How to Stop the Hunting Tradition
Hunting is an archaic activity that does nothing other than give its participants an excuse to bear arms and hurt nature’s creatures. Stopping these senseless traditions is as easy as exposing these people as the brutal, animal hating, gun toting rednecks they are. How do we do this?
- Start Small – Before trying to destroy hunting in a large country like the United States which is deep with outdoor traditions, start with a smaller country such as the United Kingdom. Using the Scientific Method, establish it as your control and try out a number of ideas you feel can lead to outlawing the barbaric outdoor lifestyle. Start by seeking the outran ban of a very specific species of animal that people are sympathetic to. In the case of the UK, for example, you can use the medieval class system and how it ties to oppression as a great reason to ban fox hunting. If that doesn’t work, throw in the fact the foxes will die in a brutal manner because of the use of dogs since, as we all know, mother nature is the most humane of all killers…not people nor pets.
- Divide and Conquer – This concept is nothing new. Take a large group such as outdoors enthusiasts and divide them into increasingly smaller groups. Start by dividing them into hunting and trapping camps. Then move on to dividing hunting into deer hunters, turkey hunters and the like. Then do your best to turn those groups against one another by suggesting whitetail deer are much more of a challenge to hunt than turkey. Encourage the proliferation of region and species specific online communities. In this manner, mis-information they give about us so-called “antis” will be limited to those communities. Be sure to perpetuate the stereotype that hunting is an activity for only the manliest of white, anglo-saxon protestants. The last thing we need is the additional contention that women, blacks and Mexicans could bring to the table.
- Turn Them into Monsters – It’ll be much easier to outlaw outdoor activities if the participants are looked upon negatively by the general public. The best part of this is you can often profit off of this activity by making things like stickers of the Confederate Flag, bullet holes or of phrases like “if it’s brown it’s down”. Then make sure others take note during hunting season as these hillbillies sport the elk or deer they shoot uncovered in the back of their pick-up or trailer. After that, find a few sensational idiots in the outdoor community such as felons and poachers and create as much publicity around their situations as possible. When that doesn’t work, hit the public with obscure facts or outright fabrications of so-called “scientific evidence” that clearly show that hunting does nothing to curb wildlife populations and even exposes those populations to hard hitting diseases that could decimate their already “managed” populations.
- Find Sympathetic Businesses and Organizations – When the above doesn’t work, get a few so-called “non-profits” who can fight these barbarians using public donations. If you can, do some clever things like get companies that provide common, everyday products like dog food to donate part of their revenues to those same non-profits. Outdoorsmen are pretty dumb and won’t dig deep enough to find out that the product they just bought is actually working against them. These non-profits also bring the added benefit of having Washington D.C. lobbyists at their disposal. These groups are great at working the political circuit and the art of the amendment. That’s right, our lobbyist friends have found crafty ways to attach anti-hunting legislation to bills that have nothing to do with hunting or the outdoors! While all that is going on, we need to point out at every chance we get that our non-profit partners and leaders in business are responsible for the massive turn around in game populations throughout the country. Hunters will lie and suggest the government – through hunting and fishing licenses – are responsible which, of course, is a lie.
- Hit Hollywood Hard – Let’s face it, there is no denying the influence that Hollywood and celebrity actors have on the general public. Many of these same celebrity actors tote around their pets and even dress them up like real people. Find the biggest names in Hollywood you can to take up our cause and publicly humiliate these neanderthals. Don’t forget, these same celebrities have deep pockets and relationships with influential people such as judges and politicians. If Hollywood can get Obama elected, damn it, they can help us outlaw hunting!
- Outlaw Their Tools – Fact is these bozo’s can’t kill or harm an animal if we take away the very tools they depend on. First try hitting them where it hurts most by taking away their guns. If you can’t ban firearms outright, first try to outlaw automatic weapons. Turn it into an issue of public safety deflecting the issue of hunting. Be sure to point to the escalating crime in your area as a reason to get rid of these radical firearms. Once you get automatic guns outlawed, just start climbing the ladder to handguns, shotguns and rifles. While you work on the firearms bans be creative and consider trying to obtain the outright ban of ammunition. Maybe even sue a firearms or ammunition manufacturer for the death of some pour soul in some big city…it doesn’t matter that hunting wasn’t involved.
- Give Them Something Else To Do – If all of the above fails, one thing we have in our hip pocket is that hunting is on the decline. We need to continue pushing distractions such as mobile phones, the Internet and gaming devices like the Wii and Playstation 3. Fact is, kids would rather text, update their Facebook status, or play computer games against each other. This is our Plan B. These hunting fools are too stupid to realize how drastic the decline in hunting licenses are and the positive effect it will have for us moving forward.
The divide and conquer method drives me nuts. Elitists who hate other sportsmen because they don’t agree with their methods don’t do any of us any good. If it’s legal I’m for it. Just because I think Noodling for catfish is a little weird doesn’t mean that it should be shut down. Let’s stand up for each others rights folks.
Yeah, that’s the point I hope more of us take home. Trappers take heat, Fly Fishing anglers come off as snobs (yes, a generalization), but that the more we see our selves as different the easier it is for anti-[whatever] groups.
We are an environmental/wildlife rehab clinic/ animal rights organization, and we’ve been working for years to try and stop people from hunting. It is very difficult. Especially because we are located in WI! Where almost everyone is a redneck hunter. (except us) Your website is very helpful!
Uh, Jordan. You really need to peruse the sites you post to more often. Epic. Fail.
this is a load of crap you will never get me to put down my gun god made us to hunt and eat animals u need to get to the lord ill hunt till the day i die so get over it.
i have the right to bare arms and the right to kill and eat animals. so get over pass laws i still want obey them so get over it.
Now come on guys, this is absurd. Ban hunting???? You make it sound like all we do is head out to the woods and blast every living creature we see. That is absolutely as far from the truth as possible. Sure their are some that are out just to kill something, and trust me they get a ton of grief from us. The vast majority of us hunters are wildlife enthusiasts. I personally hunt every chance I get. I love to be in the woods. I also sit in the woods with a camera. I, along with many of us hunters, love to watch an animal in its natural environment. Now lets see here. Outlaw our weapons. You talk about escalating crime, get rid of the weapons. With no guns in the homes criminals will have no worries when they break into your home. You can just sit there and cry as they steal all of your belongings.
You would rather see kids sit at a computer or game console all day long and gain all sorts of weight (which leads to serious health issues), lose all social interaction skills due to only talking to other by text or Facebook. You would rather have this then have the kids learn about the outdoors, learn firearm safety, get out and see nature. To me that is stupid.
So lets take a look at what would happen if hunting were to be banned. Lets take the whitetail deer. On average a doe will have 2 fawns every year. On a 100 acre lot say, for arguments sake, we have 10 doe on year 1, out of those 10 doe they each have the average of 2 fawns. So the math comes out to 20 fawns. So now we have 30 deer, not counting any buck that were in the are first. Out of those 20 fawns let’s assume that it is an even ratio of buck to does, Now you have 20 does and 10+ bucks. Everything is still alright with the land. Enough food and cover for them all. Year 2, now again we will assume that 80% of the original 10 does made it. (old age or other factors) So 8 get bred again, the 10 doe fawns probably will not get bred this year. So 16 more fawns. Total now is 26 does, 18 bucks. Now year 3 comes along, same thing, lose 2 doe to factors unknown, 8 fawns not bred, leaving 16 bred. 32 fawns born, even split again. So you can see where this is going. Now about year 4 a population explode would happen. The number of deer would be too much for that lot of land to hold. They need to move. They move to were the food is. Your garden! What happens then? Well there are more car deer accidents, which will cause insurance premiums to rise. As more deer are born food is more and more difficult to find. So what happens? The young, weak and old deer starve to death. You want to watch deer slowly starve to death? I know I would not want to watch that. Now with all of this the predators move in. Wolves, coyotes and large cats. Now you think deer breed fast, wolves and coyotes breed 5 times as fast. As their population rises so does the risk of wolves taking livestock or family pets.
And finally what do you think pays for most of the habitat out there? Money from sold hunting licenses. SO without hunting there would be no money to manage the land and to keep valuable habitat for wildlife.
Also you miss the obvious. Hunting of any sort brings very healthy and great tasting food to the table.
Dana,
Uh, I guess I need to make this 100% clear. I don’t believe in stoping the hunting tradition at all. This blog post written purposely to take the opposite view of what I believe in. Just read more of my blog and that would become clearer…
–Tony
Hunters are cruel, barbaric monsters. Put an end to hunting and put all hunters to death. They deserve to die a painful death just like that which they inflict on wildlife. Shame and death to them all!
Whooo! go hunting…stupid city folk
It’s free country!! Enjoy your hamburger!!
I believe in stopping hunting, I love this blog and I am going to try it. I think animals should be thought of first before people. People are monsters and animals don’t know any better and they have feelings to. I think animals should live out thier lives just like people do and we should leave them alone and let them live their lives as they want. And don’t make them suffer by shooting them, poor things have to worry about enough things already and were making it worse. LEAVE THEM ALONE.
By publishing this article you have proven yourself to be just as ignorant as the people which you accuse. Have you ever considered that hunting is a tradition that has been passed down over generations since humans first came into existence. All predators in nature hunt, for sustenance, and humans hunt for the same reasons, as well as tradition. Native American tribes consider the first hunt successfully completed by a male of age to be a rite of passage into manhood because it is a sign that he is capable of providing for a family and for the community. Men and women participate in the sport, not to be “gun touting rednecks,” but often because it strengthens their sense that they have a part in this world, and their peers initiate their growth into a decision-making adult. The practice itself teaches more about right and wrong than any reading of plainly biased articles could ever offer. And think about it this way, the animals that people hunt technically have teh upper hand. They are on a landscape they know better than we do, we are slow and weighed down by equipment and having two legs, and licenses are issued to limit the ability to overkill populations of animals. Try to understand something before you criticize it next time.
Emily, I’ll politely tell you that you are an idiot. Read the comments next time *before* you post. Or maybe the rest of my blog where it’s clear I don’t actually believe in this…
Haha animal rights fags. I reckon you have eaten some sort of meat product recently, and it likely didnt come from a human. get your heads out your asses, check out a documentary sometime. find out how cows are treated and slaughtered. what us hunters do is like poetry compared to that. The average hunter will be knowledgeable enough of his intended target that he only has to take one well placed shot, and the animal will die within seconds, sometimes instantly, feeling very little pain, as opposed to being torn apart by it’s natural predators. Or perhaps it will fall ill to a disease, or starvation. Personally id take a well-placed bullet over any of those things. you’re all so very ignorant, biased and closed-minded.