Now, in the perfect world, humans would be vegetarians and couldn't even imagine eating another creature, nevertheless hurting one and animals would skip happily along, left alone to live.

But it isn't a perfect world. We're omnivores. We hunt. We eat. We kill.


SO I wanted to know, what's your opinion on hunting?


Before you post here; I know everybody wants to save the helpless animals, but keep in mind that hunting is not always murder, even hunting for sport and to watch what you say, it could seriously offend some people.

What do you think of hunting?


I think that hunting for food, is perfectly acceptable and that I could never really see myself having a problem with that. If you need to hunt say... deer for food, and you do then that's good as long as they're in season and you're allowed to hunt them. If you're lost in the woods, starving, I say to save yourself you could kill any animal you have to kill to survive, endangered, threatened, whatever.

But, if it isn't an emergency where you will die very soon if you don't kill said animal, I know you should never kill an animal out of season or, heaven forbid, on an endangered or threatened species list. They have, believe it or not, specific seasons for hunting things for a reason other than to annoy hunters >.>.

The types of hunting I think are just cowardly? Anything that the hunter is guaranteed to win. Some people will lock up, say a lion, in an environment where it can't escape and the hunter will be sure to win. That's cowardly. If you're going to stalk through the woods with a bow and arrows, or a gun and you'Re hunting for sport, you are actually working to get that kill, not walking up to a cage with a machine gun. You've got to actually have knowledge to really hunt, not just poach endangered animals. Killing something in a cage and bringing back the head is just sad.

I also don't agree with most snares. Most of them that I have heard of just leave an animal to die very painfully. I Would also like to mention that at the same time, while I think hunting for food is acceptable, it isn't exactly a good thing to do.

For those who think this (out in the woods, could have brought food but instead):

someone goes out into the woods, *BAM* shoots a dear. Everyone is all happy, “Oh yea, we eating good tonight.” or that it is okay to shoot animals because they cannot speak English and are animals.

This is what I would say to that:

No, animals have a reason to live, just because they cannot talk does not mean they do not have the right to live. Maybe they are thinking of us the same way, but they cannot do much. Hunting is not fair at all; killing poor little animals who wander around the forest get shots. Yes, most animals that get killed have children and they are trying to take care of there baby’s and you guys want to go out there and shoot them. What if someone shoots your mom, that will be a miserable thing, and the animals could be feeling the same way. Animals do cry you know, but they do not do it like us. We are Animals, so why there is a rule were we cannot shoot each other? Everyone is part animal but they do not care because the other animals do not talk. I am sure if they could talk no one will shoot them

So basically I am kinda at a standstill on hunting. I think it is only right depending on the circumstances. Well, maybe I should wrap my wall of text up by simply saying this:

What do you think, remember, try not to offend anybody.

Of course hunting is pretty much necessary for humans to survive in present times, but the way we go about it is wrong. I really don't think shooting an innocent creature is being "humane." People were given increased knowledge over other creatures, so we should use it instead of mindlessly killing off living things.

I think that hunting for sport should NOT be permissible. Doing such is sort of like spraying graffiti on a wall. It's only purpose is to harm others for one's own short lived pleasure. Honestly, there are better ways to spend your time that would be more pleasurable and more productive than taking the precious life of something.

Hunting for game is fine, just use what you killed in a way other than mounting it/stuffing it, and don't hunt endangered animals.

Well there is a saying: "there is always a hunter and always a prey" it is true it is in our nature to kill FOR FOOD. I don't agree with people who just kill animals helples or not, just for there fur, I hate those hunters who kill just for the fur. mostly they are illigal persons working. back: loins kill zebras for food, they eat the grassy remains from the stumoch BUT they cant live from grass alone they will need meat to survive did you think about that neo?

When we were cavemen we hunted animals, why can't we now? It's human nature to hunt for food, and we need meat for protein. Those vegetarian-friends protein foods are great, but it's normal for one species to hunt another. You don't go around stopping bears eating rabbits, do you?

Hunting for a game though, that's just cruel. 'Nuff said.

Here's what I "believe."
Survival of the fittest *****es.
Survival of the fittest.

Its life, you've got to take one away to help yourself. That's the way it should be, regardless of how immoral or "evil" it might sound, but it really pays off. If I see an innocent rabbit in the forest, and I am like starving and ran out of food but I've got a knife, will I starve myself to death? Hell no. I'm gonna catch that rabbit and kill it, then roast it up and make me some rabbit soup. This is the same concept animals do, and we're the closest thing to animals, so we do the same too.

Boy, I love killing things to survive.
The thing is, we HAVE to eat these things to survive. The worlds just a ****ed up place when you have to kill a family to eat.
We're the est darn animal ever!

*bad dr.suess pun*
So, heres a nice little debatable topic.
do you think animals should be eaten?
personally I think if we werent supposed to eat them we phisically wouldent be able to, though thats just what i think.

Well, Unless there is some other food source that provides the same nutrition and good taste as meat, then no we shouldn't. I know there's vegitarion options, but not only are those not very good tasting, vegitarians aren't as healthy as you think because they aren't getting a diet of meat with their diet of vegatables, etc.
Also, survival of the fittest.

Well, it depends on the person and also sometimes religion like the Hindu cause they can't eat cows cause there like god or something i need to catch up on my hinduism hahaha., And jews can't eat pork and their food needs to be kosher hense kosher salt.
But how do you make meat kosher? but most people in the world love meat!!

God put animals on earth for humans to eat so I see no problem in eating them. Besides, they taste amazing.

Well, there's more to this debate for me: although it would bankrupt my parents to follow these practices right now, I do take much offense to traditional slaughtering; Kosher is the way to go. Additionally, we have to eat /some/ life so survive, be it animals or plants.

They are tasty. I have to eat them. Also, I think eating these animals keep the nature balanced.

I don't like the idea of slaughtering or killing animals. However, at the same time, if an animal that is a carnivore was hungry and you were the only thing walking around, would it ask you if it could eat you? No... it would try its chances and begin its hunt. So, I see no problem with eating animals. I mean, humans are animals as well.

It is quite funny in my opinion. How humans are animals and when we're eaten by another animal like a Wolf, Bear, Lion, Tiger, etc... people start going balistic. Yet, when we attack those same animals and eat them, people feel it is alright? I am sure that same wolf, bear, tiger, lion, etc... had children, or other family as well so it's not appropriate for us to say, "well, John had a son and a daughter but was eaten so this is an outrage." No, the world doesn't work in that way. Hopefully, that last part will be easy for everyone to understand and not sound confusing. ;P

well, humans arent really on a lion's diet plan.

We shouldn't eat animals.How would we feel if animals eat US?
Animals are friend,not food...

I think eating animals is fine, as long as they aren't alive when you eat them. Make sure they are dead first, and make sure they died as quickly as possible.
That being said, I can't stand to eat anything that even looks like it came off of an animal (like stake--you can see the individual muscle fibers, tendons, fat tissue, etc). Ground beef is pretty much my limit, though bacon and fried chicken don't seem to bother me for some reason.

In the words of Mufasa:

"The antelope eat the grass, and we eat the antelope. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. So you see, we are all connected...in the great circle of life."

So no, I don't think eating animals is necessarily bad, as it provides some nutrients that vegetable can't. Plus the Mighty Tsutaaja says they taste awesome!

That said, it's in our body chemistry to eat meat. It's how we get much of our needed nutrients.

yes we are the "Highest" on the food chain.

I think we should not eat meat, because the main problem is that how animals are killed.
We should progressively change our eating styles and food supplies, for example, more humane killings of animals, or even, combining plant and animal genes to create beef-growing plants.

As a Native American, I can claim to have actually ran up to a hooved animal and stabbing it in the neck before it ran off. I ate this beast when it bled to death.

We need meat to live. Without it, we degenerate into whiny liberals who drive Prius' and buy Macbooks.

I'll take a quad-stacker, plz.

I guess so otherwise we wouldn't have any meat

I don't 100% like the idea, but then again, like Jad said "Survival of the fittest". I'll leave it at that.

It's the CIRRRRRRRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE, and other animals eat other animals, how we get our nutrients is by eating other life forms. It's a bit gruesome, but It's how this crazy world of ours works.

To survive yes, without protein you would be completely nothing, (I know your come-back will be "Meat isn't the only thing that give's you protein", ok yes your right about that, but still eating plant's.....that would be outrageous (it's over 9000!!!!!) XD

Plants are delicious only when served to the side of a ham steak or teriyaki chicken. Hell, I don't touch veggies unless it's with meat first. :l

I live on bacon, ham, and chicken. Everything else is just side-dishes.

"I came across a vegetarian one day, and he said to me, 'why do you eat helpless animals? What have they ever done to you?' Well, I told him this. 'You ever heard of Global Warming? Well, do you know what It's caused by? Cows. Cows Fart and let methane gas into the air which eats away at the ozone layer and making the earth warmer. And the only thing countering this is oxygen let off by plants, so look at this, remember those Polar bears? Well I'm eating what's killing them, and you're eating what's saving them.'"

-- Carlos Mencia

I like the idea that I am eating something that was alive at one point in time, and is now dead JUST so I can eat something. They are like... bad models, which must be recycled into humans. We are the process of elimination for them, and if they die, for us to gain food, then that is there purpose, to live, and die again.

No matter what lifestyle choice you make these days, you almost invariably support a company, product, or service which was created at the expense of animals' lives. You would likely have to live an Amish lifestyle in order to achieve some semblance of this position of not killing animals, and even then this isn't exactly true since being Amish doesn't preclude you from eating meat.

So yes, an Amish vegetarian who eats nothing but celery or something. That's what your future looks like for you.

Of course, then what about plants? They're living things too, so we shouldn't harm them either right? The logical extreme leads one to say that the only way to prevent your causing harm to any other living thing is to just kill yourself.

Mm, lemme jump in on this.

My belief is that God put animals on the earth to be eaten, both by animals and by humans. There isn't a problem with eating them. You probably eat them when you don't notice. We were pretty much made to eat them. And, where would we get protien and other essential nutrients without meat?

We are thieves by nature, as are all non-producers. We cannot syntethize our own organic compounds, so we have to steal them from other lifeforms, be they plants or animals. The act of stealing these compounds kills said lifeform. Failing to partake in this activity results in starvation and death. I don't believe it's our place to argue what we are, and I believe that if we have four sharp teeth in our mouth, they're there for a reason. I also don't believe man-made morality of recent centuries has any say to a pace set by nature for hundreds of millions of years.

I think we as omnivores, should hunt. Just like other meat eating animals hunt. As for hunting for sport though, I wouldn't do it. If you kill it, eat it.

As long as you don't waste the whole thing (ie, either taxidermy or whatnot), I'm okay with it.

We need meat. I'm perfectly fine with people who kill animals and sell the food or eat it themselves. I haven't got the heart to do it myself, but I do love meat, so I just eat it without thinking of what it is. it's not that I think it's acceptable, per say, but I do know that it's pretty necessary. I'd love to be a vegetarian, but if I couldn't have bacon, or chicken, or burgers, I don't know what I'd do.

Hunting for game, however, is just pitiful and morally reprehensible in every way I can think of. Would you want someone to shoot your father, stuff his head, and hang it over their fireplace? Absolutely not! Killing animals is no different than killing humans in my eyes.

They would do it to us given the opportunity (in fact they sometimes do). Hunt to survive is what animals do, even humans. It's the circle of life. I feel as long as the hunting is humane ( as long as it's an instant death no suffering) its fine.

Hunting as a sport is utterly deplorable to me; regardless of the acknowledge one gets from their peers, taking a life for the sake of such a thing is unforgivable. Even though we have superior intellectual abilities, other animals`lives are worth just as much as ours. I understand that human carnivorous consumption results in hunting, but hunting occurs between animals regardless. I`m not saying I`m really for hunting, even so-humans can survive as vegetarians. But at the very least, hunting should be kept to an absolute minimum, only enough to support our species. Though, vegetarianism could in fact benefit the entire planet. Human beings, having such a great ability for higher thinking, disrupt the flow of predation. We`re the biggest predators on earth, and with the constantly increasing number of human beings, our hunting activity will eventually disrupt the food chains of many other species. Vegetarianism seems inevitable, at some point.

Pretty much what everybody else has said.. I only agree with hunting if it's for food/clothing/survival/etc.
Hunting just for sport, or any other equally stupid reason is just.. stupid.

Hunting is fine. However, misusing the privelige to hunt isn't okay. I mean, you can't just go shoot somthing and leave it. You take it and you eat it. You don't kill for sport. You kill to eat. You don't kill endangered animals. You leave them be so their are hopes of repopulation, and some day, not be endangered. You only hunt animals to eat their meat, (referring to a deer here) not take the antlers and leave the rest. So if you really don't misuse the privellege of hunting, it's okay

I think taking the antlers/head/what have you is fine, as long as you still eat the rest.

Society has become so detached that we no longer identify meat for what it is. It was once another living thing. Living things will kill other living things. Not everything will kill simply for food, many animals do it for sport. That's nature and we are not above it. The problem is that humans are extremely good at killing things to the point we need limits.

Hunting and gathering is what built up our civilization until agriculture and animal husbandry were introduced. Is it sad that something may die? Perhaps, but it will happen whether or not humans were around. Many predators will kill another creature for the fun it and not for sustenance. This is not the point, however. The fact this is being debated shows that civilization can find killing for fun deplorable and this sets us aside from other species. My viewpoint is neutral on the issue of hunting for sport.

If one is hunting their own meal, is it a very primal experience. They are aware another life was taken so theirs could eat. There is little difference between going to the grocery for beef or shooting deer, short of the methods obtaining it.

Hunting debate has been merged with this one due to similar subject material.

Duh.. But not dogs or someother animals, cuz that is ****ed up.

Yes, but thats just messed up, and I agree with my cousin. I don't think I would like to eat my pet..

Eating a wild dog isn't the same as eating your pet, though.

I'm talking about like, the animals that you would have for house pets. Dogs,Cats, etc.

So we're on the hunting debate?

Livestock. Problem, 2nd Amendment? (Really the only thing allowing hunting for sport is the 2nd Amendment which is why most hunters are Republicans. [/blatantfallacizedgeneralization)

I'm more on the side of eat any wild animal. Protect our domesticated animals.

Exactly. Just protect the animals that you would keep as a pet. But honestly, I hate hunting, but I would eat hunted food, just not if I saw it being hunted.

I'd prefer eating domesticated animals, really. At least then I know what's been fed to them and how healthy they are. But I don't want meat from a cow who's been wading in her own manure most of her life, I want free range.



Also here's an unserious comment but so did lite and he's an admin so I guess it's ok: If God didn't want us eating meat, why did he make it so delicious?

"If sugar is bad for you, how come Jesus made it taste so good?"

Phantom, are you talking about domesticated animals, or is it more of a species-by-species thing? Plenty of people keep fish as pets, but plenty of people eat fish.

Like the species that you would keep as pets. Like would you eat A goldfish? I wouldnt.

Like I would eat anything. But if I look at my pet it doesn't look like it would be my main course. Have common sense you wouldn't eat your friend. Your pet is your friend.

Fun fact: People eat dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc.

I probably would. Meat is meat. I wouldn't eat MY dog, since it's my friend, but I would eat a dog I've never met before. (P.S. I don't have a dog this is hypothetical)

I wouldn't even mind eating a human if it wasn't considered a one-way ticket to Hell.

Eating meat has always been around and unless every carnivorous creature evolves in such a way that they only need plants or fruit to survive then there isn't much that can be done. However, you still need to eat what you can to survive which can sometimes even mean turning to another source of food that natures not intended. This can be seen in other species (rare or otherwise).

Personally, I have no trouble with it as long as the animal is humanely killed with good reason. Good reason meaning that it can actually feed something and isn't just for fun and waste. For example when I die, I want my body to go to science or donors. For an animal, if the body is eaten or put to some use other than a heartbreaking trophy then fair enough. The only time I get sorely annoyed is if the animal is hunted to near extinction.

Sometimes, i think animals should eat us... We eat them, so yeah.

Eating animals is a part of nature. Now this does not mean I agree with killing them for sport. I believe that (and this is just something my dad taught me) if you are going to kill something, you are going to eat it.