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Hunting And Fishing Are Dangerous Activities For Hunters, Children and Others Around Them, And of Course The Animals

DANGERS TO THE HUNTER
1. Hunters trip on their guns going over fences, shooting themselves or others. They sometimes discharge a rifle in twisting an ankle in a gopher hole or over roots. They can fall into unguarded ravines or capsize in a boat. Small planes with hunting party passengers in remote regions of the West crash.
2. There are many instances of bow and arrow hunters shooting others accidentally or impaling themselves on their own arrows.
3.. Guns can misfire. Hunters sometimes look down the barrel of a rifle wondering why it didn't fire, only to have the gun discharge.
4. The use of animal urines to attract animals to their deaths can boomerang.
5. Injured animals (stags, boar, bears etc) can turn around and attack. There are many videos on the internet of injured or enraged animals attacking hunters.
6. Hunters often have heart attacks in the woods as they try to pull or carry or lift very heavy dead animals.
7  Hunters are frequently injured in tree stands. Injuries include falling asleep and then falling out of the stands.
8  Hunters lost in the woods suffer from heat or freezing, hunger and thirst.
9. Ticks on deer and other animals or in the grass can burrow into hunters.  Lyme disease is caused by
   by bacteria on the ticks. Mosquitoes bite.
10 Foxhunters mounted on horses are often thrown to their deaths or injured.
11 Hunters are not immune from the impotence which is related to animal flesh consumption. Michael Klaper MD has lectured around the country on vegan diet as a cure for impotence.
12. Eating flesh from huntered animals shortens life expectancy by causing heart attacks, strokes, aneurisms, embolisms, many kinds of cancers, kidney disease, thousands of varieties of food poisoning.
13. Animals have a number of untreated diseases, some of which are transmitted to those who eat the venison etc. Mad Deer, Mad Elk, and a number of other spongiform encephalopathy diseases make eating the cadavers of animals hunters kill even more dangerous. Figures on cervine spongiform encephalopathy have been censored by state and federal agencies
intent on protecting hunting industries, tourism, restaurants, gun merchants, outdoor equipment sales etc.

14. Hunters can go deaf from the sound of guns firing.

15. Steve Rinella, promoter of animal eating,

consumed parasite-infected bear meat and got toxoplasmosis

16. In 2022, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and other states have covid infected deer who can both give covid to and receive covid from human beings.

DANGERS TO THE ANIMALS
17. Animals running in terror from hunters leave their bodies in fright and agony. Besides the painful death to trillions of animals are the countless animals who have died slowly from hunter injuries or the animals who are maimed but continue to live in pain with arrows protruding or infected gunshot wounds. Cleveland Amory reported seeing a deer with 12 arrows in her, still walking around.  Billions of bear cubs, doe, etc. have been orphaned by hunters. President Theodoroe Roosevelt is remembered more for the 1 orphaned cub he adopted than the hundreds of bears he killed.
18. Fish die of suffocation, smashing or being knifed. Their eyes, gills, throats are ripped out by multipronged hooks.
19. Dogs are injured by wild boars, in fox hunts. by ticks. Beagles are kept confined in small cages by many hunters.
20. Horses are injured by broken necks and legs in fox hunts.
21. Falcons are injured in a variety of ways by hunters who use them to catch birds and small animals.

FISHING

22.. Radiation cancers from Fukushima and illegal nuclear waste dumping around the world by other nuclear facilities, stomach cancer, lethal food poisonings including anaphylacic shock from shellfish, choking, mercury and other heavy metals destroying memory and hastening Alzheimer's, Mad Fish disease from prions expelled into the water etc are some hazards of fish eating.
23 Fishermen often catch fishhooks in face, fingers etc.
24 They can be spiked in femoral, hand or other arteries by catfishes, bitten by sharks.
25.They can be drowned in storms, knocked out of boats by the ramming of sharks, whales
26 Deep sea fishing is listed by many organizations as one of the 5 most dangerous occupations in the world. Drowning,
being caught in the nets are other hazards.

MURDER
27. Murders have been disguised as hunting accidents
28. Hunters can encounter farmers who don't want them shooting in the woods. Thomas Dillon killed five hunters in Central Ohio
29. A gathering of inebriated hunters can spell tragedy from shooting as alcohol opens the floodgates of anger.
30. The act of killing mammals and birds reduces the barrier between nonhuman and human beings. Criminal profilers and others have reported that those who have abused animals are more likely to become serial killers of human beings.

DANGERS TO CHILDREN
31. Countless children have died, finding their hunter parent's gun stash and using the weapons to play, for instance, cops and robbers.
32. Hunters have accidentally shot children in nearby homes.

DANGERS TO THE PUBLIC
33. Hunters often mistake hikers, campers in the woods for animals they are stalking. Countless residents of nearby communities have been killed when hunters

discharged weapons in woods close to the homes.

34. Owner of several hundred acres in NY, the man was tired of hunter scofflaws trespassing on his property, murdering animals he was trying to protect, illegally building tree stands. He was angered by having to dismantle the stands but he gave the lumber from them to a charity. Other landowners have not been as nonviolent

and have shot hunters who entered property without permission.

 
Millennials and those who've followed them have caused the percentage of hunters in population to drop below 5%. The cult of masculinity, that one must kill animals in order to prove manliness, has fewer adherents every year. E O Wilson, known as the antman for his study (and sometimes killing of ants and other species at Harvard and elsewhere)

was fishing at age 7. "The fin of a spiny pinfish scratched his right eye permanently impairing his distance vision and

depth perception."  Source: Washington Post obituary of

E.O. Wilson in late December 2021

A nonagenarian fisherman woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming he was caught by a huge fish who was preparing to eat him.

Stephen Brewerton wrote that in the movie called "Powder", a deputy sheriff is forced to feel the pain and fear of the deer he shot who lay dying. After this experience he sold off all of his guns.

 
Stag attacks hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD5zjUbWpXY

wild boar attacks hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A46Ndk-ru0U

hunter in Alaska attacked by bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbL9W8xqs0

5 bears in Alaska attack 65 year old hunter
http://www.inquisitr.com/1589491/bear-attack-five-bears-maul-65-year-old-hunter-in-alaska

Lion attacks safari hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIGqD80N6U

Doe injured by hunter's arrow attacks him
http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2015/01/03/doe-attacks-man-shot-arrow/21232447

Louisiana man injured by deer he harmed
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/31/wounded-deer-injures-hunter/5076957/

A New Hampshire man transporting a bear he'd murdered was injured in his vehicle rollover
http://www.wmur.com/news/hunter-transporting-bear-injured-in-atv-rollover/35157188

Milton California  a group of deer hunters have confrontation with man who doesn't want them hunting   the man is shot
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2015/07/19/one-injured-milton-hunting-confrontation/30387885/

Injured hunter chooses death over paralysis
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/06/injured-hunter-chooses-death-over-paralysis/3461259/

Steve Irwin crocodile hunter who speared countless animals dies
being speared by manta ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy25CutZTnY
Thomas Dillon killed 5 hunters
http://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dillonthomas.htm

tree stand injuries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jrXRYzmltI

hunters in Swiss and US emergency rooms
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365337/

Outdoor Life speaks of Mad Deer, Mad Elk
http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/hunting/2007/09/mad-deer-disease-can-venison-kill-you

http://pcrm.org

http://ssqq.com/archive/images/arrowhead01.jpg

pirate4x4.com

Serial killers who hurt animals

https://www.ranker.com/list/serial-killers-who-hurt-animals/ranker-crime
http://allpoetry.com/column/12161321-Serial_Killers_Who_Had_Animal_Abusing_Childhoods-by-saiom