After reading the other debates I feel that some people are a little hypacritical when it comes to hunting, they say that they think no animal should be killed, but yet they eat meat. They think that life in the woods is better than being raised just to kill, but they think that people that hunt are sick because they kill animals. I personally think that if you think that hunting or killing animals is wrong then you have NO RIGHT to eat meat or use any animal byproduct, and I honestly will find it hard to believe that there is anyone that uses no animal byproduct. But, if I am wrong and there is someone on here please let me know. Also, I hope I did this poll right, it is my first one.

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hunting is different than killing farm raised animals, espeically trophy hunting where the meat often is not used, but killed to put on the wall of someone's home, and often the carcass is discarded. I've personally hunted, but also answered in the population control section that the only reason that we need things like hunting for population control is because of human expansion running animals off their lands, limiting land, and limiting food supplies by condensing the same amount of animals on smaller land with less food. I have hunted birds mostly, and only agree with large game hunting using bow and arrow (as my dh hunts)

I have no problem with hunting. I would personally probably never do it, but I don't see anything wrong with it when it is used for food.

[Banned-luvnallmyboys]

I agree with you. It has been bothering me since I read yesterday someone saying that if they had to hunt for meat they would become a vegetarian. I think it was the same person who said she would think the hunting aspect of your husband would make him not a nice person. (I may be wrong on that part). I think that is the most hypocritical statement I have heard in a long, long time, possibly ever. As I said in the last post, anyone who eats meat but is still concerned with animal welfare on the whole, as I am, would be pro-hunting over the meat industry.

[EmilysMommy04]

I am not ahunter but my dad is. He uses and eats all the meat. He gives some to me. I dont see the problem with hunting. On the other hnd I do fish. SO I must be heartless. But I eat what I catch

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i'd also rather eat meat caught from hunting than from the industry

[Banned-coughburp]

I LOVE deer meat, it's so delish! If that's wrong then I don't want to be right! Ah well, if it is wrong then I'll just be reincarnated into a deer.....

[karkli]

To clarify my votes, there are absolutely situations where I take issue with hunting. When carcasses are abandoned (not counting times when the animal cannot be tracked), or if the species is protected, for instance.

Under normal circumstances, though...Yes, yes, and yes.

I voted all yes's but I think trophy hunting is 100% wrong.

I would love to know who uses no animal byproducts, NONE, have you seen the list? My Mom's life was actually continued for a short time with a animal pyproduct.

[Xtine]

1. No I do not agree with hunting

2. No I do not eat meat

3. No I do not currently use any animal by-products, although I do own some leather that was given to me before I educated myself in that respect.

I only eat milk / cheese / yogurt etc. from a local farm that produces it humanely - the cows are free-roaming and grass-fed only. I pay about 3 times as much for it than I would if I bought from a grocery store.

I don't buy any products that are tested on animals. I don't eat gelatin. Et cetera.

There are lots of vegans on JM.

3. No I do not currently use any animal by-products, although I do own some leather that was given to me before I educated myself in that respect.

I only eat milk / cheese / yogurt etc. from a local farm that produces it humanely - the cows are free-roaming and grass-fed only. I pay about 3 times as much for it than I would if I bought from a grocery store.[/b]

Just not this one!

There are lots of vegans on JM.

Just not this one!
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I thought milk WAS an animal bi-product!

1. Yes. I don't disagree with hunting as long as is doesn't go to waste

2. No, sort of. I don't eat meat now because I have limited access to anything other than factory-farmed grocery store meat (which I am 100% dead-set against so I refuse to buy, serve or eat) or organic, humanely raised and slaughtered meat that is waaaay too expensive for us. Now, if I still lived back in New England it would be a different story because there was plenty of hunted or humanely raised and slaughtered meats available.

3. If you mean dairy, then yes. BUT I shop very selectively and won't buy a brand unless it is certified organic, was raised humanely and not kept perpetually pregnant. There are a lot of faker organics out there now, so sometimes I end up just having to buy soy products instead.

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Where I live in Texas, most people I know go in together and buy cows to be divided after slaughter for the families to eat on for the next 6-9months. while an animal still dies, its always from a local farmer, and not a meat industry type stockade. I didnt really know anything about the meat industry until I got older, because I didnt know it existed!

Where I live in Texas, most people I know go in together and buy cows to be divided after slaughter for the families to eat on for the next 6-9months. while an animal still dies, its always from a local farmer, and not a meat industry type stockade. I didnt really know anything about the meat industry until I got older, because I didnt know it existed![/b]

You're back in Texas!!!

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yayayayyayayayay
although I miss the midwest, and the location to so many areas, like CHICAGO! and Dc wasn't far for us either and we had a blast.. things are much farther when you live here!
but hey we have good cows! By the way I grew up on a cattle farm and we sold cows for the purpose that I wrote of above. we didnt sell to large industries and we survived financially just fine. I just thought its how everyone did it, and it really does save a ton of money in the long run

Oh, I don't doubt that there are vegans out there, but there are also those that keep saying how horrible it is, but they do eat some meat, or use some animal products.

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Here's why I eat meat:

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^ I agree with ahixon, there are so many that complain yet do not go animal free.. its all or nothing baby! you can't complain about animal treatment and then still use items because it makes your life easier!