I really don’t think people appreciate either how important hunting is.
In Wisconsin, we have more than 600,000 registered deer hunters, which by itself makes it the 8th largest army on earth, bigger than the armies of Germany and France combined… just to keep the deer population in that state intact.
People who live outside of North America simply aren’t aware just how numerous and crazy the wildlife gets in America… a lot of the top tier predators like wolvers, and even terror birds are dead, and bringing wolves back on a large scale is out of the question (they got wiped out for a reason.)
Either way, deer are being killed and eaten by humans or nonexistent wolves, if you don’t, their numbers will explode into impossible numbers, our cities would be conquered, and then a mass pestilence would roll in periodically, dropping their rotting bodies into our vegan organic gardens.
Its better to go fast with a bullet than get chased for a few miles, then ripped apart slowly by a pact of wolves.
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We kill 6.2 million deer a year. Thats legally hunted on public lands, on private lands, or illegally, hard to say.
Deers can live easily up to 12 years, but most don’t last that long, a few breeding seasons at best. By age 12, their teeth fall out, and they starve. They aren’t designed to be the top life forms around, they reproduce from a young age.
If they live longer, with no natural predators, their population will triple to quadruple within two decades, it currently stands at 30 million in the US… that’s 90 to 120 million. In another 20 years, 360 to 480 million. Thats right, in about 40 years, we can have two deer running down our roads for every person in the US.
We most kill them, before they kill us, and die miserably, starving in extremely depleted Flora environments. Their evolution requires predatorial pressures, you cannot put a condom on these guys… by default now, WE MUST KILL THEM!
Now, if we have go kill then, why can’t they be eaten? It seems a silly rule to have armies of vegans shoot the deer, and leave them to rot.
This number doesn’t include other types of animals we have to hunt to keep their populations in check… people don’t realise just how big America is. How quickly diseases rabies can spread without occasional cullings.