We were recently invited to contribute an anti-hunting viewpoint to a debate article in the Adirondack Explorer entitled ‘Is hunting cruel? Should it be banned?’
The article is not posted on the Explorer website, but here are some pictures of the columns (click for larger images):
Anti-Hunting viewpoint by Jessica Ryle. Adirondack Explorer. Sept/Oct 2010 issue.
Pro-Hunting Viewpoint. Adirondack Explorer. Sept/Oct 2010 issue.
What do you think? Send letters to the editor to phil@adirondackexplorer.org.
An excerpt from our Explorer column was included in a North Country Public Radio blog post today. Check it out here.
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Ok, it’s super hard to read the article in the pictures posted here, but if you’re interested, send me your email and I’ll email you the original pictures. They’re much easier to read.
Nicely written Jessica, you brought just about all the pertinent points I would have, awesome!
I loved how his article mentioned that it’s in “our genes” to hunt, which is absolutely absurd. That’s about as great as when certain men argue that it’s in man’s genes to not be faithful to their significant other, so they shouldn’t be expected to.
I hear so many argue about how meat eating/hunting/what-have-you played into the evolution of man. Even if that was true (difficult to prove at best with scarce information anyway), it doesn’t somehow mean that we can’t advance past a point where we are, or where we once were.
I wonder what else about human tradition he’d like us to preserve. Early man warred with other groups of his kind, stealing, killing, raping, etc., much like we still do today. War seems to be just as near and dear to man as hunting, does he advocate that war continue as well? Maybe rape is the tradition we should preserve.
One funny story I have, is that I once heard a sentiment from a hunter that it was fine for him to kill a deer, yet somehow immoral for others to sterilize some of them. As if that reproductive “right” somehow usurped the right to be alive altogether. I think he was overcompensating for something.
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