• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    While I don’t condone most whale hunting, regulating the deer population is kinda a mandatory thing in the US.

    Since humans made their way into the western continents they’ve radically changed the ecosystem, especially when it comes to Forest management.

    Humans have become the main predators of deer the populations and if we don’t hunt the population can explode one season to the next, causing a cascading effect on their environment.

    Deer can basically eat just about anything, and once they strip the forest of their natural foods they tend to move on to anything else they can reach. This can lead to large swaths of other animals they compete with to die off, while simultaneously causing health epidemics among the deer population leading to things like chronic wasting disease.

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, I know that angle. And again, veganism and vegeterianism is about necessity.

      Regarding population control of animals that wouks otherwise eat up the ecosystem because humans hunted down all other predators before, it’s a necessity right now.

      However, there is a thing of returning wolves in Europe at the moment. So there is an alternative to hunting and human intervention, resulting in less necessity (granted, human society would need to allow the wolf to make its return and unfortunately, it doesn’t really seem to be the case, but I think you’re getting where I am going with this).

      My point is, as much as necessary, as little as possible (which is something one of my maths teachers taught me, so there’s what you can learn from maths for everyday life).

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        3 hours ago

        However, there is a thing of returning wolves in Europe at the moment. So there is an alternative to hunting and human intervention

        For some areas this would be possible if as you said humans allowed it to happen. However, that’s not really an option for the majority of the country, as the area where wolves would be effective has been reduced via climate change.

        Unfortunately it’s hard to undo 40k years of humans reshaping the ecosystem to work for them. There is no such thing as pristine untouched land, native Americans have been curtailing the environment for millennia.

        My point is, as much as necessary, as little as possible (which is something one of my maths teachers taught me, so there’s what you can learn from maths for everyday life).

        My point was that the deer population is already way way overpopulated, and we actually need more people to hunt if we want to properly manage what remains of our forest.