Alligator Hunting..

[KrokadilyanGuy3]

With all the farm raised food, there is no reason for wild hunting

Maybe, but is it not true that you eat what you like? Deer is far healtier than most production type animals, you get the experience of catching your own food, you're validating the food chain, you are contributing to wildlife conservation, plus you are eating what you like. I'd eat a deer over a cow or any type of pigs anyday. Plus the crocs love wild boar..
Xain

[Yve]

although I don't think I could do it myself....I have a hard time hooking a minnow when fishing and I definately am not the one killing the fish caught!....I am not against hunting but I do have some stipulations...humane killing, only hunting animals in season & the allowed amount, for food NOT for trophy(that sickens me).
It doesn't make sense that people think farmed animals is a better option to hunted. Do they think that farmed animals are treated more humanely than hunted ones? Hah!
A friend of mine grew up on a reservation in Northern Ontario and hunting is one way of providing for the family. She has respect for the animals she eats and the parts not eaten are used for other things. As for the taste....I think game meat tastes much better than farmed beef, pork or poultry. Deer is delish, caribou is mouth watering, rabbit makes for good stew, and alligator is pretty tasty too!

[Sunrunner]

Here an interesting point why is it humans can hunt generally uncondoned (by the way I agree with proper hunting and would love to try it some day) but when an animal kills a human the media explodes and this animal suddenly finds itself the victim of the proverbial "witch hunt" take for example the safari in the congo who set out to capture anacondas and whe an anaconda snatched one of the children (why children were present i still do not understand) suddenly condas were satan incarnate and mass exterminated. Another example several years back when that cougar snatched a kid from a school yard, if not for the interference of B.C. rangers there probably wouldn't be any cougars out west anymore. I could name a hundred more instances. Why the double standard? Also as far as popluation control goes maybe we got it backwards maybe the animals (gators, rattlers, etc) are trying to control our population...i'll leave that one for the philosophy class. If humans were taken out of the picture animals were work together in perfect synergy. Anyway humane killing of animals is admirable but have you ever seen animals kill each other...friggin brutal! Just food for thought. By the way snake is the worst tasting food in the world before becoming a herp owner I tried some at Mardi Gras, maybe it was all in my head (venom thoughts) but it was sick. Wild hunting was once the only way it was done if anything is unnatural it's mass production, ever been to a chicken barn or a beef ranch...sick ****.

[KrokadilyanGuy3]

but when an animal kills a human the media explodes and this animal suddenly finds itself the victim of the proverbial "witch hunt"

Because everyone thinks that humans are the superior species and doesn't deserve to be eaten? That question has wondered me for as long as I can remember, and this was the only answer ever given me..

are trying to control our population

I like the way you think..

Anyway humane killing of animals is admirable but have you ever seen animals kill each other

I remember seeing two adult male baboons batting up on a female for no reason and then leaving her corpse after they were done.. It was also stated that the female was not a new comer so the reason of this act has me wondered..

Snake does suck and I also hate frog legs.. Xain