I should ad that you should look at some of the videos online regarding what natural predators do for their meat. I've seen one where a pack of coyotes attacked a calf and cow moose. The Cow was trying to defend the calf as much as it could and fought for a while trying to stamp on the coyotes. In the end, it stamped its own calf to death and then watched as the coyotes ate its calf.
There are many animals out there that eat their own offspring.
When duck hunting, walking around a pond just after daylight, I've seen piles of feathers from where other predators have gotten to the ducks first. It's just nature.
Each year, there are always far too many deer to survive the winter. They always over populated. Here are our options:
-Harvest and eat a certain number of them through a tag system so the others can live through the winter relatively comfortably.
-More deer suffer through the winter, none comfortably, with many dying slowly to predators, frostbite and eventually hypothermia and losing their fur from mal nutrition. I've seen that too. It's not pretty.
I feel that the deer I shoot and eat with a bullet through the heart or lungs die much faster and more humanely than through other predators or the horrible winter which, trust me, won't allow all those deer to survive.
The more you see in the world, the more you realize we are a part of it. Many of us are very separated through civilization and technology that we lose sight of this.
Reconnect. Visit a slaughter house. You will lose all 'moral' concerns with regard to hunting.
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