Comments on: The Bloody Business of the Trophy Hunters http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters Vegetarian Lifestyle For the Veg and Veg-curious Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:34:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Enfotainer http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-2087 Enfotainer Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:03:11 +0000 http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-2087 Is this blog dead? So you've been employed SoVeg? :-) Is this blog dead? So you’ve been employed SoVeg? :-)

]]> By: SoVeg http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-1015 SoVeg Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:23:52 +0000 http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-1015 It's not about your people's right to hunt. It is about your people selling their right to hunt, to rich white hunters who kill for sport, not survival. It’s not about your people’s right to hunt. It is about your people selling their right to hunt, to rich white hunters who kill for sport, not survival.

]]> By: jacob pokiak http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-952 jacob pokiak Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:51:18 +0000 http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-952 yeah i remember that hunt like it was yesterday. you think killing polar bears is cruel, how about those bears in 30degree weather for their whole lives.its like being in hospital for the rest of their lives. sure must suck. this animal is made to perfection for 40, 60 or 70 below zero. that is the way nature works. only the strong survive and the weak die! anyway , when you do get veggies up north they are in pretty bad shape. the reason we the inuit were able to survive without vegtables is by eating whale and seal blubber that give you more vitamins and nutriants than any veggie can give you. so december 1st is coming pretty quik, which is opening day for the polar bear hunt. better get ready i guess. who do you people think you are trying to take away my berh right to hunt and pass along the tradition to my children. you people suck! yeah i remember that hunt like it was yesterday. you think killing polar bears is cruel, how about those bears in 30degree weather for their whole lives.its like being in hospital for the rest of their lives. sure must suck. this animal is made to perfection for 40, 60 or 70 below zero. that is the way nature works. only the strong survive and the weak die! anyway , when you do get veggies up north they are in pretty bad shape. the reason we the inuit were able to survive without vegtables is by eating whale and seal blubber that give you more vitamins and nutriants than any veggie can give you. so december 1st is coming pretty quik, which is opening day for the polar bear hunt. better get ready i guess.
who do you people think you are trying to take away my berh right to hunt and pass along the tradition to my children. you people suck!

]]> By: SoVeg http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-282 SoVeg Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:16:06 +0000 http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-282 Pasty losers! Good one Opal! Has anyone seen Wild TV? I'm going to have to write a post about it. On the commercial for the channel you see them hunting every animal in the book. Even the commercials while watching the channel are full of death... they are all for bullets and weapons. I can't believe people watch that sickness. Murder is not entertainment. Pasty losers! Good one Opal!

Has anyone seen Wild TV? I’m going to have to write a post about it. On the commercial for the channel you see them hunting every animal in the book. Even the commercials while watching the channel are full of death… they are all for bullets and weapons. I can’t believe people watch that sickness. Murder is not entertainment.

]]> By: Veganmama http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-281 Veganmama Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:39:15 +0000 http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-281 Need the hunting industry for their livelihoods, right, so let's all back off for the minority people...who didn't need a "livelihood" before Europeans came around and introduced the almighty dollar to them. There are plenty of other livelihoods we could so generously provide for them in our superior beneficence...like photographic safaris, led by the same folks who know how to track the polar bears...so they can be captured for all time in gorgeous pictures. Or just nature touring to see all KINDS of the mystic bounty of the north. Oh, and it's overwhelmingly ridiculous that the Canadian government claims to take such great pains (hah - can you see them poring over maps and data spanning the years, how many polar bears spotted this year, this decade, compared with last year, last decade?) to ensure that polar bear hunting doesn't threaten the species with immediate extinction. We all know that the melting of arctic ice is already threatening their extinction, and hunting them for thrills only hastens their obliteration from existence - forever. While we're at it, why is the species all that matters? Let's not let the worst of killers - insipid ones - be the ones to frame the argument - leaving important details conveniently outside of the discussion. If one animal doesn't matter, why should a hundred or a thousand or 10,000 matter? For our sake of asthetics, is my guess. Nice to know they're around, right? So we can go out and shoot them, if we're rich enough to buy a couple of slaps on the back from colleagues or fellow country club members back home. Me, I care about the individual bears, themselves, being chased down and murdered by a bunch of cowards who want to go around playing at pretend hunting, with all of the work done for them except for pulling the trigger. Oooh. Girls, let's all clamor to have sex with THAT pasty loser.... I would like to believe that people could think of more imaginative and - why not - wondrous things to do with their time on this earth, and as much money as these pathetic lost souls who feel so empty and void of anything interesting in their lives that the only "logical" escape from it is by causing tremendous pain in the murder of innocent animals and the slow, starving deaths of their young. Need the hunting industry for their livelihoods, right, so let’s all back off for the minority people…who didn’t need a “livelihood” before Europeans came around and introduced the almighty dollar to them.

There are plenty of other livelihoods we could so generously provide for them in our superior beneficence…like photographic safaris, led by the same folks who know how to track the polar bears…so they can be captured for all time in gorgeous pictures.

Or just nature touring to see all KINDS of the mystic bounty of the north.

Oh, and it’s overwhelmingly ridiculous that the Canadian government claims to take such great pains (hah - can you see them poring over maps and data spanning the years, how many polar bears spotted this year, this decade, compared with last year, last decade?) to ensure that polar bear hunting doesn’t threaten the species with immediate extinction. We all know that the melting of arctic ice is already threatening their extinction, and hunting them for thrills only hastens their obliteration from existence - forever.

While we’re at it, why is the species all that matters? Let’s not let the worst of killers - insipid ones - be the ones to frame the argument - leaving important details conveniently outside of the discussion. If one animal doesn’t matter, why should a hundred or a thousand or 10,000 matter? For our sake of asthetics, is my guess. Nice to know they’re around, right? So we can go out and shoot them, if we’re rich enough to buy a couple of slaps on the back from colleagues or fellow country club members back home.

Me, I care about the individual bears, themselves, being chased down and murdered by a bunch of cowards who want to go around playing at pretend hunting, with all of the work done for them except for pulling the trigger. Oooh. Girls, let’s all clamor to have sex with THAT pasty loser….

I would like to believe that people could think of more imaginative and - why not - wondrous things to do with their time on this earth, and as much money as these pathetic lost souls who feel so empty and void of anything interesting in their lives that the only “logical” escape from it is by causing tremendous pain in the murder of innocent animals and the slow, starving deaths of their young.

]]> By: lynx http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-173 lynx Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:49 +0000 http://soveg.com/the-bloody-business-of-the-trophy-hunters#comment-173 it is cruel and disgusting, it also seems to me very human.... the thrill of hunting and killing something that could kill you. which, i suppose, is why hunting is so popular. our ancestors were hunter/gatherers, and that meant people who were good at hunting lived longer and had bigger families. the crunch is that as sophisticated and modern as we think we've become as a species, the animal hasn't really changed all that much in the last 10,000 years or so. in evolutionary terms that's just the blink of an eye, after all. lurking somewhere in our dna are our cave-dwelling ancestors who get an incredible adrenalin rush out of the act of killing. it's ugly but i think it explains a lot about humans. unfortunately, as the melting ice caps force increasing numbers of them south we can expect to see more and more of them getting killed as the poachers and hunters find them easier to get too. If polar bear populations were stable and their habitat wasn't being irrevocably destroyed by global climate change the occasional killing of a few bears wouldn't make that much difference for the species as a whole, the problem is that they're well on their way to extinction already and letting rich people go neanderthal on them doesn't help anything. so yeah, hunting polar bears is stupid and unnecessary and cruel. It's also quintessentially human. And in 50 years we'll have destroyed so much of their habitat that they'll all be extinct. And, unless we get very lucky, we'll follow them down that path soon after. sorry to be all pessimistic, this kind of thing always puts me in a foul mood. it is cruel and disgusting, it also seems to me very human…. the thrill of hunting and killing something that could kill you. which, i suppose, is why hunting is so popular. our ancestors were hunter/gatherers, and that meant people who were good at hunting lived longer and had bigger families. the crunch is that as sophisticated and modern as we think we’ve become as a species, the animal hasn’t really changed all that much in the last 10,000 years or so. in evolutionary terms that’s just the blink of an eye, after all. lurking somewhere in our dna are our cave-dwelling ancestors who get an incredible adrenalin rush out of the act of killing. it’s ugly but i think it explains a lot about humans.

unfortunately, as the melting ice caps force increasing numbers of them south we can expect to see more and more of them getting killed as the poachers and hunters find them easier to get too. If polar bear populations were stable and their habitat wasn’t being irrevocably destroyed by global climate change the occasional killing of a few bears wouldn’t make that much difference for the species as a whole, the problem is that they’re well on their way to extinction already and letting rich people go neanderthal on them doesn’t help anything.

so yeah, hunting polar bears is stupid and unnecessary and cruel. It’s also quintessentially human. And in 50 years we’ll have destroyed so much of their habitat that they’ll all be extinct. And, unless we get very lucky, we’ll follow them down that path soon after.

sorry to be all pessimistic, this kind of thing always puts me in a foul mood.

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