Okay, so we know I don't hide my adoration and love for animals - and I'm not just speaking about the domesticated kind. So of course, I have issues with hunting. Now, I know I will get some feedback on this one - how it is okay to hunt for food blah blah blah. How is it I eat cattle - blah blah blah. Well, to be honest, it wouldn't take much for me to be a vegan. While I cringe about the thoughts of a bullet piercing the heart of Bambi, I do understand that to each his own. There is always the argument that we need to thin out the herds to stop overpopulation and prevent starvation. My issue is that I don't see why the odds aren't a little more even. Although I live in Texas, people know I call this state hell and complain often that it is a backwoods state. When it comes to hunting, my view is no different.
It is bad enough that these hunters use high power scopes and rifles to lay out their prey. But, I draw the line with making them pets and THEN shooting them. There is a practice in this state that turns my stomach. Months before hunters go out, they start buying deer corn and putting it in feeders near the blinds. Each day they feed these deer around the same time. So when deer season opens, it doesn't take a mental genius to figure out that those deer will be right there waiting for their breakfast. Hunters sit in their deer blinds, with their high power rifles and scopes, their hot coffee and wait for their new pets to land in their sites and then BOOM! Now tell me - how is that hunting?!? How is that not stacking the odds? Seriously, talk about premeditated murder. You can find deer corn everywhere you can go around here - the grocery store, the gas station, the feedlot - wouldn't surprise me if they had it at the daycare too!
I think the odds should be a little more even. I would love to see a hunter have to actually track his prey and hey - if you can drop a 12 point buck with a hunting knife more power to you. But, don't insult my intelligence or the intelligence of those others who feel this practice is just barbaric at best. Don't call this "hunting". I don't think the native Americans used this technique - I don't even think our forefathers thought this would be how we "hunted". Now, I know, we have to account for advances in technology but just because something is possible (like human cloning) doesn't mean we should do it. I'm not a tree hugger and if you are going to use the meat instead of just using the head as a trophy that may be a little different but, this still isn't ethical. Just my thoughts...
xoxo
Pandora
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