A stupid, dumb, and wrong take like so many others from this account.
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The rural poor would suffer from this.
Op is probably ok with that given how openly contemptuous he is towards the rural poor
I mean the entire post is clearly reiterating he thinks they should fuck off and suffer.
Seems super productive and not in any way performative.
Counterpoint: whitetail deer are insanely overpopulated to the point that they’re spreading a prion disease.
Maybe running an industrial scale drive and cull on that population would be nicer than being confronted with the absurdity of hunting culture, but it would also be orders of magnitude more expensive and unpopular.
Most overpopulations of animals is due to their predators having been hunted to or near extinction for the sake of agriculture or other human interests. You're justifying exploiting them based on man made conditions. And that's not to mention government subsidized breeding programs to inflate populations for hunting seasons.
I'm not necessarily arguing against a solution, but be honest about the reason for the situation.
You’re right. Humans drove out the predators and created a new environment that makes their recovery to previous numbers and range impossible. People need to take responsibility for stewardship of the populations people have disrupted.
I’m only familiar with the breeding programs in my state and the neighboring ones, but they’re all pretty tightly conducted by experts in the field of wildlife management (which is not just a jumped up job title for hicks). I don’t doubt that in some weird states they don’t care if you selectively breed 38 point bucks that can’t carry their heads high enough to look out for predators and release em into the wild, but the few I know of have restrictions on that type of selection.
Reintroducing predator species seems less murdery
Probably not to the deer
I’m sure if the deer were able to express themselves clearly and understood the options they’d choose captive bolt gun over being eaten alive after running and fighting to exhaustion.
Reintroducing predators is also pretty universally disliked by the people who will eventually be in contact with them for good reason.
Bring back wolves!
This is only satire if the mods remove it
I think what you are getting to is trophy hunting is for the .
Shouldn't ban white people from ethically legally hunting for the sake of food. That should be everyone's right within a reasonable conservation limit. Thus the licenses. Yes trophy killing is excessive and can lead to population decline. Human's obsession is destroying wild habitat.
While I totally get , I think you're overdoing it a bit.
Hey, if there were less hunters, there'd be less unattended ammo cans left in the back of pickups for me to yoink
be careful, the firearms aspect of that could get a charge to contain words like "deadly weapon" and multiply itself into decades of prison, who knows
hunting should be allowed , not ranged weapons tho !
Think we are confusing trophy hunting for rich petite bougie peeps "look at the size of the racks on this buck!!!!", versus having a functional system that prioritizes native land rights and resource management as well as seasonal tags with specifics (i.e. so many doe, so many bucks, so many elderly) to keep populations from collapsing (deer island anyone?)
For me I did a lot of fishing with my folks and friends for lots of invasive species, mainly pike and carp (fucking hell fish that they are) which alongside good bounties for other invasives (new zealand mud snails) with geo taging their locations can actually lead to great participation with the local ecology, its just that most people view hunting as it is because it is a vanity project for the rich.
Also deer stands should be fucking illegal. You wanna hunt then get off your ass and track what you're after.
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