1. No guns. Way too unfair.
-depends on what you are hunting and frankly by law (at least here) all archers are required to carry a gun incase they miss and only wound the deer. No one wants to leave a wounded animal suffering in the woods.
2. Eat everything you kill. If you can't eat it, give it to people who need it.
-agreed. I would further go and say you should use whatever you can off the animal in question. Skin for leather et cet.
3. Hunt with a bow, or another "primitive" weapon.
-again, the gun is nessisary to prevent suffering in case of non-leathal shots. Ending the suffering quickly is the goal of any good and responcable hunter.
4. Do not hunt more often then nescessary.
-also agreed, this is the only responcible way to handle it. No real hunter wants thier prey to go extinct. Infact responcible hunting has kept animals such as the white tailed deer and the wild turkey to come back from low numbers and in the case of the turkey near extinction.
5. If fishing, use a spear (perhaps double-pronged), but not a fishing line.
- what about other primitive methods? Nets and eaven fishing line is just as primitive as a spear. 6. Do not "trophy hunt".
-agreed
again the suffering of animals that are bred for food can be limited by not buying factory farmed meat. If you are willing to pay a little more you can find places that raise free range, antibiotic free animals. Healthy and happy animals produce better food. Just like happy and healthy plants taste better. Like most issues there are more than just the two (meat vs. no meat) options.
On the flip side I don't like how some vegitarians assume that because I eat meat I have no respect for life or animals. This is absurd. If anything I have more respect for the animals in question because I realize that my life depends on them, thier happyness and thier health than the vegitarian does. As an ironic side story a Vegitarian I talked with loved deer and wild rabbits... untill they started eating his garden and competeing with him directly for food. Then he wanted the animals gone because wildlife didn't belong in his backyard.
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