[chrisinha]

Originally Posted by [bt

@ Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:44 am]Think we've gone a little astray from the debate I originally proposed.

However, I would like to put across my own views on some of the comments made recently.

"we have eradicated many preditors in this country. ****That is why many populations of deer are out of control. ****Which is why we hunt here in wisconsin"

1. Deer populations could never be 'out of control'. It's only out of control to us humans, because we don't like things ruining the controlled environment we've created for ourselves.
Believe it or not (and I know it's hard to when you've been brought up in the US), but this is not our planet. We don't own it (NO, the USA doesn't own it either).
If there was ever a population of any one living creature that is severely out of control, then it's us humans.

2. Why on earth would you want to knock out a deer just so you could take a few pictures of yourself with a sleeping deer?!!!
If things don't occur naturally in the wild (like a deer stopping to pose for a photo with you), then what right have we to force it? Especially when it involves some amount of suffering on behalf on the animal.

Which brings me back to keeping fish.
Why get rid of an animal you decided to raise and care for, just because you don't like it any more?

But now I think perhaps this debate should be moved to the chit-chat forum.

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