Wild boar are an invasive species that is hurting a lot of native species. Hunting them is at least attempting to keep them in check.

and die in pure agony and hell, right?

Do you think buying a pig from a factory farm is an improvement?

How did nature do it before people?

The alternative is, in many cases, unacceptable as well.

Each ecosystem has a carrying capacity for a given species. Without humans, nature would take care of any overpopulation with disease and predation. In the absence of predators (we have sadly eliminated most of those), deer, for example, because stunted because there isn't enough food to go around. Plus diseases become a problem as well.

Hunting is one of the methods to manage these populations. It is done scientifically, not always perfectly, with limits set according to whatever formulas the managers have to be sustainable.

Did you know that an excise tax on hunting and fishing equipment and motor boat fuels goes to conservation programs? Most hunters and fishers that I know are more than willing to help out.

Sadly, they have attempted to institute a similar tax on other types of activities (binoculars, camping equipment) but those have always failed in Congress.

Please read a little about fish and wildlife management before you spout ignorant nonsense.

I understand killing animals to eat. That's not what we are talking about. This is killing for
Entertainment.

Believe me, I know because I was a copy-editor 13 years for hunting and fishing magazines across the U.S. I also hated hunting and after reading and editing first-hand stories from hunters, I grew to really despise that so-called sport.

Could give a shit about having their pic taken with what they killed,let alone wanting it in a magazine.

I hunted for 30+ years and can never remember a pic being taken.

but what I was actually ohotographing was the long-tailed weasal that was eating the tallow from the hanging carcass.

Trophy game make up only a tiny percentage of wildlife that is harvested. What, do you think everybody is actually shooting 12-point bucks with a B&C score of over 190? The reason your perceptions are scewed is that your average doe or fork buck don't make it into the pages of outdoor magazines.

Interestingly enough, there is a 10 point buck roaming our suburban Twin Cities neighboorhood. We rarely see a buck loke that on our hunting land. They never come out of the deep woods and swamps during the daytime.

Do you really expect anyone to believe the vast majority of deer shot in this country every fall are left to rot in the woods, with only their heads sawed off for a wall mount?

What you suggest is actually illegal in virtually every state (leaving a game animal to rot in the field), with hefty fines and revocation of your hunting license if caught by game wardens.

And having grown up in a rural area where many people hunt with hand-me-down guns to get cheap meat for the freezer, I can say that I've NEVER seen anyone who didn't eat what they killed. Even a big buck can be processed into venison sausage, steak, hamburger, etc.

you don't know.
The vast majority of animals harvested are NOT trophy animals, they're taken for food.

Can't imagine why they are trying to head off future opposition to hunting. I mean, nobody would ever vilify and denigrate hunting and attempt to legislate against it...

Psychopaths like to eat food. I like to eat food. The case is mounting against me, it seems.

the following to Article III of their Constitution:

amendment guaranteeing the right hunt and fish in 1998. It passed with a yes vote of more than 77%. Initially, while still in committe, the amendment also would have guaranteed the right to trap fur bearing animals.

and into the voting booths. Does anyone really believe that people in Alabama or Mississippi are in any danger of losing their right to hunt or fish? Never going to happen but it does get the Republican voting block to show up on election day.

this issue was bi-partisan. It was more of a metro, non-metro division. There were some liberalTwin Cities Democrats against the amendment, but most Democratic legislators outside of the Twin Cities voted to out the amendment on the statewide ballot.

guns have never had rights either...