I am in full agreement with you.. both are cruel practices. The way I see it is that on the one hand two animals are placed in a confined space and forced to fight to death by their owners. Hunting I am told is more humane, the animal has a chance to escape (from a high powered rifle with a telescope and all kinds of lethal mod-cons). Then there are those that go the conservation route and use the magical phrase '; sustainable economic utilization of natural resources';. What everyone forgets is that animals feel pain, fear, hunger etc just like us. As more evolved beings we should be able to respect this, surely.
I have to laugh at these brave hunters that go all over the world to hunt for trophies - it is big business here in Africa. Little do they know that locally it is called ';canned hunting'; a game farmer will buy a prime specimen from elsewhere and release it in a remote camped area of his farm. The tourist hunter will then be taken out to ';hunt'; The trick here is to keep the hunter on the farm for as long as possible because he will spend huge amounts of money while he is there. As soon as his patience runs thin the farmer will take him to the remote camp where the animal is kept. He will be led to the animal (sometimes drugged so that the hunter will not be harmed). The hunter will then with great excitement and all the fanfare shoot the animal. Back at home he can tell all his beer swilling buddies the usual bs.
We have stooped to these levels as humans small wonder that society is falling apart. No compassion or respect for anything.What's the difference between dog-fighting and hunting for sport?
Genesis 9:1-3 ';...The fear and dread of you will fall upon all of the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you...';
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I understand where you're coming from but simply, dog fighting is illegal, and hunting isn't. In dog fighting, the dogs are forced into a cruel scenario where they fight against their will. In hunting, supposedly, there's a ';sporting'; chance for the quarry.
Where I live alot of people hunt deer and moose for the meat. You cannot buy it in a store. I do agree however to shoot an animal just for the fun of it or for a trophy to hang on your wall is cruel.
Good question. There is no difference. The French eat horse meat and we Brits think that's wrong. If you looked into it more deeply, it would probably involve 'class', but I don't think you have a class thing in the States do you, or, it maybe to do with dogs being deemed as pets. I guess I don't know the answer either !
Big difference. Clearly you have never been hunting. Many and most people hunt for food. In parts of North America deer are almost pests. If they weren't hunted they would be overpopulated, wind up in rural areas and cause more car wrecks then they already do.
Also with dog fighting (specifically with Mike Vick) the losers if they survive are tortured and electrocuted as punishment. You may be opposed to hunting but don't even try to compare the two.
Edit: So you would prefer meat from animals that have been given chemicals to grow faster, treated inhumanly, and came from god-knows where that you pick up in vacuumed sealed plastic at the supermarket, as opposed to free-range natural meat, especially for animals like turkey and deer? Hunting is for fun and necessity. You are pretty ignorant if you think people hunt only for a head on a wall. Far from it in fact. Also, would you prefer deer to become overpopulated to the point where the food supply becomes scarce and to die long painful deaths from starvation and cold in the winters of the upper midwest, or to be hit by a semi and left to rot on the side of the road??? Or would you rather have them be used for something useful like food??? Thats the reality of the situation.
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