General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Had a nice day deer hunting in Maine today. Last day for regular season. A big Maine tradition. [View all]if we humans weren't killing off and preventing the predator population from balancing out the herds (this is done basically to give hunters something to kill and DNR and F&G management usually figures that allowing large herd sizes to be maintained for this purpose because, well ...$$$!) there wouldn't be an actual "need" for the killing of wildlife. That and we humans could slow down our baby making rituals...
All the rest is rhetoric posed for one special interest over another and usually the root of the issue is about $$$. (and for those who use the "tradition" argument, it's because of generations of the $$$ tradition.)
If you want to enjoy being out in the woods, just f'ing GO out in the woods, you don't need a gun or the pretext of killing something for food. If you're concerned about organic meat then why not use that pent up wanna-kill-something energy on changing the culture of corporate rule so we can all have organic meat and other foods?