Ashley Peterson NDGF Deer Hunting Photo Credit
A new survey found that while 30 percent of Americans have gone hunting, many more have strong feelings about what we should be allowed to hunt. Turkeys (71 percent allowed), deer (69 percent) and wild hogs (68 percent) all come in substantially as possible targets. However, wolves (just 28 percent), mountain lions (26 percent), whales (seven percent) and bald eagles (four percent) come in conspicuously lower. That last one pretty much confirms the polling rule of thumb that about one in 20 Americans love messing with pollsters. This is only the start of the scholarship on the issue, of course. The survey did not get into more complicated ethical questions related to hunting, such as “Can you hunt a consenting human on your private island if you sort of offer them a deal?” “Is it okay for an alien creature known a the Yautja to hunt an elite paramilitary unit acting on an off-books mission in the jungles of Central America?” “Expanding on that, does your opinion change if the hunt instead takes place in a heat wave in Los Angeles?” “Finally, do you think it is okay for a Yautja to hunt a Xenomorph — referred to in their culture as kiande amedha or ‘hard meat’ — as part of their rite of passage?”
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