Killing animals for sport

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white man an in particular the anglo-American has hunted for pleasure. They nearly brought the bison to extinction, but that was also politically motivated, as the native Americans saw in the bison a holy creature that provided them with his skin, pelt, fat and what else.
Of wolves we know that it was never proven that they are actually dangerous predators. The occasional lamb that is killed by wolves doesn not justify the killing and the farmers nowadays get a reimbursement for each sheep killed, yet they still want to kill the recently introduced 4000 grey wolves back into the Yellowstone park.

Farmers in the Pyrenees in France and Spain are also against reintroducing wildlife like wolves, but it has been done anyways.

Civilised man is dangerous to wildlife. He is a mutant. Civilised man does not appreciate wild animals, everything he touches he domesticated including himself!

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I hope your trying to be sarcastic because it has been proven animals such as the polar bears are dying out because of global warming.

I'm not being sarcastic because i don't think Global Warming exists, its just something the government made up to get more money from the people. And its got everyone hook, line, and sinkered my personal opinion.

You obviously know nothing about ANWR. It wouldn't harm the caribou population in a noticable way. As a matter of fact, caribou populations have increased during past drilling operations.

Also, the ANWR drilling site/s wouldn't cover much surface area at all, as drilling technology is much more advanced. They can now drill in many directions from one spot, meaning they can take up much less space and get much more oil than they used to. So the ANWR site would be too small to really make much of a difference. That land is all tundra anyway, have you actually SEEN ANWR? There aren't Caribou every 2 feet. The land is so large the caribou would have no problem at all having an oil drilling operation with very little surface area in the same GIGANTIC area they live in.

The ANWR drilling sites would be on the coastal plain, which is where the caribou go to escape the clouds of mosquitoes inland. The coastal breezes keep the mosquitoes off. Each caribou can lose 8 ounces of blood a day due to millions of mosquito bites, without that refuge. Caribou are very skittish when they are calving, and the reason they go to that area of ANWR is specifically to calve. If you have any peer-reviewed data showing that calving caribou have no problem hanging out around oil derricks with huge trucks driving all over the place, I'd be very interested to see it.

@ Xercies, Wrt. global warming: 'so the government can get money out of us?' How do you figure that? If anything, driving a more fuel-efficient car and reducing my electricity usage *saves* me money.

anyway, whether or not you blame it on global climate change, the sea ice on which the polar bears depend is vanishing. It is already at the second lowest level on record, and it's only the middle of summer.

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I got my first rifle for my 10th birthday. Of course that was only after I proved my safe handling skills with a Red Ryder first.

your av. is apparently appropriate.

People who kill for pleasure scare me. Of course, I'm not against hunting for people who truly need the food or fur from the animals, but enjoying taking down a beautiful creature like a deer seems barbaric to me. What is impressive about being able to hurt something helpless because you have a high powered rifle? It's pathetic - like picking on a child. I'm also very creeped out by taxidermy, and I can't stand when people mount animals heads on the walls - it's just disturbing. I feel the same way about people who enjoy things like war - it's one thing to join the military out of concern for your country and a desire to help the world; it's another to join because you enjoy killing people, even if many of the people deserve it.

It's funny how imaginative some are here. Hunting deer is NOTHING like killing children, homicide, sign of sociapathy, and does NOT indicate a hate of nature. It seems there are some ignorants here who prefer to imagine things untrue rather than taking close looks at these pastimes as something other than hateful. Meet a hunter or fisherman before casting judgement y'all.

BTW, I acknowledge the fact that there are problems in regards to overhunting/fishing and the fact that poachers are leeches. However, some comments here really bug me, and distract from some of the real problems, and are plain arrogant/ignorant.

Wrong wrong!
Scientist have discovered that fish do feel pain and yes they do feel the hook coming and coming out...so be a sports and don't practice fishing as a sport.

-JR, you've already proven how ignorant you are, so Shut Up!

Yes ma'am!

You're just too funny, funny Man!

*snort*

That would be expected coming from you...Step on my toes and I will be inclined to step on yours in return. Stalk me in posts, as some have done, and the same may also be returned. Go ahead and try, but I won't be anyone's victim.

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I used to be obsessed with fishing in high school; I've killed my fair share, and then some. It's hypocritical of myself to feel bad at this if I don't feel bad for the fish I eat from the grocery store.

I'm of the mindset, if you kill something, you eat it.

I like hunting animals, but I use my camera instead of my bow, as I don't need to kill them to survive; I go to the grocery store.