"One day I'll own this boot slaughterhouse!"

It's more because white colonizers killed all the wolves, so deer don't have as many natural predators anymore.

Wolves were not native to all of north America at the time when settler colonialists came to America. Nor were they ever in the amount of numbers that could control the deer population by themselves. Deer were a staple protein of native American societies and were utilized as free grazing stock animals by the tribal people in the anterior of America.

It's pretty typical though that you would have heard someone "blame it on the indians" instead of the white settlers...

The native Americans developed the forest of America over thousands of years, and the overpopulation did not become a problem until the colonizers killed the actual predators who were namaging the deer population.... The native Americans.

The overpopulation got worse when white settlers expanded westward and killed off wolf populations as wolves were the only predators left to help moderate some of the overpopulation. However the real damage had already been done generations before when disease cut through the native American populations.

TIL, thank you. Then controlled/regulated hunting it is!

We had red wolves throughout the south. The northeast had timber wolves. Not to mention puma. Deer had predators everywhere they exist.

I see, so I was thinking of two different diseases.

How do people who eat venison avoid prions?

Have you... Have you read the tumblr post you are commenting under? It is about feeding meat substitutes to animals... And the top level comment I was replying to is saying "that's not how ecosystems work"...

Also, I never said vegans want to make wild animals vegan. If you didn't say I was antivegan I would have never mentioned vegans in the first place. I am not against vegans as I have already said literally one comment ago. I am under a post about feeding meat substitutes to predators, making fun of people who think we should feed meat substitutes to predators.

No one thinks...

This is just factually wrong. Many people (often religious, but not necessarily and from various religions, not mostly, just often) base their view of the world on that idea. They probably won't say it out loud like that. We call people with this kind of ideas "conservatives" but of course that's not the whole thing, not all conservatives believe that, and it's not just about that, I'm making a very loose statement here.

I will stop commenting about the sexist part, honestly if after I explained everything of what I said you still don't get it, that's on you.

Edit: before you comment (because I know you will) when I wrote "[...] go eat vegan, but don't tell me [...]" that is not saying that vegans say animals should be vegans. That is addressed to you specifically, who are lecturing me that I'm anti-vegan for making fun of people who think we should feed meat substitutes to animals.