NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/talk/environm/4695

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From: [e-mail] (Graeme Montagu)
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Subject: Animal Ethics?
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:51:00 GMT
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 -=> Quoting Truman Fenton to All <=-

 TF> I have heard a great deal of talk about ethics and animal treatment.
 TF> I agree that no animal should be tortured.  That I WILL take for
 TF> granted. However,  why is it unethical to hunt?  I will agree that
 TF> standing back fro 300 yards with a dear rifle is not cunning or sporty,
 TF> but is it unethical?  If an animal is killed only for a trophy and the

 Unfortunately, I couldn't reply to your question from an ethical
 point of view, but I sincerely believe that hunting is justified.  It
 is a singularly major source of foreign investment in rural areas of
 sub-Saharan Africa.  Funds obtained from the trophy hunting of game is
 given back to the rural community of that area.  The animal carcass
 is also consumed by the locals.  In so doing, the continued existence
 of both endangered wildlife and local human community is ensured in
 co-existence.

Regards
Graeme


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