*starts crying*

My husband is a hunter and an animal lover--you can be both. My husband is also a First Nations man and hunts in many ways in keeping with that tradition. He even uses a bow and arrow sometimes (it's a special permit hunt up here to use that method). He won't take a bear because according to his medicine man he has a bear spirit so for him to kill a bear is like killing his brother. He would if the bear was about to kill him, but he never goes out looking for them. He does attract bears which can be a bit concerning when we go hiking together! :eek:

We use absolutely everything from the animals. The only thing that gets left behind is the guts, cuz nothing can eat those. We have friends who are native elders and they always want the liver, kidneys and the nose! My father in law is a carver and he takes the antlers. Anything that isn't fit for humans to eat is fed to the dogs. You want to see a happy husky--give him a moose leg bone! We have other friends who take the hides and turn them into beautiful leather. I'd love to learn how to do that, but it's a ton of work!

I could not feed my family if he didn't hunt. I couldn't feed my dogs if other people didn't hunt--the local wild game butcher gives mushers all his scraps and bones. My dogs are first on his list!

I find people who criticise hunters and hunting, while an hour before they ate a hamburger or a piece of chicken, to be hypocrites of the worse kind.

Unless you are a complete vegetarian, you have absolutely NO room to criticise ANYone who kills an animal to eat it. If you eat meat, you are absolutely responsible for that animal's death. It makes not one bit of difference if you pulled the bow string or the trigger yourself, or if you went through the drive-thru at Burger King.

I do not like sport hunters, who kill an animal simply for the thrill of killing, or for the antlers. Horrid people.

But ANY one of us who eats meat is either a hunter themselves, or are simply paying a premium for food that someone else killed for them. Same thing.

At least, IMO, a wild animal has a normal, decent life before it is shot and killed. It roams free, it lives naturally with those of it's kind, it raises it's young, etc. An animal in a slaughterhouse has NO life whatsoever, only long months or years of torture before an often brutal death. If you are truly concerned about where your food comes from and how that animal "lived" before you ate it, do some research. You will appalled and sickened, and have a much greater respect for the individual hunter then.

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My husband is a hunter and an animal lover--you can be both. My husband is also a First Nations man and hunts in many ways in keeping with that tradition. He even uses a bow and arrow sometimes (it's a special permit hunt up here to use that method). He won't take a bear because according to his medicine man he has a bear spirit so for him to kill a bear is like killing his brother.

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OMG, Glacier .... you are living my dream. Do you want a roommate?? Better yet, does your hubby have a single brother? ;)

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Originally posted by Twisterdog
I find people who criticise hunters and hunting, while an hour before they ate a hamburger or a piece of chicken, to be hypocrites of the worse kind.

Unless you are a complete vegetarian, you have absolutely NO room to criticise ANYone who kills an animal to eat it. If you eat meat, you are absolutely responsible for that animal's death. It makes not one bit of difference if you pulled the bow string or the trigger yourself, or if you went through the drive-thru at Burger King.

I do not like sport hunters, who kill an animal simply for the thrill of killing, or for the antlers. Horrid people.

But ANY one of us who eats meat is either a hunter themselves, or are simply paying a premium for food that someone else killed for them. Same thing.

At least, IMO, a wild animal has a normal, decent life before it is shot and killed. It roams free, it lives naturally with those of it's kind, it raises it's young, etc. An animal in a slaughterhouse has NO life whatsoever, only long months or years of torture before an often brutal death. If you are truly concerned about where your food comes from and how that animal "lived" before you ate it, do some research. You will appalled and sickened, and have a much greater respect for the individual hunter then.

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I agree 100%.

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Originally posted by Twisterdog
I find people who criticise hunters and hunting, while an hour before they ate a hamburger or a piece of chicken, to be hypocrites of the worse kind.

Unless you are a complete vegetarian, you have absolutely NO room to criticise ANYone who kills an animal to eat it. If you eat meat, you are absolutely responsible for that animal's death. It makes not one bit of difference if you pulled the bow string or the trigger yourself, or if you went through the drive-thru at Burger King.

I do not like sport hunters, who kill an animal simply for the thrill of killing, or for the antlers. Horrid people.

But ANY one of us who eats meat is either a hunter themselves, or are simply paying a premium for food that someone else killed for them. Same thing.

At least, IMO, a wild animal has a normal, decent life before it is shot and killed. It roams free, it lives naturally with those of it's kind, it raises it's young, etc. An animal in a slaughterhouse has NO life whatsoever, only long months or years of torture before an often brutal death. If you are truly concerned about where your food comes from and how that animal "lived" before you ate it, do some research. You will appalled and sickened, and have a much greater respect for the individual hunter then.

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I'm also in complete agreement!

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OMG, Glacier .... you are living my dream. Do you want a roommate?? Better yet, does your hubby have a single brother? ;)

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Unfortunately he is an only child. He does have some single buddies with similar philosophies though and his dad is single. He's 60, but he looks much younger. ;)

The hunters I was talking about in the park went about it the wrong way though they have since been charged... I'm not saying anything bad about hunters I'm just saying I couldn't do it I'm not saying they're wrong to do it either... Everyone has different opinions...

LOL! this has gotten a bit off topic;)

I agree with twister and Glacier . We have seen too many starved deer here.
We eat bear and mtn. lion there is nothing wrong with it. and yes irt is better for you than commercailly raised meat.

I agree with both Twister and Glacier, too. Though I still think it is wrong to kill any animal for food, as long as you use every part and are not just doing it for sport that makes it a little better. Like twister said, atleast they lived in the wild and not in some dump at a factory farm.

I used to know someone who's dad hunted for sport. All he wanted were the dear head or antlers. He threw the rest in the garbage. Ick. Thats really wrong!

That's just awful! :(

...I'm a vegetarian, so you can tell how I feel about hunting.

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LOL! this has gotten a bit off topic;)

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No, I don't think it is off-topic whatsoever. You posted a thread stating that you think it is a "sin" to hunt a bear. All the responses in this thread have been directly related to hunting. Why do you think that is off-topic?

Off-topic? Or just not in agreement with you? Hmmmm......


Well, ok .... so my hitting-up on Glacier's 60 year old father-in-law probably wasn't on-topic .... ;)

Given the choice, I would much rather hunt my own food than buy it. But, with the restraints of "civilization" its pretty much imposible.

Why do people have to get into this arguement? Animals hunt animals for survival, are preditors evil?

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Animals hunt animals for survival, are preditors evil?

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You might think so, with some if the reactions I get when people find out that I'm a snake lover. :mad:

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You might think so, with some if the reactions I get when people find out that I'm a snake lover. :mad:

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Yeah, no kidding! I posted a thread in Pet General (as Im sure you recall) asking for some feeding advice for Salazar (my oh so cute ball python :D) and you'd think I was some sort of evil maniac! Sheesh. My snake is not evil for eating mice, thank you and Im not evil for feeding him the closest aproximation to his native diet.

A bit off topic, sorry.

Actually, feeding him gerbils or hamsters would be the absolute closest approximation of his wild diet.....wonder how the fuzzy-lovers would react to hearing that! ;) (NOT to say that I don't adore my fuzzies as well!)

My manager is out hunting right now...it was his birthday gift to himself....and he's going to have a venison cook-out when he gets back as his birthday party. I certainly don't think any less of him....