Do u think hunting just for the sport and not the meat should be outlawed?

Unfortunately, making something illegal doesn't stop it. Laws just prescribe what happens when somebody gets caught, and as any Game Warden can tell you policing The Great Outdoors is no small task.


Personally, I think the systems of regulations in place in most states are about as good as can be managed. Heaping more on only complicates the enforcement task without really improving sustainability.


And besides - where do you draw the line? With deer hunting, for example, there are many hunters that just take the head and the tenderloins and may leave the rest (although they don't generally; it pisses off landowners). Technically, that's hunting for meat but there's a lot of 'waste'. So trying to differentiate one kind of hunting from another just rapidly devolves into legal nit-picking.Do u think hunting just for the sport and not the meat should be outlawed?
It is an ethical issue, not really best suited for government oversight.





I think it is unethical to not eat what you kill, but when I kill a deer, I only take the front and hind quarter and the backstrap. I don't get all the cuts of meat from everywhere. I don't use the bones to make jewelry.





Any law that the government make in this area would be easily circumvented or get good, honest people in trouble with the law.





Nothing you can do about it, except what you do, and what happens on your land. The only headless I've seen were form poachers.Do u think hunting just for the sport and not the meat should be outlawed?
No. Despite your personal beliefs (and mine) that you should consume the animal that you harvest, hunting does more than just feed people. You also have to take into consideration all the conservation regulations that help keep animals populations regulated at an acceptable level. Also, how could the government legitamately enforce such a regulation? They can't. Whether you like the idea or not, all types of hunting benefit the animals and us alike.
There are two sides to this question, and my answer. I am an avid hunter and sportsman for 25 years and agree with both types for certain animals. First, MOST animals that are hunted are used for meat and people that don't eat or use the meat are not hunters. Second, when one is talking armadillos, coyotes, prairie dogs, etc, killing is more of just population check and balance. It is a necessary evil. I agree we also need that type of 'sport-hunting'.
Not only is that not right, it is illegal under the Fish and Game Act of Canada, and whatever the American equivalent is. It states directly that one must do everything in their power to not only prevent spoilage of any part of a killed animal, but to track any wounded game animal until either found or until it is untrackable.
2nd answer's got it!


And as for your step dad no thats not right he's just bringing the horns home and not the rest you should talk to him about that. Say it's not right and if he gets caught by the forset service he will get fined....well in california anyways i dont know about other states.
Turn your step dad into the game warden. He is committing the act of ';wanton waste.'; This may be illegal in your state. Only losers hunt like he does. Fortunately there are not very many of these losers around. They are more like criminals than anything.





He is giving a bad name to ethical hunters and should be held accountable for his actions.
even if that happened, there would be no way to really control it. poaching is illegal, but it still happens





i hunt, but i'd pass up a smaller buck for a larger one, but i'd eat what i killed though. like someone else said, just because you have a trophy on the wall doesn't mean the meat wasn't eaten.
Yes. When I find headless deer laying in the bush I really get p1ssed off about trophy hunters.(I have found a couple too) That said I hunt for horns and turn down quite a few smaller bucks every year. When I do shoot a deer you can bet I use the whole thing. Tough problem to control though.
I'm amazed how many answers show ignorance:





Most states ALREADY have (and enforce) law against ';wanton waste'; of game.





Most hunters do eat what they kill.





The image of the trophy hunter mowing down animals for the sheer joy of killing is largely a myth spread by anti-hunters.
Trophy hunting isn't normally allowed anyhow. Willfull wasting of game animals is a crime.


Just because someone has a deer mount on their wall doesn't mean the rest of the meat went to waste, you do understand this simple precept don't you?
Yea they should i mean if i killed a deer i give it away to some one who wanted or needed it not to sound like a saint of anything but who the hell keeps just a head. u can have a truck parked on the side of the road and sell the meat at least. lol
That would be fine with me, but how would you enforce that law? Ans what animals would it apply to? For example, deer are usually eaten, as are geese and ducks. But say someone shoots a rabbit for sport -- how are you going to make them eat it?
Yes. When you think about it, a person who hunts is really saying '; My favourite hobby is to go out and kill things for fun '; ( excluding the ones who eat the meat)





On the other hand, there's no real way to monitor that anyway
no. meat hunting is part of the sport. no real hunter kills for the sport alone. we eat all that we kill. if i don't eat it, i don't kill it. period
straight up NO! i hunt but i eat what i kill, others eat what i've killed and give to them. if he donated the processed animal to homeless shelter or food bank that would be different. too kill for trophy is immoral.
anyone who hunts and does not use the meat is a poacher and it is already illegal





your step dad is not a hunter and you should turn him in
sounds just like when the white man came here and killed all the buffalo just for fun