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ladynlord -> RE: Go Daddy lets do sport killing (4/1/2011 2:22:07 PM)
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it's couched in "lets help farmers"
Funny thing was......... the local villagers stomped down more sorghum than the elephants did. But DesFIP was right, We favor the elephants and prize them. To the farmer it is just a big nuisance animal cutting into the food on his table.
The corn farmers around here put out feeders with CHEAPER soybeans to try to keep the white tail deer from eating the more expensive corn and destroying the cash crop. They encourage deer hunting to keep the population in check. We enjoy eating the venison so it works out well for the humans. I enjoy watching the deer feed and frolic, but I also find that back strap is GOOD, and illegal to purchase or sell in MY state unless you have a special license and business. If you want venison, you have to go out and get it the old fashioned way.
One man's majestic animal is another man's blight and pest, whether on the endangerd list or not. Like the bears that Des spoke of. I've watched black bears in the wild and found it fun and fascinating. But I don't eat bear meat, so I have no interest in killing one.
So the next question is...."Does killing and nuisance animal, and eating it, automatically make that a 'sport killing' as the Greedy titled the thread?" "Would it make any difference if the nuisance animal were trapped, brought to the slaughter house, killed with a hammer, then butchered?" Would you still define that as 'sport killing'?
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