Killed in the name of sport???

[basilbrook]

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1267657,00.html

I dont know how everyone else on here thinks about the above news piece, but personally I find it deplorable!!!!

I've never been a fan of hunting for huntings sake, I get my food from the supermarket these days, but to kill such a grand beast in the name of sport turns my stomach!!!!!!

It shows a total lack of respect for nature and all living things. Also what kind of message does it send to the youth of today, tomorrows adults??

I know that this sort of activity is big (business) in the USA, and that probably explains a lot.

[lucifershammer]

I went to a small college in a tiny town in central maine. Alot of the local residents relied on hunting as a source of food. Deer and moose mostly. and that i respect.

but just to hunt for bragging rights.. like a 'my dick is bigger than yours' contest, doenst make sense to me.

[2503]

Hi Basilbrook. I am not a fan of hunting, although the 'news' piece did mention they are going to make sausages out of the hog so it is not just for sport as they will make use of the animal. I am asuming that you do not eat meat otherwise it will be a little hypocritical of you to suggest it shows a lack of respect for living things as the meat you get from the supermarket is probably treated much worse than this animal. I am not having a go, i am just putting it in perspective. Its like when i was a kid watching Animal hospital round a friends house and his mum saw a kitten that was bieng mis treated saying it was such a teribble thing, barbaric even, while she was eating a burger, can you see the irony. Of course this is my opinion, i have no objection to people eating meat, but if we are all one infinite conscienceness then if i kill an animal, and make it suffer so that i can have a full stomach, am i not killing and eating myself? If i am wrong or your opinion differs let me know. Peace and Love.

[eternal_spirit]

I think the statement killing for sport should be termed differentley ........killing for sadistic pleasure which is what it realy is.

[basilbrook]

Hi Basilbrook. I am not a fan of hunting, although the 'news' piece did mention they are going to make sausages out of the hog so it is not just for sport as they will make use of the animal. I am asuming that you do not eat meat otherwise it will be a little hypocritical of you to suggest it shows a lack of respect for living things as the meat you get from the supermarket is probably treated much worse than this animal. I am not having a go, i am just putting it in perspective. Its like when i was a kid watching Animal hospital round a friends house and his mum saw a kitten that was bieng mis treated saying it was such a teribble thing, barbaric even, while she was eating a burger, can you see the irony. Of course this is my opinion, i have no objection to people eating meat, but if we are all one infinite conscienceness then if i kill an animal, and make it suffer so that i can have a full stomach, am i not killing and eating myself? If i am wrong or your opinion differs let me know. Peace and Love.

I understand and respect what your saying, however, I do not have photos taken with me pictured with my full tesco shopping trolley!!!!!! So no I'm not being hypocritical.

I'm quite certain that had they not managed to hunt/shoot (7 times) the animal that they would have starved!!!! My point was about the lack of respect of other living creatures.

And 500lb - 700lb of sausage maybe considered an 'extreme' meal, even by their standards.

[fantana]

So what do you conspiracy folk do to help wildlife and conserve nature? Apart from rave about hunters online.

Where do you get your food from?

How do you think conservation would go if hunting was banned? Who would look after the land and for what reasons? Where would the financing come from?

What do you seriously care about a half a ton wild boar? Have you cried over the picture of its dead body? Have you prayed for it?

If that boar were to have killed the boy, would you say "serves him right for walking where the boar was?" Would you take some sort of pleasure from his demise?

The bottom line is, killing stuff is cool and you know it. It's what real men do. Personally, I take on such beasts with my bear hands and I have no doubt I would be able to out hussle that wild boar, bring it to the ground and dance on its head before carrying it home on my back. But not everyone can be a HMHT such as myself, but I can tell you this, hitting wild animals you want to eat or murder for fun requires more than handing out leaflets. Most of them are illiterate and how many of them do you see in book clubs? If they can't read the signs saying "Hunting Season" wel, it's the same as the "sheeple" as you nerds say telling you there is no New World Order.


Happy Hunting, folks!

[misscpb]

See link

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1267657,00.html

I dont know how everyone else on here thinks about the above news piece, but personally I find it deplorable!!!!

I've never been a fan of hunting for huntings sake, I get my food from the supermarket these days, but to kill such a grand beast in the name of sport turns my stomach!!!!!!

It shows a total lack of respect for nature and all living things. Also what kind of message does it send to the youth of today, tomorrows adults??

I know that this sort of activity is big (business) in the USA, and that probably explains a lot.

It was very sad to see, I will never understand why humans want to conquer and kill.

[gordonfreeman]

Humans don't take care the planet very well. I seen them do a lot of bad things on the planet, when we don't see it. It's the human race responsibility to watch over the planet, but actually the negative alien alliances are watching over them, while they grasp their fear to them. Making the masses afraid of things that they don't understand. When something fears him/her, the terrified human hides, runs away, or tries to kill it. The thing that looks scary on the outside, but soft on the inside.

Hunting animals for food is fine and bad at the same time.

Humans fear something that they don't understand and trust. Expect that they make the animals living on Earth our lowly beings known as the lesser living things. Humans blame and kill animals for fun and sport, like the poor 'Wolves.' Animals are sentinel, they have souls, they have feelings, they feel pain, and they are like all of us. Love, Family, Sex, Hierarchy, Living, Survival, and sharing.

[basilbrook]

So what do you conspiracy folk do to help wildlife and conserve nature? Apart from rave about hunters online.

Where do you get your food from?

How do you think conservation would go if hunting was banned? Who would look after the land and for what reasons? Where would the financing come from?

What do you seriously care about a half a ton wild boar? Have you cried over the picture of its dead body? Have you prayed for it?

If that boar were to have killed the boy, would you say "serves him right for walking where the boar was?" Would you take some sort of pleasure from his demise?

The bottom line is, killing stuff is cool and you know it. It's what real men do. Personally, I take on such beasts with my bear hands and I have no doubt I would be able to out hussle that wild boar, bring it to the ground and dance on its head before carrying it home on my back. But not everyone can be a HMHT such as myself, but I can tell you this, hitting wild animals you want to eat or murder for fun requires more than handing out leaflets. Most of them are illiterate and how many of them do you see in book clubs? If they can't read the signs saying "Hunting Season" wel, it's the same as the "sheeple" as you nerds say telling you there is no New World Order.


Happy Hunting, folks!

After reading this and your other posts I do belive that your are suffering from SMS (short man syndrome)

Real men are, like myself, well over 6 foot tall and not angry at the world as a result. Perhaps you need to lay off the tetosterone for breakfast pal !!!!

If you had your way it's be acceptable to go club the nearest female over her head with your club, then drag her away to your cave!!!!

As has been said on this post before, we are the tenants of this planet and as such should show a little more respect to other life forms who also reside alongside us!!!!

Finally psychologists have identified that children who have a dislike of the natural world and treat it badly have the propensitiy to develop into psychotic adults.

Think you've just gone some way to proving that point stumpy!!!!!!

[clipper14]

That huge wild hog was a tremendous, menacing danger to anyone within the area it roamed which could feasably be of great range.

Feral hogs also do more widespread damage and destruction to acres and acres of forestland and to farmland than any other wild animal.

Those animals are said to be more dangerous, and wildly unpredictable, than black bears by many knowlegable professional woodsmen.

D.N.R. wants them eradicated for all these reasons.

We aren't talking about Bambi here or any kind of repugnant and senseless slaughter of say, baby fur-seals just for some sadist's jollies or a coat.

A dangerous and destructive monster pig like that deserves no pity and should be on a wall-mount somewhere.

Save your mis-placed outrage for the seals who truly are helpless prey or, better yet, re-direct your outrage at the NWO reptiles who

happen to give less consideration to the genocide of you and I than you are giving a to dangerous hog.

Priorities brother.

[lumukanda]

i'm not a fan of hunting at all, i don't deny others the right to do it, but i wish they didn't do it personally.
we have an 'industry' in south africa called canned lion hunting.
basically some rich american or european flies into a game reserve where lion's are bred for the sole purpose of being hunted, i can still live with that, but because of these people's egos and their ineptitude, the lions are drugged, put in a cage so that they can be shot easier, that just makes me sick, you can't shoot, have no desire to hunt the animal, you just want the ego boost of having been able to tell your friends a bullshit story about you shot a lion.

here are a couple of links :
http://www.enkosini.com/CannedHunting.htm (warning : graphic images)
http://www.wag.co.za/Canned%20lion/canned_lion_hunting.htm (just text)

[basilbrook]

That huge wild hog was a tremendous, menacing danger to anyone within the area it roamed which could feasably be of great range.

Feral hogs also do more widespread damage and destruction to acres and acres of forestland and to farmland than any other wild animal.

Those animals are said to be more dangerous, and wildly unpredictable, than black bears by many knowlegable professional woodsmen.

D.N.R. wants them eradicated for all these reasons.

We aren't talking about Bambi here or any kind of repugnant and senseless slaughter of say, baby fur-seals just for some sadist's jollies or a coat.

A dangerous and destructive monster pig like that deserves no pity and should be on a wall-mount somewhere.

Save your mis-placed outrage for the seals who truly are helpless prey or, better yet, re-direct your outrage at the NWO reptiles who

happen to give less consideration to the genocide of you and I than you are giving a to dangerous hog.

Priorities brother.

You typed ''A dangerous and destructive monster pig like that deserves no pity and should be on a wall-mount somewhere''

Seems like you consider some form of life more relevant than others - priorities eh??? Hypocrite!!!, and no thats not a a dangerous and destructive monster animal btw

[synergy777]

hunting if you need food is somewhat justified, hunting for pleasure is barbaric. calling it a sport is bogus, sports require level playing fields.

wouldn't it be fun, if we switched the tables, put the hunters with spears, swords, no guns and let the animals hunt them, lol then see how brave, macho the hunters are. i mean whats better, gives you more happiness, going on sight seeing safari, hot air ballon, filiming, taking pictures of these great creations, or killing them. like i said before luma, its human nature. what the chinese do for medicine is sick, and the japanese killing of dolphins, whales. from foxes, bullfighting, deer hunting its wrong.

[taloho]

BREAKING
Jun 1, 6:10 PM EDT


Pig Was a Monster, but He Wasn't Wild


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FRUITHURST, Ala. (AP) -- The huge hog that became known as "Monster Pig" after being killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred.

Far from feral, the pig had been raised on an Alabama farm and was sold to the Lost Creek Plantation just four days before it was shot there in a 150-acre fenced area, the animal's former owner said.

Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star in a story Friday that he bought the 6-week-old pig in December 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all the pigs at their farm.

"I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn't a wild pig," Rhonda Blissitt said.

Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father described as a three-hour chase. They said it was more than 1,000 pounds and 9 feet long; if anything, it looked even bigger in a now-famous photo of the hunter and the hunted.

"We were told that it was a feral hog," Mike Stone told the Star, "and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog."

Telephone messages left Friday with Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, were not immediately returned.

The Blissitts said they didn't know the hog was Fred until they were contacted by a game warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. The agency determined that no laws were violated in the hunt.

Phil Blissitt said he became irritated when he learned that some thought the photo of Fred was doctored.

"That was a big hog," he said.

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[gordonfreeman]

Last post for this small news thread.

Since, I am a furry fan. Animals deserve respect. Just like people respect each other.