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Some do hunt for trophies and don't eat the meat. That's not much allowed anymore, but used to be the thing - like African safari hunting, for instance.
I have no problem with people hunting and using the meat and leather if they killed the animal for good use. But, I have never known a hunter to mount a head or antlers on a wall in order to honor the animal that was killed. It was a bragging rights thing, and that's just creepy. That makes it more about the kill, than the use of the animal for good purpose.
Some do hunt for trophies and don't eat the meat. That's not much allowed anymore, but used to be the thing - like African safari hunting, for instance.
I have no problem with people hunting and using the meat and leather if the killed the animal for good use. But, I have never known a hunter to mount a head or antlers on a wall in order to honor the animal that was killed. It was a bragging rights thing, and that's just creepy. That makes it more about the kill, than the use of the animal for good purpose.
I agree with this. No one ever mounts the head of a doe. Though to most, the meat is much better from a doe.
Nor do we buy the heads of the steers that provide our beef and mount those. It does seem to be about glorifying the hunter and the kill.
My BIL “hunts” by baiting deer with a corn feeder near his cushy tree stand and then plunks away at them. And has the nerve to celebrate his hunt with a taxidermied head on his wall.
He also claims to eat the meat but in reality he has it all made into summer sausage (even the blackstrap) and tries to give it away to his squeamish suburban friends, like so much excess garden zucchini.
It ends up being tossed.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a hunter being proud of a really nice animal he has gotten. At least there is some glory and appreciation for the animal. Is it better if our food dies anonymously in big factory farms, faceless, unappreciated, unglorified? Or are we just fooling ourselves that we are better than those who can look their food in the eye?
The deer who dies without fear at a corn feeder, probably had the most humane death possible. Nature is a cruel place and most death in the wild is not near quick as from a hunter's gun.
In the wild, they get run down and die while their hunter eats them, or after long painful injuries and infections.
Maybe those on the wall are actually the lucky ones. My two cents.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a hunter being proud of a really nice animal he has gotten. At least there is some glory and appreciation for the animal. Is it better if our food dies anonymously in big factory farms, faceless, unappreciated, unglorified? Or are we just fooling ourselves that we are better than those who can look their food in the eye?
The deer who dies without fear at a corn feeder, probably had the most humane death possible. Nature is a cruel place and most death in the wild is not near quick as from a hunter's gun.
In the wild, they get run down and die while their hunter eats them, or after long painful injuries and infections.
Maybe those on the wall are actually the lucky ones. My two cents.
I would think someone who bred and raised a meat animal would have more to crow about than a hunter, to be perfectly honest. A lot more time and work goes into an animal you breed and raise. Yet no one hangs a steer or hog head on the wall.
I don’t buy meat from factory farms. For years we raised our own and now buy from local small farmers,.. pastured beef, pork, chicken and eggs.
Raised humanely.
But whatever. You and I are free to have differing opinions about it.
Last edited by mistyriver; 02-25-2018 at 06:34 PM..
I have zero problems with hunting. It prevents animals like deer from overpopulating and dying of diseases that spread due to overpopulation. In most places, their natural predators are long gone and hunting fills the gap. Plus where I live, people who hunt do eat the meat.
However, I hate taxidermy and honestly feel it is disrespectful to the animal. It's also creepy as hell to look at.
Decoration wise, it looks tacky. I also look at the animals staring down from the wall and feel bad they ended up there. In addition, it looks creepy. When I look at houses for sale online, there are the animal head ones and it’s like oh, one of ‘those’ houses. I’m more tolerant of shag carpeting and 70’s wallpaper than dead animal heads.
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