WinterBorn
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- #841
How many times do I have to say we have a fix for that, and it isn't Bubba in an old pickup truck with a case of cheap beer.Meat that is donated didn't need to be shot. If you don't need it to feed your family, you don't need it.Very few people hunt for meat, and no one has to. What a clean hamburger, raises a cow, I'm not going to stop you.Hunting also allows someone to provide steroid and antibiotic free, lean meat for their family, friends and even food banks and other charitable organizations.
And the meat donated by hunting organizations have provided millions of meals worth of lean meat to soup kitchens, food banks and other charitable organizations.
So we should let the animals overpopulate and destroy the habitat, thereby dooming themselves and other species to a slow death from starvation?? Yes, there IS a need.
YOu are completely ignorant about the scale of the issue.
In Alabama the whitetail deer population is approximately 1.5 million animals. Wildlife biologists have said that we need to remove one-third of that population each year in order to have a stable herd. Who do we have available to kill 500,000 deer each year? And that is only one species in one state.
The feral hog population is estimated to be over 5 million animals (I have seen estimates as high as 9 million) and they do an estimated $1.5 billion in damages. Care to tell us who we have available to take care of that?
A wild sow is mature at as early as 6 months, and can have 1.5 litters per year. Do the math on that and tell us who we have available to solve this problem?? Texas spends $7 million per year on feral swine control, and is losing the battle.