Belize Govt Shuts Down "cattle" Hunt

[ozark trout fisher]

Wait, so killing Bambi is more humane than killing Beefy (Bambi's raised for slaughter cousin)?

Hmmmm.... How do you spin that one? lol

Deer at the least get to live a normal, natural life up until the time they are harvested. Cattle, not so much

[FishinCricket]

Deer at the least get to live a normal, natural life up until the time they are harvested. Cattle, not so much

How do you define "normal, natural life"?

Wait, don't answer that.. lol

[Fly_Guy]

Beefy - the lesser read childrens story

[ozark trout fisher]

How do you define "normal, natural life"?

Wait, don't answer that.. lol

I won't. It's not really something that is up for debate anyway. It's just the way I feel about hunting and it ain't gonna change.

[taxidermist]

Ok, I have to jump in here. Water Buffalo are not typical domestic cattle. while yes if you start with them at birth you can train them to pull a plow or cart. The wild ones are as dangerous as Cape Buffalo and will kill you if you encroach into their territory. They are not easy to kill as the way the ribs lay and the thickness of the hide is much like armor. While not my choice of animals to hunt, I certainly would not turn my back on one.

In recent years some of the fighting bull breeds have been released near the border of America and Mexico and they can be far more dangerous than Cape Buffalo as these have no fear of men. I do know of a few people that have shot several of each.

I have no probelem killign an animal if I am going to eat it. God put them here for man to use and I feel really good right now as I just ate a home grown farm raise burger that beats most steaks for flavor!

Water Buffalo is lean and pretty tasty, not beef but still good.

[taxidermist]

Bet none of you like Kosher beef?

[emjay]

In case anyone wanted to try one. My parents raise them. I'll cut ya a deal at $2500 LOL

See that bull? Yes, my dad is able to put a rope there and take it where he wants. Not to fool you though because, my uncle got his mid-section tore up by another bull we have.

[3wt]

3wt, I see your point. But I will at least speak for myself in saying that I do not get any kind of rush out of killing an animal. To be honest with you it always makes me sad. It is a way of gathering meat, a way that seems more natural and humane than the other way meat is procured-animals raised purely for the slaughterhouse. I could maybe consider fishing to be sport, but not hunting. It's just too serious, too complex. When an animal is dying it isn't a game, and I think a lot of people miss that.

Believe me I have no problem with hunters, but hunting personally has never held much interest for me. I don't really like watching animals die. I'm no crazy vegan or anything like that; I eat them, I'll eat any game somebody offers me, but I don't really want to watch a deer bleed to a slow death. I absolutely get that they lived a real wild life, and death is as much a part of nature as life is for a wild animal.

Canned hunts just feel like sombody dropping an 8 lb trout off in my bathtub for me to snag in the face with a wooly bugger.

[FishinCricket]

Canned hunts just feel like sombody dropping an 8 lb trout off in my bathtub for me to snag in the face with a wooly bugger.

A bathtub? That just ain't right...

Now a swimming pool... Hmmmm... :scratches_chin_and _contemplates:

[Quillback]

I have no problem with these canned hunts, first because it provides some entertaining reading here

I would not do it myself, and it isn't remotely close to real hunting, but I don't condemn those who do these "hunts".

I remember a while back, maybe 10-15 years ago, there was a scandal involving zoos and these Texas hunting exoctic hunting ranches. Zoos were selling (at auctions) surplus animals to the ranches, and the ranches were in turn charging people to shoot them. There were big bucks involved, rare animals were going for big bucks. PETA types found out and that was that...no more auctions. Don't know where these ranches get there animals these days, but I bet someone is making some money selling to them.