Do You Agree With Deer Hunting?????

[Pam]

I personally would never want to hunt or have a close relative (husband, son, etc.) who hunted, although I know lots of people who do. The husband of my good friend goes deer hunting all the time and they do eat the deer meat. I just don't understand the need since we all live near supermarkets.

[BC_MoM]

I personally would never hunt, but hunting is OK in my opinion. It helps balance populations of different animals so one doesn't starve because of overpopulation, etc.

[Karen]

As I have said before, we need people to hunt deer. This is actually becoming a huge problem uin some areas, because no one "wants to shoot Bambi," but it needs to be done. We have destroyed the balance of nature by eliminating most of the deer population's natural predators. With previous centuries "bounty" on wolves and other predators, there are none or very few left, not enough to keep the burgeoning deer population in check. The deer are wreaking ecological havok on some of our forests, destorying habitat for other species because of their overpopulation. And if we do not keep the deer population down by hunting, they will overpopulate and die of starvation.

Have you ever seen a deer dead from starvation lying on the side of the road? I have. Have you ever seen a skeletal deer licking road salt from the edge of the highway? I have.

What is kinder, a quick death by a hunter's hand, or long, slow, painful starvation of deer and other creatures whose habitat they have altered?

I am not a hunter, myself, but I respect the people who do hunt, and know it needs to be done.