[brogrammer5]

What about hunting for meat as a method to responsibly manage deer populations for example? Austin, Texas is having a huge wild boar population explosion because the county instituted a no-kill policy. Also, hunting is a big part of some cultures. Why does one person outside that culture get to decide that's wrong?

[thefounder]

People don't hunt to eat today. They hunt for sport!

Some people had a culture of eating other people. Do you think that's wrong?

[ir0nivey]

We pull two deer a year if we're lucky on my farm, we don't grip and grin but we relish in the ability to eat something that shares the land around us.

[brogrammer5]

You're wrong. When I was growing up if we didn't hunt in the winter it means we didn't eat in the Spring.

[markstos]

re: managing deer populations. There will always be some harm. We can strive for outcomes with the least harm.

Hunting is as not much the issue as the billion-plus animals we kill everyday for food. If more people had to look an animal in the eye as some hunters do, perhaps more people would connect the animal flesh they eat with the sentient beings the flesh came from.

https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-fo...

[Falling3]

Do we really need to rehash the issues with moral relativism on HN?