Here is a rebutal I wrote to an editor of a newspaper. Someone from the Northeast had posted the article and I wrote this and sent it in as a rebutal to the article:


I have lost many hours sleep thinking about the thoughtless way in which hunting has been portrayed. In the bible Genesis 9 Verse 3 God said to Noah "All moving things that liveth shall be meat for you." Genesis 27 Verse 3 "Now therefore take, I pray thee,thy weapons,THY QUIVER AND THY BOW,and go out to the field and take some venison." Man has hunted for survival since the dawn of time and that is the way god meant for it to be. The good Lord decided to bless this earth with both predators and prey. Humans were put here as predators.
There are two kinds of meat eaters on this planet, predators and scavengers. Predators kill there own food, scavengers eat because others kill. The simple fact is that animals were put on the face of the earth to feed humans. I get beside myself when I see an animal rights hypocrite stand there and tell me how inhumane it is that I hunt and he is standing there in leather shoes with a leather wallet. My favorite is “there is no need to hunt today we can buy the food”. I must be confused because I assumed that someone had to kill the chicken or the cow before they got to the grocery store but some how that is all right. If you eat meat or use animal products than you are just as guilty of “animal murder” as the man at the slaughterhouse, because you ordered the “HIT”. If a human put an order out to kill another human then they would be just as guilty as the person that committed the murder. So why should you not be held responsible for ordering your chicken salad or your “Nike” jogging shoes.
Most of the hunters I know are kind, compassionate, careful and courteous. However, in hunting just like every other “walks of life” we have our bad apples that tend to make the rest of us look bad. But, I don’t judge you as a reckless driver because other people drive while intoxicated. It is time we disassociate the term “hunter” with the various negative connotations.
I have been hunting all my life and I am proud to say that I share my passion with some of the best people in the world. I absolutely detest people that are cruel to animals. I would not hesitate for one moment to turn a family member in that hit or mistreated his animals. However, deer hunting is not an inhumane activity. I would also like to point out what a tremendous comeback that almost all of our game species have made. We owe this to the concerned sportsman. You will never find anyone as interested in the preservation of our eco system as sportsmen are. With society spreading further and further and infringing on the animal’s habitat, it is the sportsman who have provided the monetary means necessary to secure both Federal and State wildlife sanctuaries for the animals. It is the sportsman that put millions of dollars every year toward the restoration of habitat. I certainly respect any human’s decision not to hunt; however I wish others would respect my right to hunt. Without the hunter as a part of the eco system the entire system would break down. Without hunters, game would over populate. Once the game began to overpopulate, in breeding would occur. Once the animals began to inbreed they would progressively tend to produce more inferior genes. After the inferior genes began to permeate the species, diseases would start through the weakened animals and eventually the species would either cease to exist or face a major die-off. Personally the thought of a deer starving to death over a period of months sounds a lot less humane than the thought of one dying instantly without even knowing.