Thread: Defending hunters

Pieces like Sandra Kyles's make me angry, especially when they don't seem to be very informed about what they are writing about.

The fact is that we do not need to kill animals to control populations. If we leave nature to her own devices things will tend to balance out. For example, natural predators help maintain a balance by killing the sickest and weakest individuals.

If we left animals like deer, possums and rabbits to be killed off by their natural predators in NZ we would trip over them every time we cycled to the health store for our tofu.
On a more serious note though I don't agree with the killing of endangered animals just for the sake of killing them.