Listening to Rinella my 1st time, I thought how can this young guy talk with authority about anything hunting... till I found out that he was / is a trapper. A word I've not uttered do to the world I live in these days, but I used to trap for my Christmas money. I trapped from the time I was strong enough to set a trap and pull my wagon, till I left high school. If you have trapped, you have had to pay attention to things in nature that most people do not or will not learn, by hunting or fishing. I think. Plus the discipline learned to run a trap line, checking them daily before school or work, usually in some cold weather.
The last 15 minutes of the podcast is pure gold - profound thought-provoking stuff Steve R. Lays out .... stuff I never thought about it b4 hearing this
Except don’t skip the ads, if you want to support a channel that is free content, at least listen to the ads that’s how the content is able to be created. You get to pay 5 minutes for an hour and a half.
What concerns me is, the issue of poaching and increased theft and trespassing on private land.Also the lack of respect and morale of hunting on top of someone already hunting that area.
I am not a hunter but Rinella has peaked my interest to the point where I believe I will partake in the activity at some point of my life. I consider myself more informed because of him.
The wolf debate is very tough personally I am an avid hunter and outdoorsman I live in Colorado as well. I go hunting every year I started at 13 years old I am now 31 and every year from that first year the moose population has exploded every year from that first year we see more moose then elk most years now it is so awesome to see a once threatened animal that you might never see in the wild of Colorado to pretty much guaranteed. ( I have a friend coming hunting for the first time this year and I told him I won’t guarantee we’ll see elk but I guarantee we’ll see some moose!). I love the thought of wolves in Colorado I would love to be on a ridge watching wolves in there habitat chases prey and eating. People aren’t thinking about where the wolves are going to thrive because of where the prey animals all hang out the largest herds of elk for example are in city’s like evergreen, Estes park, conifer. So what are people going to think when wolves are taking down their prey on the golf courses in front yards back yards roadways people are not see that these are animals and are gonna do what is in their DNA. Let wolves naturally come back to Colorado slowly not all at once mule deer are another animal I can see the wolves reeking havoc on them and they are less aggressive. So PLEASE RESIDENTS OF COLORADO DO RESEARCH!!! Before voting on just flying in wolves. Steve and Tim your both great!! Thank you and keep up the great work!!
Listen to Earthling Ed's episode about hunting and read The Secret Wisdom of Nature, Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things by Peter Wohlleben.
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Listen to Steven talk about being in the presence of large predators makes me think of "Monsters of God" by David Quammen, it is exactly about people who live in environments with large predators that could (and do) kill and eat them.
I live int he Eastern UP of Michigan. I see wolves daily within a quarter mile of my house. In my yard in the winter. However, deer sights in general are a lot lower than a decade ago. Haven't seen a decent sized buck in years.
I pay $15 dollars a month for You Tube Red and and still have to sit here and listen to over 5 minutes of advertisement’s. Geez man.. Rinella is worth it though!!!
@Semper Fortis but the animals you eat also need to eat. Most of the crops are actually grown as food for the meat industry, resulting in much lower caloric returns and higher water consumption than if you would eat the crops directly.
painfully simplistic & ignorant. Steve's style of hunting is the opposite of animal abuse. Dying by hunter is a merciful death. newsflash: almost zero wild animals die of old age. they're either eaten (often alive), viciously murdered by predators, starve, are injured and die a slow & painful death of exposure. go to @natureismetal on instagram for a reality check goofball
@@tbomber depends who you ask if its a mercyful death - the animal would not forcedly agree. If the animal was not suffering in any way you can not say it was a mercyful death. Otherwise you could apply the exact same principle to us humans - how many humans die under needless suffering circumstances? Is that a reason to kill them when they are in perfect health because they might die one day suffering a lot? I think we can agree that your arguments make no sense when you would apply them to us humans which are just another species living on this planet earth, but to which your arguments should also be applicable. We destroy a lot of the living habitats of the animals and then say that there is a overpopulation in the space they have left to justify that we just help the ecosystem by hunting, thats just not wrong!
@@Laura-je2uw you are seriously flawed in your logic. Animals wouldnt have a single wildlife refuge if not for hunters. The amount of money alone [vegans and PETA and all anti hunting groups] put into wildlife conservation / habituation/ reintroduction etc. is damn near ZERO..and the hunting community that does more for wildlife conservation than any other group combined.
What's the deal with vegans needing to tell everyone they're vegan? Far more animals die a horrible death for vegan food. But insects arent cute and fluffy so you don't care?
Tim, check out Cosmic Skeptic’s video “Vegan vs Hunter” where he easily destroys every “point” Steven tries to make in his attempt to justify killing animals.
Don't you think that hunting is preferable to animal agriculture? For me, it is the absolute control we have over the reproduction of livestock animals that is most disgusting. Selectively breeding weak and tame animals that are easy to kill because they are defenceless and trust us is very cowardly. The only reason you would consider hunting and farming animals morally equivalent is if you have believe that we ought to reduce animal suffering, or if you attribute animals a right not to be killed. In any case, when we step out of our Civilisation and into the Jungle, our morality doesn't apply. There is plenty of suffering in the Jungle and animals die all the time so there is no "right to life" (even for humans). If this troubles you then basically you believe that the Jungle should be annihilated and replaced with Civilisation. Of course there are practical considerations to hunting -- like could it fulfil the current demand? But I don't think there needs to be an ethical justification for killing a wild animal, because outside the walls of Civilisation, morality vanishes.
But you can "justify" killing plants, that provide oxygen and food to many herbivores and omnivores and the death of millions of insects, which for omnivores provide a source of protein for them, as ok? You vegans are mentally handicapped in thinking your way of life isn't full of death
@@tylerhamblen2591 You realize far more plants are destroyed in order to create land for grazing and of course feeding the animals, right? It takes something like 15 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat.
