Reasons hunters hunt ANIMALS?!?

Well, at one time, we hunted for the same reason.

Look up Native American Indians and see how they respected the animals they had to hunt to survive.

Now, contrast this to the white man. I've seen them hunt deer and leave the body, taking only the antlers. There are even those who hunt to kill, leaving the animal to lay where it fell. This isn't even counting the white men who are so drunk that they shoot at anything moving. A few years back, one shot a horse from under a rider.

I would like to see a law passed where every game checking station requires a Breathalyzer test and an on duty officer to arrest those who are intoxicated, as well as officers to patrol and stop hunters who might be intoxicated. But, white men will never check white men.

I never meet any black or Asian hunters. Those I know that have come from countries where they still hunt for food and,they too, respect the game they take.

Today, though, it's not safe to hunt for food. In the US, the game is poisoned. Even the water where the fish live is toxic and too much of this meat will make you sick. Rabies is natural, but many ills are the result of the poisons that the government has allowed into the environment.

Animals don't hunt for fun. It's nature. They fight to mate or for food. Even a house cat or dog kills for a reason. Mice are natural game for them and part of their instinct.

Hunting is an important part of maintaining a balanced ecosystem. In places that aren't over run by humans, animals keep their own population numbers balanced. Lions hunt gazzel and keep the population size healthy. Animals like deer don't have enough natural predators and can easily become over populated. When there are no predators to take out deer their numbers grow and when there's too many deer, they over eat plants which is bad for us and other species, more deer also means more ticks and more tick born diseases like Lyme. There's also far more deer getting hit by cars. which can kill people as well as deer.

Hunters take the place of the natural predators and keep the population at a reasonable size. It's heavily regulated too. They don't allow for hunting does and only X amount of bucks a year, 1-3 depending on the year.

And perhaps the most important thing is fees paid for hunting licenses provide about 90% of conservation funds which allows game wardens to get paid, helps preserve protected areas, prevent poaching etc.

First, the days of fun or trophy hunting are about over.

Today, hunting is largely for food and licenses are issued for population control.

It is sad enough some animals are hunted for financial gains where most of the animal is left to rot.

Hunting goes back to the dawn of man, an food was the reason.

Personally, I would never kill any animal if I didn't intend to eat it, that includes fish, and never kill more than I need.

For some reason, I could never kill a deer. I have a very nice hunting rifle that never killed a thing.

Some hunters hunt for the same reasons animals do

Some hunters do it for sport

Some do it because they are assholes

Some do it to take out anger on a person also assholes

Some people do it because hunting people is illegal and they just want to kill something

I could go on but here's some examples

Plus if your a meat lover then I'm sure you would relieze that I'm sure you would do it to for survival and I love meat but I think we should kill cows in a human way not be assholes and slaughter/mutilate them but I'm still eating meat

If you were to drop the attitude of poor, poor animal, you would learn there's a science behind, food source, animal harvesting. State Game and Fish departments throughout the United States apply beneficial programs determined by biologists, and land habitat managers, to keep herds healthy, viable, and generational, meaning conditions that sustain life and promote reproduction. Hunters are critical to financing the Game and Fish Departments, and to pay for resources, including Game managers and Biologists, and habitat improvement and maintenance. I once witnessed the carcasses of nearly 1,000 white tail deer in southeastern Arizona mountains from heavy snowfall and cover for weeks. The herds were over populated for graising capacity, and near starvation made them so weak they couldn't sustain weather conditions. It was an extended negative weather pattern that caused their death, but had a third of them been food source hunted, the balance could have survived. If a person will not consider facts, but base their interpretations based in emotional consideration only, the animals suffer.

I know a lot of hunters, they all hunt for food. They like the taste and the fact the animals aren't farm raised. Personally, I really like venison.

Humans have been hunter/gatherers until recently, when farming was invented after the end of the last ice age. Even so, there are still some populations that still relied on hunting for meat. Humans eat meat because it is high calorie and nutritious, and since humans evolved in the African savanna, where there is very little plant food suitable for apes or ape-men (our ancestors), or humans. To this date, there are still some populations that still hunt and gather for food. You can say that hunting is therefore in our genes. So is jogging. Humans evolved to jog for long distances so as to tire prey animals out by making them sprint repeatedly. When an animal sprint, it also incurs lactic acid when its body cannot supply enough oxygen. It also generates a lot of heat when sprinting. The heat and the lactic acid eventually disables a prey animal because of sore and disabled muscles and because of heat stroke, so we can move in for the kill. Since we are not fast enough to outrun most animals, we have to use this technique.

Therefore it is no surprise that both jogging and hunting are some of the favorite past times of many people. It is in their genes. You may have heard of the term "runner's high." That is because it turns out that when people exercise, not just by running but by playing sports for example, their body increases the production of endorphins, and it gives their brain a pleasurable feeling. You may also have heard of the phrase "thrill of the hunt." That means people feels good when they go hunting.

Our body tends to reward activities that are beneficial to us by making us feel good when we do those things. Since jogging, exercising (to hunt or gather), and hunting gets our ancestors food, which helped them survive, it is therefore no surprise natural selection have favored genes that would reward these activities. It is therefore no surprise that many people still carry these genes, and they still find such activities pleasurable, even though we no longer need to hunt or gather to survive.

I understand if it's for food but I mean for fun as I stated.

Food.