Hunting - horrifying to see 12 year old girls and grown men slaughtering animals and feeling

[jcgoldie]

10. Trophy hunting is gross

But I don't think its quite right to lump all hunting together. I am a farmer and I do not allow hunting on my land, but I also teach high school and in this rural part of southern Illinois, hunting during deer season is a big family tradition. A lot of kids take off school for a day in deer season to hunt with their families. They almost always process the meat and they learn responsibility not disrespect for wildlife in my opinion. Without wolves and bears at the top of the chain, everything I have read suggests that these short deer seasons are an important wildlife management check on overpopulation of the species which would lead to starvation, habitat loss, and disease among the deer population.