Good lord, people sure are cruel and quick to judge.

I was raised in a very rural area where hunting is so prevalent that we would get the first day of hunting season off of school because people were so inclined to skip that day anyway. The deer population here is so massive that they'd starve if hunters didn't keep the population down.

Now that said, I really hate sport hunting. I find it abhorrent that someone would want to mount an animal's head on their wall, proud that they killed an innocent animal that was defenseless against the power of a gun. I was the weirdo they called the "Bug Girl" as a little kid because I would protect ants from kids trying to step on them.

But for god's sake, I can still recognize the difference between a human life and an animal's. Do I condone his career choice? No. But I also don't know his circumstances, and I also understand through experience with people that hunt that they don't see their actions as inherently malicious, whether I agree with that assessment or not.

Hunting, evening mounting and posing with one's kill, doesn't make him a horrible person who deserved to die and I find the people celebrating a man's death more disgusting than someone who hunts for a living.

Well, there's not much I can say if you don't trust science. I kind of understand your point of view though, because regarding food, the results do indeed feel like they're constantly changing. Often, it sounds like correct results are misinterpreted, but I don't really know. Anyway, science is all we've got.

Also, your post reminds me I forgot my original point in my last post. Harmful and lethal are two different things. For all I know, red meat could be completely harmless to most people, but it could cause even lethal diseases in some people, lowering life expectancy and being harmful and lethal to some. As far as I can see, it's perfectly plausible that red meat is harmful, at least in excess. Observing the effects of some things can be very difficult and slow though, so it might seem like they don't have any effect. Food is often one such thing.

EDIT: Offtopic, but it's noticeably easier to read your text if you put a space before the word after a period. That's also how English is supposed to be written, and that's also how most people write it. Just a friendly tip!

The elephant had a family too.

If he needed money for college cool but that was in 1989, could have gotten a degree that didn't require killing for 28 years.

Sure we eat meat but we bread it to eat it. We don't go around killing endangered or on the verge of extinction animals for fun. 

I'm not saying it's true for this particular instance in any shape or form--I have no clue about the ecosystem there--but anyone saying all hunting should be banned simply doesn't know what they're talking about.

As someone who lives in a rural area of the US, I can say that controlled hunting is absolutely vital. We've decimated a lot of natural predators, so it's now our responsibility to take their place. Otherwise, populations would surge, animals would starve, and you've have more moving out into high-traffic areas and causing accidents as they look for food. If they didn't let hunters hunt then the government would have to do it and it would just be a waste.

Of course, it's also true that I loathe some hunters I've met. There are those that hunt illegally and dump entrails or even entire headless carcasses in ditches. At least they come down seriously hard on those they catch.

He was a cold man, he left many orphans, destroyed many families and felt great satisfaction in his job, he got what he deserved 

The Elephant had nothing to do with him having a big family and needing the money, it was his decision having 5 kids, not the Elephant's... On the other hand, the elephant had no choice, it had to pay with its life the man's decision of having a big family... Not fair at all!

  Pretty much this, one day you're the hunter..the day next you might be the prey, it's the circle of life.

I may abhor the hunting of creatures like these (honestly, hunting elephants more than just about any animal I can think of given their brilliance and easily observed human-like feelings and relationships), but I'm certainly not going to dance on the grave of this man who, from all accounts, was a decent man who lived a full life with all the requisite experiences and relationships that come with it.

I really wish the ghoulish anti-hunters on this forum and elsewhere would actually get to know some "hunters", as I've known plenty including friends and even a grandfather, and they can be wonderful, well rounded people. Granted, none hunted big, rare game (in fact hunters are legitimately necessary on the east coast to combat the boar infestation), but it's a similar mindset and concept that leads to such actions.

They're brought up in the hunting culture, and it becomes a part of them much as it has for hundreds of thousands of years predating our own species' existence. It does not restrict them, however, from leading full and productive lives elsewhere. They are not some monstrous boogie-men, and celebrating their deaths only emboldens pro-hunters and makes people on the fence feel the anti-hunters are all psychopathic douchebags.

That sort of approach can only win over so many people, as is evident in the running joke that PETA has become and the brick wall the vegetarian movement hit years ago despite the adherents being equally distributed across the political spectrum; these movements, with their open disdain for outsiders, are attempting to attract flies with vinegar, and it is certainly counterproductive.

Oh, my whole point in about the science always changing about stuff like this, is just a point to show that, outside of taking things to extreme or close to it, having a healthy diet depends alot on your own body. Due to the metabolism of one person, he or she may react better to meat than other, thus being more helthy for that person to eat more meat. And of course the oposite would be also true. What I simply dont agree with is the statement that meat is unhealthy, even if you dont eat much of it. It varies from person to person sure, but the meat is as healthy as it gets(you can get most nutrients you need out of it, and also has unique nutrients that you can only get from it).

The whole point is moderation. Only eating meat can be potentially bad, but not eating any of it is also potentially bad(vegans and vegetariants needs to take supplements to conpensate, if they are taking their diet seriously).I think it should go without saying, anything in excess can be harmful, even water is.

Exactly.I condonne this kind of activity.Endangered or protected animals is completely off limits. And this hunter wasnt doing anything like this. Hence people should be more respectful here in my opinion.