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From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP (Carl W. Amport)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Killing Bambi?
Message-ID: <753@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 17:49:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 17:49:38 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Dec-83 01:21:43 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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>	The question is not whether killing animals is acceptable,
>but whether it acceptable to kill animals for fun.  The average hunter
>is not out there to feed his family (irregardless of whether he eats
>his kill),  he is blowing away Bambi for personal thrills.	Peter Moore

Peter, I suggest you read "The Deer of North America," by Leonard Lee Rue III.
It is non-fiction and describes real animals, unlike the fictional Bambi.

I enjoy hunting, regardless of my success.  Killing is the end result of the
hunt, it signifies knowledge of the quarry and its habitat.   YOUR average
hunter must be the result of a little publicized survey.  I believe hunters
do consume what they have killed.  It is illegal to not retrieve a downed
animal.  I consider venison, pheasant, ducks, geese, elk, and most other wild
meats as superior to domestic livestock.

Deer hunting is a necessity in the United States.   It is a successful tool
of game management.  It keeps deer herds at stable and healthy numbers and
not only do hunters pay for it, but the taxes and license fees we pay help
set aside land or water areas as wild habitat.   The cost of land and wildlife
management would be unacceptable if put on the already burdened general public.
I believe that hunters care much more about wildlife than non-hunters - this
point of view comes from the fact that hunters contribute much more money to
help wildlife than non-hunters would like to admit.  (I have numbers at home
if anyone would like me to put them on the net.)  Hunters also have much more
to lose if wildlife is not managed properly.   Yes, there are exceptions on
both sides!  I would love to eliminate people who are bad examples and somehow
pretend and call themselves hunters!  But hunting is good for the species that
are hunted, the species that share the environment, the people who really enjoy
hunting, the people who enjoy the outdoors, and even the people who don't enjoy
seeing wildlife because those people are spared much of the burden of wildlife
management.

Carl W. Amport		Naperville, IL.		ihuxm!cwa