Should You be Hunting? (A Message to Non-Hunters & Anti-Hunters)

hi everyone adrian here and welcome to wild bush and grit today in this episode very difficult topic i'd like to discuss and it's the ethical questions around hunting should we be hunting i want this video to to serve non-hunters to maybe make up their mind whether they should be hunting or not and also want to set the record straight on some of the stuff that i've been reading online about hunters from anti-hunters literature which i find funny sometimes ludicrous or completely bogus and you know it's like i feel like there's a lot of dishonesty on from entire hunter propaganda on huntings in order you know for them to to win the general public opinion and win their case and have hunting to be banned all together let me start with why i hunt and for you non-hunter looking into hunting you can decide whether it's for you or not that's me maybe that's what this is not going to be the reason for you but anyway me personally what drove me to hunt is to get access to great quality food bottom line this is where it start for me for me now entire hunter says that we're causing pain and trouble and ancestry pain to the animals and all that that we're killing for fun and to me as a hunter actually getting quality meat also means that getting animal that hasn't been abused in their lives okay we've seen we've read lots of report on the big industrial complex of the meat production how meat becomes meat the overcrowded farm all the the pathology animals are developing and all these things and me going out there and hunting kind of subtract myself from that equation i am not funding that food complex and i am actually i take my dollar somewhere else i'm actually funding wildlife management and i'm getting my meat from where it should be coming from that's basically how i see it now i'm well aware we cannot all be hunters that wouldn't be sustainable so to me to hunt today is a privilege and i'm super grateful to be able to do that um hunter causing pain and killing animals and all this you know yes yes we are killing animals yes we are hurting them sometimes um are we doing it unnecessarily no i don't think anyone is out there unless psychopath to just inflict pain on animals i you know i've i have lots of friends who hunts and none of them never ever came in the conversation that you know some one of us like to see the pain in the animal eyes or whatever we're in that psychopath it's you know that idea that we're killing for fun is ludicrous the and again in hunting you have good apples you have bad apples like on the road you have good drivers and bad drivers bad drivers don't make the norm and pita and friends seems to ignore that fact okay the bad apples doesn't make the norm that cherry-picking stories that only confirm your narrative is dishonest in my opinion if you want to represent hunting and convince the general public that hunting is bad please take hunting in its entity don't cherry-pick like it's like if tomorrow i were to make a case against car and i would only picking all the bad accident that happened in recently and this is driving see driving has killed x amount of people last year driving is bad please ban driving this is very dishonest because this is not what driving is okay that tendency to generalize and take horrible stories and apply that to the whole group i feel personally attacked and insulted when i'm saying stuff like that and it's one of the reason why i'm making this video is i hope that video can shed some light and actually help other people understand why hunters usually do and what we are after you know what makes us do what we do and if you're a non-hunter looking into hunting you're not sure whether you should do or not i highly recommend you to watch um meat eater it's a show hosted by steve rinella and i think you know it's he is way more eloquent than i am on the subject and it's a great place for you to start you know if you want to understand what hunters are after i think stiffer-in-law is a good reference so are we causing harm to animals i don't think we're causing any more harm to animals to what they're susceptible to receive okay or to the animals that are being farmerized and let me explain that so anti-hunters tend to project their experience and their life onto other animals and thinking this is the norm for our life form on earth and they're mistaken in the fact that the life in the wild is not alive in the city us human usually we will die of disease in our beds surrounded by friend and family but truth is most deer for example will not die peacefully you know they will not grow old and curl up into a ball one night and die in their sleep they will as they grow old they will weaken they will either die or starvation or they will be eaten by another predator and i believe and i'm sure that my rifle will kill a deer with way less pain that a wolf will inflict to a deer or 2-3 weeks of starvation can do to an animal um and i'm not you know coming here saying hey i'm an angel of mercy and you know i'm actually taking away all that pains from these animals that's what i'm seeing i'm sure the few seconds that i'm shooting that deer i'm sure the pain is real the struggle is real i'm well aware of that but what i'm saying is i am not causing more more pain to that animal that it would have already endured okay there is a nuances here and i hope you catch that the animal that i took already contributed to the cycle to the circle of life that it was part of with and i am part of that circle of life i am not outside of wildlife anti-hunters tends to see humans here during their things and the wildlife here doing their things this is far from being truth humans and wildlife are intertwined it's to me it's the same thing and actually dissociating ourselves from that wildlife is where this kind of disconnection starts and you're not seeing white life or what it is uh because you don't see the correlation between wildlife and yourselves i know i am part of that circle i know the tools that i'm using in wild life are unconventional so to speak but the brain we got as humans all other animals use their what they have to that our advantage to survive and this is what humans do as well um you know funny things that i'm reading online is like oh yeah if you're such a big man why don't you go hunt bare hand it's like i don't need to hunt bird and it's i mean [Laughter] i'm trying to get meat why would i go out and and hunt bare hands what that doesn't make sense and you know what okay let's assume i was going out and hunt bare hand do you know the amount of pen i have to inflict a deer for it to die with my bare hand i could i know i can kill a deer with my bare hand but the problem is the suffering and the stress that animal will will feel no no i you know i don't hate deers i like them i also like to eat them but when i kill them i want to do it cleanly and the idea of using bare hands to go hunt an animal is just anyway i don't want to say it but it's not very mature okay there's a lot of non-hunter that are not vegan okay and they don't have you know what they say like in our conversation it's like they they say they don't have in them what will make them kill a deer because they can't they can't do it and this is fine you know most of this is what most of the people actually are on the planet and it's okay you know get your meat from the store and that's fine i understand but an entire hunter that is not vegan meaning like his anti-hunting but he goes eat burgers and ham and you know bacon i think you're confused my friend i think you're really confused and you need to sort things out in your mind before we can engage in a comprehensible debate uh i see no difference and actually there is one difference and but i see no difference between eating an animal that is farm-raised versus an animal that is harvested in wildlife the difference that i see is the animal that has been harvested in wildlife had a normal life and has contributed ecologically in its own habitat and circle of life so to me that's a plus so the true question on whether which you know about hunting and all these things is actually to me it was it boils down to should we be eating meat or not yeah and this is a question that is worth discussing anything else doesn't matter as long as we don't solve that first riddle should we be eating meat to me the answer is easy and it's yes and why it's because well that's very simple humans are omnivore we've evolved to eat all sort of food making sure that we all we have some sort of food source somewhere and that's how we manage to evolve and survive up until today you know an animal that is very um like koalas for example who only eat eucalyptus are highly susceptible to disappear tomorrow you know if there is a disease and all the eucalyptus tree were to disappear the koala will disappear with it okay but one of our strengths is by being omnivore we survive through many disaster in the past up until today why change things now i don't know i don't know i tried being vegetarian not even vegan vegetarian for a month and i didn't like it you know after a few weeks i was craving for that juicy steak you know and it's uh it's profoundly ingrained in my own dna to actually crave meat now that being said being a hunter actually made me reduce my meat consumption because i usually now from now on i'm eating most of the time not always but most of the time i'm eating meat that i kill and yes you know i'm capable of having a complete lunch complete day without eating meat but at some point during the week that crepes kicks in so i guess you know we'll have to see like to me the main argument for vegan is today we have the capability to sustain ourselves without the need to kill an animal and survive right okay so we can eat a lot of stuff that doesn't require us to kill an animal to eat and they're right we can my question is me personally i have a strange feeling about that moral stance on that moral ground there varies based on your social context so if today someone living in a city doesn't need to kill an animal so it's you know he's vegan it's fine but that person that lives far off north in alaska or northern quebec who relies on hunting all of a sudden that's okay for that person to eat meat so to me it's it you know it's i personally have problem with that varying morality you know like usually when i have a moral stance on something no context can make it change and let me explain that so for example one of my strong stance and usually i'm i'm i'm a moderate guy and that's you know i never see rarely see things in black and white everything is a shade of gray for me except except maybe one thing which is the concept of human decency and the respect we owe to each other this to me is i will never i will never move away steer away from that moral concept there is no context in which this will vary to me okay and no matter what happens society collapse or whatever i will always respect other human being and understand their right you know that we have the same right the for anti-hunters to me that concept of eating meat is actually something that can fluctuate based on your context where it's more acceptable if there was a society collapse and we couldn't produce the food that we're producing today all of a sudden it will be okay to hunt and eat meat so if it's okay then if it was okay back then why all of a sudden it's not okay now because we only have the capability of making it so anyway it's you know it's it's not that concept doesn't gel for me maybe you can explain in the comments please like and i'm making this to spark conversation so we can engage in comprehensible dialogues all right uh i hope i've been respectful to your ideology so far and i also expect you to do the same when you enter your comments okay i will not engage with people that are not looking into dialogue uh name calling or you know threatening with violence i will not respond to that actually if you're even threatening with violence this is super weird because you're against violence against the animal derf but you allow yourself to be violent against other human beings yes you're confused anyway thank you for watching this video please let me know in the comments what you think i know this is not an easy subject we all had oh wait a minute one more one more thing i want to discuss and it's the especially to anti-hunter who find themselves confronting hunters in the wild and i'm saying this because not everyone is aware but there are laws and regulation that you need to know and the first thing is preventing someone from lawfully hunting or fishing is illegal okay and if you find yourself interfering with someone angling or hunting in any shape or your form making noise carrying away animals or whatever you could face fines you could you could face charges fines and even jail time okay so be careful what you do when you're out there so hunters know you're right no no if you're in your right to hunt and fish no one no one can come and stop you from doing what you're doing let them know that you're aware of your rights and that you're not afraid to call authorities if needed be they need to understand that if they have a problem with hunting and fishing they can take that up to the lawmakers it's not for them to solve it with you okay one thing i can mention also is the contribution of hunters and anglers to wildlife conservations and this is an argument that anti-hunters usually hate to hear and the reason is being the for them they're only seeing that as yes but you're only paying to maintain something that you're using it's not that simple and it's not that black and white conservation helps everything helps everyone helps wildlife and he'll also help other human being the the it's not only about the game animal that we're after it helps the entire ecosystem and today today if there are parks that people are able to go in and hike and camp that a lot of it it's due to the fact that hunters and anglers has been paying out their pocket for a century and these parks today exist because of the contribution of hunters and anglers all right and this is something entire hunters don't want to give us but this is something i'm very proud of to be part of and if those parks weren't secured or saved they all would have been in the hand of big corporations today for water for mining forestry all these things so it's um know i i hope entire hunters stop seeing us as enemy because we're killing bambi's and the actually truly seeing what actually happened out there and what we're responsible of okay uh d-d-d-d and i plead them to not take some of the exceptions to the rules you know the gory image that we see of some unscrupulous individuals and don't make it the norm do not attach me to these people because i am not these people and no one in its right mind kills for fun no one in its right mind like to see animals suffering so please stop the lie on putting this on the back of all hunters and anglers thank you um all right now i'm done so thank you so much for watching this video um please let me know in the comments what you think what are your experiences in the past i'm sure we all has our we all had our runnings with anti-hunters or discussion and even you know within family and debate and all that so what's your what are your argument for hunting whether argument against hunting i'd like to know um you know we're here to share with her to exchange and it's only through honest honest dialogues that we will move forward okay

Channel: Wild Bush & Grit

Views: 120

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: anti hunting, anti hunter, hunting heritage, anti hunter gets owned, is hunting bad, anti hunters vs hunters, anti hunters harassing hunters, anti hunting activists, anti hunting arguments, anti hunting debate, anti hunting legislation, anti hunting laws, anti hunting facts, anti hunting articles, anti hunting movement

Id: iVwCg8nAmlY

Length: 20min 59sec (1259 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 17 2021