nature, than hunting could ever be!
Originally posted by relocator
THERE ARE ETHICAL HUNTERS OUT HERE – BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Yes, we even hunt elephant. [color=cyan] Elephant which are destroying their own habitat and killing themselves. If not controlled these very same elephants would have absolutely nothing to eat. They are destroying themselves, only because their are to many of them!
What should we do? Allow them to grow in numbers and demolish all the forests which they so desperately depend on?
Originally posted by noonebutme
Hunting for survival is one thing and I have no issue with that.
Hunting animals for fun with high powered rifles from hundreds of yards away? Complete and utter cowardice.
Anyone can kill an animal with a rifle - killing like that takes little true skill. If you're a "real" hunter, sneak up on the animal and "touch it" with your hand. If you can do that, then I have respect for you as a hunter.
edit on 14-3-2012 by noonebutme because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by tallcool1
Originally posted by noonebutme
Hunting for survival is one thing and I have no issue with that.
Hunting animals for fun with high powered rifles from hundreds of yards away? Complete and utter cowardice.
Anyone can kill an animal with a rifle - killing like that takes little true skill. If you're a "real" hunter, sneak up on the animal and "touch it" with your hand. If you can do that, then I have respect for you as a hunter.
edit on 14-3-2012 by noonebutme because: (no reason given)
So, can I assume that you are a vegan or vegetarian? Because if you consume beef that you purchased from a butcher or grocery store - and you call hunters cowards - you are a hypocrite.
The hamburger or steak you eat began as cattle that were herded into a confined truck or rail car and sent to a holding pen at the slaughterhouse. They then get their head restrained in a horribly uncomfortable looking restraining device - eyes bugging out in fear - so they can't get away. They are then "rendered unconscious" by a 300 volt and 2 amp electric shock to the back of the head (unless it's Halal for Muslims or Kashrut for Jews - as both of these require the animal to be conscious at the point of death). Then they are hung upside down by their back legs and their cartoid artery and jugular vein are slit open and they bleed to death. Then the head is removed as well as the feet and the processing of the carcass begins.
But when you kill an animal instantly with a rifle, that's cowardly. Right.
Originally posted by noonebutme
Hunting for survival is one thing and I have no issue with that.
Hunting animals for fun with high powered rifles from hundreds of yards away? Complete and utter cowardice.
Anyone can kill an animal with a rifle - killing like that takes little true skill. If you're a "real" hunter, sneak up on the animal and "touch it" with your hand. If you can do that, then I have respect for you as a hunter.
edit on 14-3-2012 by noonebutme because: (no reason given)