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Originally posted by Danny:
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Originally posted by Captain Sammitch:
It's extremely difficult to die from a lack of sport.
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Originally posted by Sonhaven:
So....hunting is dangerous therefore out law it....along with bungy-jumping, skydiving, or any other extreme sport you can think of.
What Sammitch meant was that you need to eat to live, but you don't need to murder to live. Hence, difficult to die from a lack of sport. Hunting being dangerous never came into it.


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Originally posted by Sonhaven:
What the difference between callously killing an animal for sport and eating a Big Mac with out giving a thought about where it came from?

In both instances an animal was killed for personal enjoyment.
Who eats solely for personal enjoyment?

Human beings need to eat to live. An animal dying so that people can survive and the life cycle continue is one thing. It's the way nature's worked since just about the beginning of everything. Nobody takes pleasure in the killing of the animal, but it's necessary.

An animal dying out of nothing more than sport is an entirely different thing. If marksmanship is your sport, then head down to a shooting range, or find yourself some tin cans.
I've enjoyed your posts on this thread, Danny, but I just wanted to clear up what you said about it being "necessary" for people to kill animals for food. That actually isn't true at all--- we do NOT need to kill animals for food. Human beings can get MORE than adequete nutrition fom a completely plant-based diet. In fact, many leading nutritionists feel that a plant-based diet is superior to a diet containing animal flesh and it's by-products. (And it's no secret that a diet heavy in animal fat has been conclusively linked to heart disease and certain cancers.)

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* As far as the overpopulation/starvation of deer goes, that situation could be handled fairly easily by seperating the deer into two control groups: some of the deer could be sterilized and some could be allowed to continue breeding. Just attach a different colored "tag" on each deer from the two seperate groups and VOILA! A very organized, handy, and humane system for population control. They have already been using a similar system in Australia for Koalas.