I've always kind of wondered?

Question

Do vegetarians who mostly have a problem with the way that animals are treated in captivity also dislike people who go hunting, if the animal is killed quickly and none of it is wasted?

This is a serious question, btw. I'm not trying to make fun of anyone. I don't like the way that animals are treated in captivity, either, even though I do eat meat.

Answer 1

It depends on the person. Some probably wouldn't mind knowing it died naturally. After all, don't wolves hunt animals, too? But then again, some might think it's cruel if you're just hunting for no reason. That would seem very unfair to the animals.

Answer 2

I knew someone would make fun of us sensitive appetite people!  You stop now!

Answer 3

Nope, I have no respect for hunters. There is absolutely no excuse for entering an animal's natural habitat in order to kill it. Disgusting.

Answer 4

Well, I can't speak for all vegetarians but I always thought hunting was terrible. I mean, no one needs to hunt anymore. It's not a question of survival. But I don't hate hunters either, and if someone told me that they hunted for sport (or whatever) I wouldn't be like :O I HATE YOU.

I hope that answered your question a little :)

Answer 5

I am a vegetarian. I think hunting to hang animals up as trophies is gross. But hunting for food/clothing is not a problem with me. It's a far better way for the animal to die...

Answer 6

I can't remember why I originally turned vegetarian, i made the decision when I was 4 years old so it has now become the norm for me not to eat meat.

I don't like animals being treated inhumanely in any situation and so therefore disagree with many of the ways in which animals are treated in captivity.

If anything I have a bigger problem who hunt for sport. Since when was it entertaining to go out killing. Its not really sport, just cruel.  

Answer 7

Well it is different from veg*an to veg*an, most do not like the killing of an animal period becaue it is ludicrous in most cases. I am anti-hunting, anti-fishing, anti-abuse, anti-torture, anti-suffering/pain, and anti-slaughter of both humans and animals. But I am pro-euthanasia, killing in self or other offense of both human and animals. And I am not for hunting as stated above, but I would rather than that factory farming and slaughterhouse on rare occasions and if it was done quickly and within certain reasons. But many fail to realize not only animal feel pain and suffer they have families in most cases and when hunting you are not only taking the animal you kill life away but them away from their family.

Answer 8

I hate when people tell me ' There's plenty of them '

SO, there's plenty of people in china. So let's just kill them off now! Yeah, no. If it was really a big problem, we'd ALL know.

Another thing I hate ' It's the circle of life ' I wish people could feel all the pain animals go through. And They'd be like suffering on the ground, I walk by. It's the circle of life.

Sorry, ha ha, little rant there.

And no, sorry, anyone who can put a spear through someones fathers heart. Is just cruel.

One time I really liked my friends grandpa, he was really nice and cool. And then I go in the basement. Hunting stuff and 'trophies' everywhere. It definitely changed the way I felt about him, I couldn't look at him the same. ''/

Answer 9

I don't like the fact that animals are killed for hunting, period.  I don't care if none of it is wasted.  I think it disrupts the natural flow of life, and what happens to that family of deer when the pop or mom doesn't come back with food?  I mean, that deer could be a supporter of a family and all of its babies will die.

EDIT:

I don't hate people who hunt, I just hate the "sport".

Answer 10

I am vegan and pro-hunting. If we didn't clear so much land to grow grain for factory farmed animals, we could have conserved that land and let deer and bison thrive. If more people would go out and hunt instead of buying meat from a fast food restaurant or supermarket, the world would be a much better place.

I'm sure that many people would say that vegan and pro-hunting are incompatible, but I'd have to disagree.

- I'd rather have wild animals die by bullet in their natural habitat without ever knowing they were stalked or entering a horrific slaughterhouse. Man-made machines are the best ways to kill an animal. Teeth and claws that are a result of billions of years of evolution, not so much.

- If we allowed predators to repopulate, those animals would have to die while being ravaged by a predator's teeth, jaws, claws and some of them could cause a threat to people, especially children.

-If the wild predators aren't hunting and the hunters aren't hunting, the herbivores will overpopulate which leads to more animals being hit by vehicles, diseases transmitting faster and easier and shortage of food sources which leads to more animals starving to death in the winter.

It's a sad reality, but humans and their "pets" or companion animals are of a very select few species that can escape the threat of being eaten by something bigger or stronger(most of the time).

As long as most of the animal is used and people respect hunting limits, I see it as nothing more than a fact of life. Much more pleasant than the **real** facts of life to be honest.

Answer 11

So long as the hunters are well-trained and are actually going to eat whatever they catch, I don't have any problem with it. Better for an animal to live its life in its natural habitat and die instantly, without ever knowing what hit it, than to die in a panic surrounded by the smell of blood after having been given hormones and antibiotics, etc.

Answer 12

after I heard how hunters take care of animals, all those stereotypes are gone. they feed the animals. woow, that is rare to hear.

I dislike bears, large snakes, wolves, tigers and sharks eating humans, so I dislike humans hunting and raising animals for meat. I dont mind if sheeps would cut our hair and make coats whenever we cut their fur for wool. however no killing. no one likes being eaten, otherwise zebras and deers wouldnt run away whenever someone is hunting them.

Answer 13

I don't know about most since I haven't taken a poll but I am a vegetarian and yes I have a problem with hunters. Tracking and killing an animal is not a 'sport' it's killing. I find it disgusting.

How one can look at a beautiful creature and then shoot it dead to then proudly display it's dead rotting carcase as some sort of trophy is beyond me.

Answer 14

Krister has a point.  We have cleared so much land for farming and for home development that we have taken habitat from deer and other wildlife who then overbreed in the remaining wild spaces.  

In our area, we have one town overrun with deer.  It got so that they would run out into main roads and cause accidents, often fatal and suffering for the animal, and in two cases fatal to some passengers.

The answer was a culling of the population by approved and licensed hunters, and the county paid to have the meat processed professionally and distributed to local soup kitchens.  

All in all, safer for the herd, (less competition for limited food,so less starvation for the wintering herd)  safer for motorists, less accidents, and lean protien for the city's hungry & homeless.  

I have no problem with that.