The thoughts from a Hunter on Anti Hunters.

The Hunter’s do help
I’ve heard people saying that hunters are cruel, and not only calling us cruel they also go against what we do, and in fact they think that we hunt to be cruel and inhumane. This is in fact a lie and the folks who run against us are called PETA members. I’m against animal cruelty but hunting is fast killing and a necessity to the populations of America, one man told me that he wishes he could kill me simply because I was turkey hunting. Now this is sick… I really don’t see how anyone can even think of killing another human being who hasn’t done anything to another person or committed a major crime.
Why is it that these PETA members are against hunters, butcher farms, dairy farms and much more, now I don’t understand how they can have these beliefs and still live in the planet Earth?
Here is a simple example of how it works.
A hunter or average person will hunt or buy their own meat where PETA protest this act; now PETA is all for vegetarians but you must understand vegetarians still kill animals; for example when you buy vegetables you are supporting international farmers who kill the bugs (still living creatures) with chemicals before harvest of the crops, and as the vegetables are being driven across states there will be many birds, bugs and occasional deer hit on the road by the people hauling the substances. Not to mention that I have farmers call me all the time during elk season trying to have us come out and fill our tag(s) on elk eating their crops. The point is that there is no doubt we all kill animals and it can’t be helped. It’s a part of life and has always been that way.
The newest activity PETA protests against is: wearing shoes and belts along with owning wallets. The reason they protest this is because leather is made of animal hide, and fact is if you are buying a rubber shoe from Nike or Reebok you are still supporting the same company which produces leather equipment. There is also nothing wrong with using leather because this just shows that the animals butchered in the United States are fully used and not wasted in anyway which is another thing hunters are against.
One thing PETA members recently succeeded in doing was bringing wolves back to the USA which was a bad idea. They believed the decrease of deer populations in many states is due to people, but recent studies have proven the decrease in deer and elk population is due to the overpopulation of cougars which is a separate issue because you can’t hunt them with dogs (the only way) which is a banned method because they didn’t think animals had enough of a chance, and this creates perfect cougar hunting grounds. A cougar will kill 5 deer a week and a hunter kills one deer a year in the west. The cougars are highly populated in the west and are killing all of our other animals. Now that wolves have been introduced to the United States especially in Idaho and Montana along with other states in the Northwest and Midwest; have practically eliminated elk in areas that used to be highly populated.
Now myself along with many other fishermen and hunters support PETA in some ways as far as animal cruelty where animals are locked up and starved to death or put to death in extremely inhumane ways but as long as the United States butchering corps. Keep using electric rods which are efficient and humane there is nothing wrong with eating meat from commercial farms nor is there anything wrong with killing and eating your own stock or wild game.
We hunter’s put the most funds of all citizens in the USA towards wild animal habitat and preservation. We support the Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife for preserving healthy habitats for the animals to reproduce and forage in. the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife put limits on all game animals to; They allow a certain amount of animals to be shot which won’t eradicate the population nor will the population explode, and instead we keep the population in check. Also the animals won’t overpopulate and get diseases or run out of forage. And we also try to specialize in taking the very old animals which will fill the freezers yet they would die within 2 years from starvation and old age which is a very hard slow death to an animal. And at that age they don’t reproduce so they are just eating the healthy animal’s food.


As you can see we don’t try to create pain in this old world we try to help it, and preserve some of this world for the animals. We do take a little from this world by killing one or two deer every year. But all we are doing is keeping the population in check and keep eating healthy wild game. Thanks for reading my observational journal!
Morgan Murphy