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F.O.A.D.

On 4/16/13 3:35 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:13:12 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 4/16/13 11:55 AM, wrote:

The classic example of this is the big game hunting ranches in Texas.
They are the only ones who are preserving species that are rapidly
going extinct in the wild. It is a managed population. PETA says they
would rather have them extinct than have someone shoot one
occasionally.

I guess they never saw a lion take down a grazing animal. If so they
would never say hunting was cruel.

Is there something wrong with preserving habitat for the sake of
preserving habitat, without having the slaughter of animals as a motivator?

John is creating habitat hitting a little white ball, you deride that
too.
The problem is land costs money and the tree huggers always what to
"save" someone else's land. There is no Sierra Club or PETA game
preserve. That is why I am proud of SW Florida for actually voting to
buy conservation land. It is pretty rare.

Managed population is a euphemistic way of saying canned hunt.

OK. so?

Lions take down grazing animals to eat and survive, not for sport. I was
fairly neutral on "hunting" until a decade or so ago, when I saw a TV
video of a "brave hunter" shooting and killing some distance away a
sheep with fancy horns. What a brave man.

So what. There is still a breeding population.

Perhaps if "hunter sportsmen" had to down and slaughter their prey with
a hunting knife it might be hunting and sporting.