People always expect me to be against "redneck" hunting and it bemuses me.
First of all, please don't call people rednecks. It has awful classist connotations and makes it easier to brush rural areas off, when the reality is that many of the people in those areas are poor and struggling and tend to be the farthest left because of how much they've been fucked over by governments and corporations. Don't ignore those people. Their opinions, experiences, and knowledge are important.
And that's not even getting into things like how lack of education opportunities shape those communities and how they aren't nearly as white or straight or able-bodied as people think they are.
Second of all, all forms of hunting can be huge boons when done sustainably.
sustenance hunting can provide families and communities with desperately needed food, clothing, and income
controlled hunting and fishing helps with invasive species and animal overpopulation, especially in the case of animals like deer, wild hogs, and Asian carp
hunting is just a general part of land management and always has been
even trophy hunting, particularly in regards to big game like lions and rhinos, is often guided by conservation groups who make old animals that can't breed available to be hunted and use the money from those hunts to put towards helping the general conservation efforts; the meat, furs, horns etc usually can't be taken from the area and often go to local communities
Hunting is not a black-and-white "indigenous people good white people bad" situation. As long as it's done sustainably and respectfully, hunting is a great resource and something that can hugely benefit both communities and ecosystems.
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