Hunting for Food Vs. Hunting for Sport: Is it okay?

[Jaylock]

I've seen many differing opinions on this subject, and I would like to know, do you feel it is okay to hunt for food, hunt for sport, both, or neither?



Many of the people who hunt for sport, also take the meat home and use it to feed their families. Its just an added bonus to have a trophy like that mounted on your wall.



Thoughts?

[Stevecow]

I should be able to legally purchase heads of humans from unclaimed bodies and hang them on my wall.

[Deleted]

Any hunting where you will eat the animal regardless if for sport or if you are hunting for food is fine with me. I'd quite like to do a bit of hunting to catch game etc. then eat the meat as fresh as it can be. Folk who hunt animals only for the sake of trophies are scum.

[Garnier Fructis]

Hunting for sport is just fine in my book as long as you don't hunt a species to extinction. I would assume that's not a problem here in the U.S. though.

[Worgoblin]

The idea of hunting any living thing for "sport" is abhorrent.

[xylophone]

As long as you eat it, it is in legitimate need of culling or is a pest/varmint I have no problems.

[Deleted]

As long as you eat it, it is in legitimate need of culling or is a pest/varmint I have no problems.

Seconded.

While some in my family have hunted, i don't really feel the appeal of shooting for the sake of it; I've shot and eaten animals before, so if that lends bias to my view of this...

[theostrichsays]

I have zero issue with hunting animals for food if their population allows us to. Hunting animals for the purpose of getting a cool picture with it and then wasting the animal or hunting a species whose population is already in doubt, I'm not cool with.
I also dislike the concept that hunting a animal that is trusting of humans being a sport. It is not, hunting deer that hang out at your feeder is not a sport, or hunting lions that are use to human interaction and in some cases have been fed, is nothing close to a sport. I don't know we have "barrel hunts" in my area and for the life of me people paying a few hundred dollars to kill something that I could damn near pet is odd.
I'm sure somebody will say I am being a hypocrite but I grew up poor, I hunted boar with dogs and a knife or bow as a youth. I never once thought what I was doing was a sport, it was simply a means to help lower the families grocery bill.

[Hraklea]

I don't see any problem with hunting for sport.

[Ralikon]

I mean, you stated it yourself "many who hunt for sport, also use the meat to feed their families". I feel if you're using the meat and every part of the animal, how is it sport?

[Proser]

i hunt for both. Like most hunters when i hunt for sport, i donate my meat to the homeless so nothing is wasted.

[Rukentuts]

Depends on what's being hunted. Certain populations are low while certain ones are high and need to be controlled.

Things like rhinos shouldn't be hunted, while things like white tailed deer should be Bambi-blasted.

[GrinningMan]

'Mind your own damned business.'

It's an answer that isn't used enough.

[Shockzilla]

The picture looks doctored.

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'Mind your own damned business.'

It's an answer that isn't used enough.

I agree with this.

[Ayla]

How the hell can people consider shooting something "Sport". You want a real challenge, you should take it down in a knife fight. You with a knife vs Bear. Sure, put that fucker on your wall, you deserve it. Anything more, isn't sport. (Mind you, I do consider trophies to be disgusting, but in a knife fight..... yeah.... I'm impressed)

If you have to kill something to survive, sure, by all means do it. Other than that, I don't find it acceptable.

[xylophone]

The picture looks doctored.

He's doing the obligatory hunter photo pose where you sit behind it and stretch you arms out as far as you can, but Roosevelt Elk can get pretty big.

[Annoying]

I put both as fine. The way I see it, is that "hunting for food" is "I only hunt because that's how I get my food", which is fine. Whereas "hunting for sport" is "I hunt because I like to hunt, and I still eat the animal when It's said and done, but I could get my food another way", which is also fine.

The only not-fine thing would be "I hunt for sport, but don't eat the meat, I just like to kill things".

[Kuntantee]

I am not okay with people hunting for sport. If I was the one who make calls, I would ban it. If you want meat, go to butcher. If you want sport, go play football or something that does not involve killing.

[xylophone]

How the hell can people consider shooting something "Sport". You want a real challenge, you should take it down in a knife fight. You with a knife vs Bear. Sure, put that fucker on your wall, you deserve it. Anything more, isn't sport. (Mind you, I do consider trophies to be disgusting, but in a knife fight..... yeah.... I'm impressed)

If you have to kill something to survive, sure, by all means do it. Other than that, I don't find it acceptable.

Tell that to this guy.

http://youtu.be/bKh_13zOGFc

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If you want meat, go to butcher.

What's the difference?

[Gemini Sunrise]

Long as you are taking what you can eat, and actually do so, I'm fine with it either way.