Do animals have rights? A somewhat foolish debate.

Not a whole lot to write about, might as well touch another silly subject.

I hunt. I fish. Figured i would put that out there just before i went on.

How should we treat animals. Well, i hate to break it to all those who are advocates of PETA's style of animal rights, but we should treat them how they were made to be treated.

The world is not a nice place. The wild is even meaner yet. The eco-system was not built to be nice. It just works. As such, it is neccessary for animals to be hunted. Some people feel that hunting is cruel. Again, its just life.

We, the humans, are omnivores. Built in such a way that we hunt for meat, but when not able to get meat, we can survive on vegetables. This will make us more fit, so we can hunt better, then the meat will fatten us and give us what is neccessary to live out healthy lives in the long run. In short, meat eating is not wrong.

As such, we are also predators. We hunt. That means that other predators will not like sharing territory with us. Thats why wolfs rarely walk in well populated areas. This means we now have been givin the task, by nature, to hunt the herbivores in our territory. Herbivores are used to this. Thats their lives purposed, to eat and deal with the plantlife while sustaining the predators. The herbivores don't have natural inclination to leave a predators territory, that's why it is not uncommon to see deer around well populated areas. The circle of life. This is the way it was supposed to be. We, as primary predator, we should hunt the herbivores so they don't overpopulate.

So not only is it not immoral to hunt, its actually immoral not to hunt. It is understood by us who do that many who don't just can't handle the notion. Thats ok. We take care of your duty as a member of the world. You should thank us, praise us. Hunters are the good guys.

Other people ask if animals feel pain. I say yes, a lobster in a pot probably feels pain. But they probably don't suffer. You are more and likely going "bwuh?" right now, but i stand by this. I personnally believe suffering is not caused by pain, but by fear of pain. We know we can die, animals aren't granted with such curse. They are thinking "ow! ow! this hurts!". We are afraid it will kill us, they can't understand. Thus they feel pain, but do not suffer from it. Most of what is going on will be reflex.

As for pets, pets should be taken care of because you did not take them in as food, but as a friend of sorts. You would not abuse a friend, don't abuse a dog.

I have killed deer. People have asked me if i felt guilty, well not really. I will tell the story, but warning, this might be just a bit graphic. Not to bad, just a bit.

It is getting dark, im out and getting cold, and as i walk back, a small herd of doe jump infront of me. I rather something more in the direction of a buck, but with one last day ending i figure the meat was worth it (venison rocks, don't question). I shoot at one, i miss. As i load, they look at me(remember, i shot, they just stood there like idiots, "natural selection" stands here pretty well). I shoot again, one jerks up and walks...funny... into the woods a bit, not all there but still going. I go in and find it. (graphic part) Apparently i had deattached its heart from the lungs. Ouch(graphic part over). That actually was my first. I had gotten close before, and had seen others downed by friends and family. Well, being my first, i got hit by a "holy shit! i just killed something!" thought. Being an ever so thoughtful person, i reasoned it out...

...we all kill. Many of us will stomp spiders or kill ants. Pests. but just as alive as anything else. Actually, because it's the hunt we go for with deer and foolish fear with spiders, killing deer is by far more ethical then spiders. Even those who haven't done that have probably taken cold pills or some other medicine. Thats killing. Death is part of life. Its just one of those really shitty facts. We must simply live as we were made, because not hunting further increases the damage we do to the earth, as we do not want that now, do we?

So now you know this, go up to a hunter you know, give him a pat on the back, and thank him for doing the dirty work that nature charged you with.

I salute you all, hunters of this world, heroes of nature!