I won’t be debating this, don’t bother.

  • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Hunting is not necessary, humans killed all the natural predators because we didn’t want them attacking livestock.
    If we stopped animal agriculture then natural predators could be allowed back.
    And we can use non-violent population control methods.

    Also, deer are straight up bred and released just so people can hunt them.

    Hunting is needless killing and cruel because we can easily thrive without.

    • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      1 year ago

      What do we do in the mean time? You know that eco-system recovery is a veeery long process. Also idk if that is another case of US-exceptionalism but that would be the first time I heard of the practice of breeding deer just to release them for hunting (not smth I know from continental europe)

      The model of requiring a license for hunting with a ~ a year of prior training (or some other proof of the necessary knowledge for those who grew up with it for example) and restricting it to certain times and species as long as we haven’t introduced natural predators again (which is not always viable, mind you) is a good model imo

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        1 year ago

        Animal agriculture will be gradually stopped till the problem is fixed.
        Sure in the meantime is gonna be a mess but that doesn’t make hunting ethical.

        I’m not American myself but yes I’ve heard it’s done in the US, I believe I’ve also heard of it done here in Denmark tho.

        No amount of prep, education or restrictions is gonna make needlessly killing others okay.