I don't agree with eating meat, but I know I'm a total minority there, so I won't even try to give my full opinion on that.

The way the animals are killed in a slaughter house is truly horrifying.

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Hunting just for sport/trophies is kind of silly. Haven't we already proven our dominion over animals many times over?
Now, that being said, you can hunt for trophies and use the meat/skin, too. Most people I know around here that hunt do that. It's liscenced and regulated, so I don't see a problem. Deer sausage is good.
Hunting is not inherently wrong. It's one of the basics of mankind. Man was around along time before farming was invented.

hahaha...damn...that was a bit weird...fixed now...

Killing elephant or rhinos for tusks is something that's been going on for centuries probably. And while I know it's wrong and am firmly against poaching I can't help but think it's something of a lost cause because
1) the area is too large for someone to always surveill the entire area.
2) most reserve parks for endgangered animals aren't always beneficial tot he animal. Sure it protects them from poachers but not from it's natural predators. Case in point, cheetahs are endangered and any found in the wild are quickly put on a reserve where they are hunted down by their predators and killed anyway.
3) these animals are gonna die one way or another.

And a lot of game animals (animals that are hunted) legally are overpopulating the area, so whether they're dead bodies are used or not doesn't matter because it's one less animal we have to worry about wandering ouside a forest, into a town, and then becoming roadkill.
Two years ago, I had a teacher late to work because he hit a deer. During that same year, a ton of other people had delays because of deer crossing raods in packs at one point. You have no idea what kind of danger that can cause. Deer hunting season was plentiful that year, to say the least

And if you guys are this much against killing animals unless you're making good use of them, I suppose yuo guys are also against zoos, aquariums and circuses as well.
Hunting an animal to kill it, is really no different than dirving an animal insane and then it just kills itself or poses a danger to itself, other ranimals and is then laid to rest as a result.

^ Hahah Fish are not mammals. They are in a different Kingdom. *see title* Besides aquariums are good for fish, they kinda don't get eaten =).

The New Jersey State Aquarium houes more than just fish. They have polar bears, seals, dolphins (i think) and as of recently hippos. None of these creatures are fish.
And to my knowledge sharks eat fish and any shark in any aquarium eats fish. So yeah fish kinda do get eaten.

^ LOl Your aquarium is dense. Ours Keepes the different levels of fish, seperate. Oh we do have penquins too.....=/.

Either way aquariums are home to more than just fish.
And the NJ aquarium is one of the more popular aquariums in my area. Unless New York has one I most likely don't know about.

Hunting is fine. Hunting for sport is dumb in my opinion but hunting for food is totally alright. The animals are just that. Animals. They have no soul. It's ok to kill them. As someone else mentioned earlier (forget who) FOOD CHAIN. That's the way it works. They die anyways. Plus God gave us the animals for food and said it's ok to eat them. But that's a whole different discussion.