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Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
Let's just say that I grew up in a hunting environment where things like venison, quail, duck, goose, chucker, pheasant, Hungarian partridge (hun) etc. were regularly on the dinner table.
So you grew up around someone who understood it. Well that's just...special.
I remember how we used to laugh at you city folk who would come out to the rural areas of WA State and pretty much shoot at anything that moved (usually cows and occasionally their fellow city slicker).
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Like all hunters, duck hunters are in it for the sport/recreation. If a person only wants the meat, they can go to a their local wild game/exotic animal retail store (found in most cities) or purchase the meat via the www.
Stop trying to move the goalposts. I've been clear about the varied joys of the hunt from the jump here. What I've spoken against and consistently spoken against is those who kill singularly for the pleasure of it, men like this trophy hunting doofus.
Yes, you have been very consistent with your bleeding heart liberal stance on trophy hunting, although you haven't established if Dr. Palmer (or any other hunter for that matter) was hunting for thrill of the kill or if he indeed does take the meat and enjoy that as well.
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And who decides if population control is necessary? (drum roll...)
The local game dept.
Same response. And I've been equally clear about the good of thinning an overpopulation or even protecting your animals from other animals. Again, my criticism is specific and you haven't begun to address it.
"Protecting your animals from other animals"? Do you liberals now have a animal protection patrol where you drive around and make certain that a hawk doesn't steal a sparrow out of it's nest?
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The question was "Is it unethical to use bait to draw your desired animal in so that you can hunt them?"
That's your question. I think I've been clear about what I think of people who bait animals that should be tracked. Can you tack a duck? It's different, just as fishing is different.
Dr. Palmer paid quite a bit of money from what I understand when he hired professional hunting guides. I'll hold off on judging their method of hunting until I know more about what really happened (your leftwing media has been known to blow things out of proportion).
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If you can come up with some type of evidence which shows what kind of baiting Dr. Palmer used while lion hunting, then we can find out if that was common practice amongst lion hunters or not.
Doesn't matter to me if it's common or not. Doesn't matter to me if most deer hunters bait (though they don't). Doesn't impact my point.
Your bleeding heart liberal/granola crunching/tree hugging point is noted.
