Green - An environmentalist community

Hunting also needs to be looked at objectively. Many people hunt, and for many different reasons.

Poor people will hunt because it's is free food. Some risk they're lives to do it. Some places like Tanzania will kill poachers. We need to look into removing that incentive, as in, we need to reduce global poverty.

I hunt because one deer will be most of my meat for a year. The price to have someone else cut it up makes it cost the same as cheap grocery store ground beef, but it tastes better and is much more eco friendly than that cute would have been.

Rich people BS hunting like I imagine you're referring to is BS, but they pay big money to do it. The money they spend on that one animal funds the preservation of many times more animals, and by having a legal process to do it, there is less incentive to do it illegally, where accurate counts of animals taken can't be done.

The first example I can think of showing the success of this is the American Alligator. They were almost wiped out, but now they flourish because people want to hunt and/or eat them. I think it's something like 10 are raised fire every one that is allowed to be hunted. I'll admit, it's a bit like strange logic at first, but there are success stories to show it works.

I love animals. I even take care of the spiders at my house the best I can. But I hunt ethically as possible, just one legal deer a year. That deer lived a better life than a feed lot cow, didn't need to clear cut or pollute land to live, and it was appreciated for it's sacrifice every day by me, and I do my best to not waste a scrap of that meat, because I had to do the hard part myself.

I've met unethical hunters, and I won't associate with them. They're trash like any other cruel person. But most are regular people.