Originally posted by wolfsoul
So what you're saying is, you would rather let that entire herd die from natural causes, than let some of them be hunted?
A herd of any animal usually won't stay behind for just one of it's members. They aren't going to sacrafice the masses for one. They let nature takes it's course and if that one can't keep up, the rest of the herd keeps moving. If hunters really do pick off the sickly ones to "put them out of their misery", then a meal was just taken away from the predatory animals who depend on the sickly ones to survive, leaving them to wander on to farms and kill pinned farm animals, which in turn pisses off the farmers who demand that the predators be killed. So who really benefits from hunting here? Here in America you can only hunt a certain amount of deer per season, so hunters aren't going to waste that opportunity or amo to put a sick animal out of it's misery.

Like I said before, nature was doing fine on it's own, before humans came on the scene.