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maze51 & SK: right on!
labgrade: excellent point, and very true. Well regarded research has shown that plants do exude all sorts of chemicals upon "harvest" to "warn" the others.
Lots of well meaning people have never taken the time to understand ther basic facts of life as they relate to hunting. Everything dies eventually, but because people don't identify animals, like deer, as individuals, they fail to realize that the deer they see year after year aren't the same animals. The one they saw last year probably died of starvation, or was hit by a vehicle. In either case it probably wasn't a "nice" way to go. Contrasted with a quick and clean death by a well placed shot, either by firearm or by bow, I know which one I would choose.
As for the killing, I have to admit that I like it least of any part of hunting, but I still do it. Just killing for the sake of killing, with no purpose, is another issue, and one that each person must reconcile with their own moral center.
--Mike From Iowa
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