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In reply to the discussion: How trophy hunting in Texas became a multibillion-dollar industry [View all]Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)30. Well, regarding the animals I'll be killing in the fall:
the only nuisance animals are man.
Wild boar are an invasive species that cause $1.5 billion in damage every year.
Plenty of food in grocery stores everywhere.
Are you asserting that paying people to raise pigs to be slaughted is a superior moral choice to killing a wild boar and eating it?
Shooting a confined passive almost tame creature calls in alot of bad karma for me.
I go down to Texas, and upon seeing a wild boar, approach it.
"Um....Bob....you're getting a mite close to that boar. You better shoot it, and quick."
"No worries! The fence will keep him back."
"Um...there aren't any fences, this is a free range area, remember?"
"It's all right. Wild boar are passive, almost tame. I heard it on the internet, it must be true. Here, piggy, piggy! Who wants his ears scratched!"
"Bob, thiis is an extraordinarily bad idea."
"Worrywart. He's running my way, he must like me! Man, those are big tusks....AIEEEGETITOFFKILLITKILLITKILLIT!"
That's just my feelings when you post something about hunting you asked for everybody's feelings and those are mine.
No worries.
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How trophy hunting in Texas became a multibillion-dollar industry [View all]
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
OP
Quite so, but we want to stay somewhere nice on site and have the staff do all the real work.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#6
Why? Per Texas law, one cannot hunt endangered or even threatened species.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#8
It doesn't appear to me that the poster is opposed to boar hunting, but rather exotic animal hunting
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2021
#21
I think it's worth pointing out that none of these species are endangered or threatened.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#25
do I remember correctly that the Arabian Ibex was recovered from endangered status
Kali
Jun 2021
#26
I have no particular desire to do so, but as long as the animal isn't endangered or threatened and
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#34
I can't fathom the mind of a person who would pay good money to go to a Texas petting zoo to kill
Martin68
Jun 2021
#14
"Fair chase." I don't know why the definition of that is, but I suspect there's very little about
Martin68
Jun 2021
#19
The definition is not grounded in either science or ethics. It is a self-serving excuse to
Martin68
Jun 2021
#31
Actually, "fair chase" is a registered trademark of the Boone & Crockett Club. Be that as it may,
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#35
You don't quite understand. Hunters don't jump into their vehicles to catch up with their dogs. They
Martin68
Jun 2021
#39
mark, you seem to have very legalistic point of view. Some of us are more interested in ethics and
Martin68
Jul 2021
#47
You take the word for these places as "fair chase", fair chase is still enclosed and
MerryBlooms
Jun 2021
#40
There is, from what I've read, a real difference between the sorts of hunts described in the video
Dial H For Hero
Jul 2021
#43
Fair chase in my mind would be to take them on in hand to hoof/claw combat.
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2021
#22
We've been using ranged projectiles to hunt animals for at least 30,000 years.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#23
Of course we are not. I'm just saying what would be "FAIR" to both parties.
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2021
#33
Fair chase rules are designed to make it more challenging as is appropriate for a sporting activity.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#36