AlexWhat is something society treats as normal that you secretly think is completely insane?
cabillaudHunting. I really don’t get how killing animals can be seen as a hobby like any others.
There are some states with an overpopulation of deer and the like and they atually heavily encourage hunting. The other side is that a lot of hunters like to know where their meat is from and how it is sourced.
I know quite a few hunters that only eat the meat the or friends have hunted and refuse to support factory farming. I know thats probably not the majority but it is more than you’d think. I was raised vegetarian and still am but i have trained to and gotten licensed to hunt in multiple states just in case.
There are definitely some folks just in it for the love of the game though. That and rare game hunting is insane to me. Some of the rare game resorts are really “ethical” and charge shit tons of money per kill and then donate that to conservation efforts but it still feels weird and like probably not the best conservation method lol
Where I live too, there are too many deers, but I suspect hunters to let it happen. If they really wanted to, that wouldn’t be a problem since a long time. And they lobby local authorities for they let it go, despite forestry people’s complaints.
Their meat is not even that good, or let’s say I wouldn’t like to eat deer meat all year long.
The over population isn’t natural around here. They are allowed to bait the hole. They feed the deer year round so they know where they will be when its time to kill them. I call them deer farmers.
Culling and preservation go hand in hand though