Ownership of land and animals does not allow you to do whatever you want with them. I am stating this not so much as a personal opinion, but as a legal fact. Having a debate about what a person can and should be allowed to do with his livestock is not why I posted this.
I posted this because hunting as a sport is dying. Fewer people get in to hunting every year. That means less leverage can be applied to politicians when they are deciding what, when, where and how we are going to hunt. To make matters worse, people ( as in voters ) are more removed from nature every year. It used to be that most of the people in the big cities either came from a farm, or had relatives that still had farms.
Spending time in rural areas allows people a chance to see how nature works. They also get a chance to see the positive effects hunting has on hunters, their families and even the animals being hunted. We are rapidly moving in to a time where the voters know nothing about hunting, and we are too small of a group for the politicians to fear.
You might say I don't care what other people think of hunting. Well guess what, they don't care what you think either. At some point these people whose opinions you don't care about are going to decide if you can hunt or not. It will probably not affect us, but it will our kids.
If hunters are not outraged by the unethical behavior of some pretend hunters than it's just one more nail in the coffin.
