Regarding Hunting

posted October 6th, 2015 at 8:34 AM

When I was young I hunted with bow and rifle. When I was a teenager I quit. I realized hunting, whether for meat or trophies is evolution in reverse. Natural predators cull the weak, sick and those with genetic traits less suited for survival of the fittest. Human predators kill the biggest and strongest. Those with the most meat, the best trophies, the 10 point buck rather than the 4 or 6, the biggest grizzly rather than the smallest etc. This removes them from the gene pool and prevents superior genetic material from being passed on. Hunting, as it is done now is weakening nature's gene pool.

3 Comments

ihaterednecks

Oct 6, 2015 at 3:44pm

everything about these gun toting rednecks are backwards. and the crazy thing is i bet a lot of these knuckle draggers are "pro life" like the hypocrites that they usually are.

Goodguy

Oct 6, 2015 at 8:56pm

Well, the entire human race is a parasitic species destroying nature every minute of every day. I can't really criticize hunters who do it for meat, after all, I am a meat eater who buys dead animals wrapped in cellophane. Hunting for sport is what sickens me - those people are scum, killing for fun and posing with their 'trophies'...oooh what an achievement.

Paolo

Oct 7, 2015 at 12:31pm

I agree. Same with fisheries, keep the big and throw back the small. It genetically selects for the runts to pass on the genes. This is called fisheries induced evolution and biologists are only now beginning to recognize its significance. It may have had a role to play in the cod collapse off the coast of Newfoundland.

With hunting, it is the same, the healthiest specimens die, the runts survive and pass on their genes.