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SweetJibbaJams t1_j2s6hvm wrote

Reply to comment by electric_ranger in Chat Around and Find Out: Tuesday Casual Chat Thread by AutoModerator

I couldn't find the F&S article, but found a similar WHYY piece

https://whyy.org/articles/first-mentored-deer-hunt-at-phillys-heinz-refuge-draws-30-newbies-to-the-woods/

I'm not anti-meat consumption by any metric, but I would like to go hunting at some point to at least have a better understanding about where my food comes from and what it would mean to get my own meat.

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courageous_liquid t1_j2sbznx wrote

Any conservationist also knows that large populations of things like deer are horrible for them (from a population standpoint) in the long run due to things like disease. We removed the predators and are now responsible for thinning the herd ourselves.

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SweetJibbaJams t1_j2ses38 wrote

For sure. This American Life (i think) did an interesting piece on the guy who was lambasted for doing a rhino hunt a few years ago. The details that were omitted from the general media was that when rhinos get too old, they try to kill younger more virile rhinos and auctioning off the hunt was a way for the local African government to raise conservation funds and take care of this rhino that was a threat to the rest of the endangered population.

Not saying all big game hunting is ethical, but hunting and conservation is an issue that it would benefit more people to be knowledgeable about, in my opinion.

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electric_ranger t1_j2s7fjg wrote

That's definitely the same hunt, some of those people are even mentioned in the article.

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