Mornin Beef wrote:OK I am about to go vegan on this: I hate the discriminatory nature of it (trapping). The lack of specificity reeks of opportunism. Yes there is a market for it. Maybe one of the truest forms of free markets there is left. I have issues with trapping within the fragmented, human manipulated landscapes the tradition is allowed to occur within. Its too much AT! Go to Alaska to trap if you have to keep the hardcore tradition up.
I have no problem with trapping. In truth I encourage all hunters, wing shooters especially to help protect the sport. The area I live in is basically infested with skunks, opossum, coons, foxes, ferral cats ,and yotes. They hammer all the upland and waterfowl birds every summer.Raiding nest killing chicks and a good portion of the time catching and killing the hen. I have no problem burning down all those varmits I mentioned on sight. The damage they do to the nesting population of game birds around here is astounding. Trapping in my opion is the only real way to put a balance on the whole situation. Furthermore the fact that you find the sport of trapping to be morally wrong on some level proves how big of a dildo your really are. Every hunter should be a consevationalist to some degree. A duck hunter particularly, has a responsibility to help protect waterfowl by keeping the preditors in check. I'm not suggesting we should kill every egg eater. Just most of them.
