From: keREM0VEvin_c75@yahMUNGEoo.com.bogus   
      
   On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:50:24 +0100, Helen Hall   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >I don't think there is such an extreme dichotomy as he's trying to make   
   >out. When it comes to hunting, I usually sit firmly on the fence because   
   >the issues are very complicated and far from black and white. For one   
   >thing a whole variety of different activities are lumped under the   
   >general heading of "hunting", some of which I think are perfectly OK and   
   >some I don't.   
      
   Shrug. That's just my perspective. Maybe there's not such a strong   
   dichotomy. OTOH, I don't look for anyone to change anyone's mind.   
      
   I don't think anyone cares for poaching. Some hunters over here will   
   try to bend the rules, so to speak (and some fishermen, too), on   
   issues such as limits. Then there's the baited field issues. Of   
   course, the game wardens are aware of this, and like to drop by to say   
   howdy at big dove hunts. But out and out poaching is generally held as   
   reprehensible.   
      
   There's other issues that crop up. Locally it's frowned upon to waste   
   meat. I think most states have laws requiring an effort be made to   
   retrieve game.   
      
   There's probably other areas of agreement. One of the reasons we have   
   seasons and ended market hunting was to preserve species.   
   Unfortunately that was after the passing of the Passenger Pigeon.   
      
   - Kevin J. Cheek   
      
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