Considering all the endangered animals in Alaska, do you think it's right that Palin shoots and kills moose?

Question

They are huge animals with feelings, it seems so cold-blooded and destructive. Is that setting a good role model for people? What do you think?

Answer 1

If Moose are huge animals with feelings, then you must also be stating that in fact ALL animals have feelings. As everyone else here has posted, a Moose that is shot through hunting has had a totally free range life with no fences or limits. As a hunter, I know that after that first shot, there is no way the moose will feel anything after 30 minutes tops. If the hunter is a good shot, it may even go out within 20 seconds. If you are worried about a wounded animal, a hunter in Alaska is obviously avid, so they know how to track blood trails. The beef you buy at your local grocery store is from a cow that has been in a 6' x 6' enclosure for it's entire life. It has no freedom. No choice of food. No interaction. Nothing. Hunting is a much more humane way for food than going and buying beef at the store.

Hunting is a hobby as well as a way to get food. Palin should not be criticized for hunting moose. There are much more important things to look at in the world of politics.

Answer 2

1. Moose aren't endangered

2. Many moose are struck and killed by cars in Alaska, better that a few a shot every year rather than hit.

3. Many people in Alaska hunt and fish to add food to their pantries and freezers

4. Human beings are Hunters and predators by nature's design and hunting helps the species much more than just leaving it to nature.

5. Cattle and pigs having feelings to but I'm guessing you don't care when you're eating breakfast lunch and dinner.

Answer 3

Hunting is an important method of population control of different species. Moose is _-NOT-_ an endangered species! I'm sure that the state of Alaska has hunting laws just like other states!

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Answer 4

Moose aren't endangered, though.

The number of predators like wolves, that control the moose population, have dropped a lot.  That is why people need to do it (until the wolf populations come back).  We do the same thing in the lower 48 with deer.

Being shot and killed quickly is a lot better way to go than being torn apart by a pack of wolves.

DK

Answer 5

I would shoot one too. Nothing wrong with hunting.

Answer 6

I consider myself an environmentalist, but I'm an omnivore. I would rather someone have to go out and shoot an animal which lived a natural life than shop at the nearest megamart and buy an animal that was raised in a cage and pumped full of antibiotics and steroids.

If the animal isn't endangered and it will be used for food and other things I don't see anything wrong with it. Just think of it this way. The Moose only had one bad day in it's life, what kind of life did your last meal have?

Answer 7

If, as you say, 150,000 moose are born in Alaska each year, how, as you say, the [moose] population is greatly declining? You quote other  facts - if those percentages also remain static, why would the moose population not remain stable?

What was the moose population last year?

The year before that?

If you want more moose, reduce the biggest killing force - thin out the natural predators. The amount of hunters is small potatoes here.

Of the 8,000 moose shot by hunters, how many are killed?

How many moose are shot by photographers each year?

Why not create a law to make the hunters eat the moose they shoot - then you could lump them in with the other predators.

Are umbrellas on the protected species list yet?

I thought the NRA was protective of citizens' rights.

Beef cattle are fairly large in size and I know California cows have feelings (see California TV commercials).

Is it OK to kill cows because we use them for food and  more are raised all to time to replace the slaughtered ones(that way they'll never become endangered)?

Answer 8

what do moose have to do with any of the endangered species in Alaska.. you need to work on making logical links in your arguments.

Answer 9

Moose are not endangered.  People eat them.  Same as deer hunting.  Some might even say that hunting is a lot less cruel then raising animals in pens, fattening them up with unhealthy foods, loading them on trucks and trains and making them stand in line while they watch the animal in front of them get their neck slit!

I don't like people who hunt for horns, and leave the rest of the animal to rot.  You shoot it, you eat it!! Or give it to someone who will eat it!!  

Answer 10

nothing wrong with hunting eh? um let me think (pondering for a minute)

I know we put the cougars and red wolves on the endangered species list because we did not understand them or thought of them to be evil killing machines that cruised around killing people that is what we thought when we first came to America. Now the deer are so much over populated that we have to have deer hunts.  I do not like hunting at all because I always felt bad for the animals and when they put their heads on walls that is SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... degrading to animals.

TO answer your question No it is not a good role model to show because affecting out young people today. I was walking down the street I have seen many people liter and now I saw some kids just kicking trash around and not picking up their trash at all.

Answer 11

Missy people that hunt do the animals a service. The fees on our licenses , hunting guns and ammo help pay for animal conservation, National Parks, Park Rangers, and help full research on animal populations. And a moose does not have cold blood either, nor are they endangered either. In some areas their numbers are starting to make a come back, Maine is a prime example of this.

Before you object to some thing you owe it to yourself to learn all you can about it so you know what your talking about.

Answer 12

There is nothing inherently wrong with hunting, so long as it is performed in a legal manner.  Hunting is used by most states to control animal populations, which in turn is actually good for the environment as a whole.  Additionally, the moose is not an endangered animal, and by controlling the population size of moose, the environmental health as a whole is improved.