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Thread #165125   Message #3958486
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
26-Oct-18 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
Subject: RE: BS: Keep Larysa Switlyk out of Scotland
The "need to hunt" versus the "need to kill" (Jim's expression) are different. Hunting is a perfectly honorable way to put food on the table, ESPECIALLY when the overpopulation of deer causes problems for both humans and deer (annual starvation die-offs each winter). When the predators are removed from the landscape (primarily wolves and big cats) then there are too many deer, and that is what has happened in at least the US part of North America.

Venison is delicious. The management of game in the US is handled through fees paid for annual hunting licenses, just as game fish management is handled through annual fishing licenses. There are distinct hunting seasons and rules regarding what and how many you may take.

What Ms. Switlyk is doing is something entirely different from hunting. She's out shooting to kill.