AR-News: Private Game Management: A Critical Analysis

[jim robertson]

Private Game Management: A Critical Analysis
Photos and Story by BGH Staff

Posted on: 03/17/02 [5 Comments]


Big game hunting in the wild is an accepted practice in nearly every corner 
of the world. Occasionally the practice of hunting does come under fire by 
lobbying groups that believe the consumption of meat is wrong and would put 
hunters in the same class as animal torturers. However, despite these 
efforts most people (including those that do not hunt) believe that hunting 
in the wild is acceptable as it has been since the dawn of man and our food 
sources were not domesticated.

Note the statement is big game hunting in the wild. If we take the same 
animals and the same hunters and enclose them within a high fence, you have 
created the most hotly debated subject in hunting, high fence hunting. 
Furthermore, if we take the same fences with the same animals and instead of 
hunters supplant them with ranchers, harvesting the game for sale of the 
meat to restaurants and grocers the practice becomes even more embattled, 
because it implies domestication of wild game.

High fence hunting and the domestication of wild game (here on known as 
"private game management") are at the heart of a growing battle that will 
shape the future of big game hunting.

full story:
http://www.biggamehunt.net/sections/Politics/Private_Game_Management_A_Critical_Analysis_03170212.html
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