Hunters Are Stupid

Written by PETA

Posted 02-09-2007

80 Comments

And in the esteemed words of Forrest Gump . . . that’s all I have to say about that.

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Recent Comments

Sean commented:

2-20-2012 10:09 PM

Billy- I've seen multiple vegans use the excuse that nature takes care of its own, but by saying that do you realize how nature takes care of its own? It is important to note that either way, some animals will suffer. Essentially, what happens is populations of both predators and prey increase and decrease in an alternating fashion (when predators are increasing, prey is decreasing, and vice-versa). As predator populations are at their low & prey populations are at their high, predators have more food available. This is what triggers reverse in populations numbers between the two. However, it is not just predation that kills off the prey at this time: starvation due to high prey populations also occurs. These high populations can also cause prey to migrate in search of food, sometimes into places where they put themselves in danger, such as urban areas with lots of traffic. Starvation and getting hit by cars both tend to put animals in a lot of suffering. This same principle applies to when predator numbers are high and prey numbers are low: predators have less prey to eat, and it is inevitable that some will go days without food and starve. Or, they will migrate to new areas to attempt to find new food sources which can put them in danger too. Hunting helps to maintain a balance between the predator to prey ratio. This method greatly reduces starvation and helps lower habitat migration. As I stated before, either alternative includes some animals suffering, so I really don't understand how letting nature run its course can be considered a better alternative.
billy williams commented:

12-28-2011 2:55 PM

Actually ash,Hunting is not necessary to control population-Nature takes care of its own & hanging its head on a wall isn't "Restoring its beauty"--It's meant for people to always remember that they murdered an innocent animal,-The same way a serial killer will keep something belonging to their victim-It's just really disturbing & psychopathy if you ask me.
Ash commented:

12-1-2011 4:03 PM

Amazing how many of you are saying "Hunters are stupid" and how these "trophies" are disgusting. The ignorance just amuses me. And everyone's assumption that hunters are stupid is just stereotypical and downright offensive. Calling out things like that doesn't support your cause at all. In fact, it looks really childish. Though SPORT hunting isn't exactly something I find to be great (I prefer the whole animal be used if it is to be killed) hunting does indeed help not only the population but also CONSERVATION EFFORTS!!! Some of the money used to buy tags and licenses for animals goes to fund conservation efforts in order to preserve rainforests and your precious tigers and other endangered wildlife. And though taxidermy is a sensitive subject to most of you it seems (from the comments it seems as though most are disgusted with this), I bet none of you even know what kind of work goes in to it and what the taxidermist feels while recreating the animal. It is an art and yes it may kind of look bad to be doing it on animals that were killed, it's an art of bringing the animal back to life in a sense. Restoring its beauty the best way the artist can. The "trophy" part is its story, may it be gruesome to some of you, that's what it is.
Chukchi commented:

11-27-2011 12:16 AM

Hello, let me straighten this whole antihunting vs. prohunting mess. My ancestors are from the Chukchi Peninsula in Russia. As I know that many of you antihunting are vegetarians, you don't realize that some people can't live off of vegetarians because of their climate/geographical location. For example, my tribe in the Chukchi Peninsula cannot grow vegetables of any sort except for lichen and mosses, so we have to survive on hunting seals, whales, and walruses. You antihunting people think we hunters kill for fun, but we have skeet and target shooting for that. It isn't much fun to wait for hours at end in either the freezing cold or boiling heat just to shoot an animal. We hunters hunt to survive, and those who don't have to survive off of hunting don't need to buy meat because they have it from the animal they killed. But I know that some hunters don't respect the animals around them, but they will soon learn that they should from the hefty fine of exceeding the bag limit. Our tribe reveres animals, and only takes one whale a year, and uses every part of it to make tents and such. You vegetarians won't think that you are so superior to us when you learn that almost all plants harvested for food are invasive, chemically enhanced, and full of preservatives. While the animals we hunt can be invasive, don't have chemicals, and have no preservatives in them. Humans are made to survive off of animals. We were made to be hunters because of evolution.
PETA commented:

3-15-2011 4:59 PM

Mr. Dudeman, hunters often argue that they are “managing” wildlife, saving animals from death by starvation and disease. Natural predators help keep prey species strong by killing only sick and weak individuals. Hunters, on the other hand, kill whichever animals they come across or, in many cases, whichever animals they think would look best mounted above the fireplace—often large, healthy animals who are needed to keep populations strong. Moreover, hunting creates conditions that favor accelerated reproduction: The abrupt population decline that it causes leads to less competition for food among survivors, and ultimately, a higher birth rate, thus leading once more to the very problems that hunters claim to solve.
Josh commented:

2-28-2011 11:45 AM

I can understand not wanting to harm other animals. Even though I hunt myself, I can respect that way of thinking. I believe that it should be understood, however, how we have effected the ecosystems of some game species. Lets take whitetailed deer in the eastern United States for instance. In areas where the ground is at least somewhat fertile and weather permits, corn is grown in much of the east. Now, when the harvester comes around and gets the crop out of the field, it leaves a sizable portion of that corn on the ground. This extra amount of nutrients allows for larger populations of herbivorous animals in an area than what would naturally be the case. In the case of smaller animals like squirrels, mice, birds, etc. there are natural predators that can help keep populations in check, but in the instance of an animal the size of a whitetailed deer, things get a little hairy. Coyotes can prey on old, sick, and young deer, but fully grown and healthy specimens have no natural predators. So it is easy to see how a population could get out of hand. What happens when populations of large animals get too high? Well, the cosquence that directly effects humans is that there are increases in automobile accidents related to deer on the roads. The next consequence is that there becomes a greater risk of disease in the population, which will lead to a greater amount of suffering than any well placed bullet will cause. So, I think keeping an animal population in control is a good idea. Those animals live a free life in the wild and sometimes they are taken from the population and provide sustainence of other organisms.
Nick commented:

8-27-2010 12:14 AM

So lets say 5 of the population are hunters and 5 of the population are anti hunters 90 don't care. At least hunters are running out there and getting there own hands dirty rather than the other 90 who sit down and wait for Hormel foods to deliver the butchered animal to them. The commercial meat industry is the most hurtful not the hunters! True hunters don't raise their animals in cruelty and captivity and they don't pump animals full of steroids only to waste most of the edible meat anyways.
Jake commented:

6-9-2010 2:15 PM

If you think about it hunting saves lives. Its a proven fact that a certain ecosystem can only support so many animals. So if hunters dont kill a few dear every year there would be a massive fall off in the population.Because there wouldnt be enough food to feed all of them. "A healthy forest sometimes needs a controlled fire" some trees can only spread there seeds if set on fire
Deven Markley commented:

3-30-2010 10:32 PM

The Tyler Durden from Fight Club? The clinically insane anarchist who is the imaginary friend of the men who literally beats himself up in a parking lot and starts a club where men get together and fight? That sounds like a reliable source and a good name to post under...
Tyler Durden commented:

3-30-2010 1:53 AM

Overpopulated? Animals have been around for the better part of a billion years. They would overpopulate? We've driven thousands of species to extinction in the last century but they're going to overpopulate. Interesting. I love all of these "hunters with degrees" unable to discern 'your' from 'you're'. What's left? Oh yes they do it to eat. A Wendy's or Arby's on every corner and they're hungry? A gun costs more than a cheeseburger.

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