A 19-Year-Old Cheerleader Who Hunts Endangered Animals

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Originally Posted by _Q_

Carnivorous land animals I should have said. We eat Carnivorous fish and birds all the time.

Would still be incorrect.

The statement I think you're looking for is that certain people do not eat certain animals based on their culture, cultural upbringing, geographic location and personal value system. Other people may have different cultures, beliefs and this may play a role in differing diets.

[Vulcan]

I always understood that it isn't a good idea to eat predators. Personally I wouldn't eat a meat eater. Well I've eaten bear but it was after it had been feasting on berries.

Though wild lions aren't killed for food, there's concern that weak or poorly regulated laws regarding the ownership, breeding, and trade of captive big cats in the U.S.—in particular tigers—could fuel the black market for big-cat parts, Will Gartshore, senior program officer for U.S. Government Relations at WWF, said in an email.
Handling wild-carnivore carcasses can also be dangerous, Hunter said. Since the predators end up eating so many different animals, they accumulate parasites and diseases. In 2007, for instance, a biologist in Arizona contracted primary pneumatic plague after dissecting a cougar carcass and died shortly after.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...cience-nation/

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by GP_Matt

I think you are combining poaching with hunting on a game reserve.

Poaching is illegal and makes the news when it is done for things like ivory. In those cases the poachers will leave the animal because they are trying to get away quickly with the ivory.

Hunting on a game reserve is private land. The owner lets you come on his land and gives you a price sheet of all the animals you can shoot and how much you will pay. The owner also provides a guide to go with you to make sure that you follow all of the rules. I am pretty sure that the guide will arrange for the animal butchered if the hunter doesn't want the meat.
If they leave the meat in the bush it is because the reserve wants it that way, not because they are lazy.

Your probably right on that distinction. Wasn't so much I was confusing the two as just kinda lumping it all in to one, but yeah.

I guess poaching would include a lot of things though, not just times when groups want to harvest big money items like ivory and tiger testicles that are usually illegal. It can include people who kill over a limit, in areas they are not supposed to, or during times they are not supposed to. Not just animals they are not supposed to. That includes people in our own back yard who just like to shoot things whether they are endangered or not, or have high money body parts or not. I guess that's more of what I was thinking. People who like to just go an kill animals for the 'sport' of it. Maybe it's just my own personal experience but I once came across a deer (elk?) carcass that had been felled and pretty much just left there.

While I'll admit that it is an extremely rare occurrence, it still happens and I would wager, more often than a lot of us are comfortable with. Although as I said, maybe it's my personal feelings on the subject and the fact I saw the outcome of it once, that it feels like a problem to me. I dunno.

[Tron_fdc]

Stuff like this always reminds me of the Far Side