I’m not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I’m talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they’re obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.
Miss me with the “tradition” stuff, it’s just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don’t tell me it’s to eat, like I said, I’m not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don’t tell me you’re respectful to the animals you kill; I don’t believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.
Cats are spayed and neutered at the humane society to protect their population. I’ll give you one guess as to what open-season is about.
Yeah, I’m not saying there’s not legitimate cases for population control. It’s the people and their hobby I have opinions about. Would it be weird for people to go hunt cats, pose by their corpses for pictures, etc., like is done with deer if it was because cats impact the environment when it comes to bird population? If not, why bother spaying and neutering instead of just killing?
The Blacktail jackrabbit is invasive where I’m at, but rabbits in general are free game. You can find YouTube videos of teenagers going out and taking them.
The kill isn’t glorified, and the meat consumed.
I can’t reconcile those ideas.