barnbwt
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"I love the smell of bacon in the morning; smells like...breakfast."
So, asphyxiation is better than hemorrhage? Once again, I think this mindset stems from confusing the act of hunting (or possibly warfare against *humans*) with pest control of mindless beasts; it's not about sportsmanship or fairness or feelings, it's about solving a problem efficiently. Once the problem is suitably under control, less drastic measures can be employed that do take luxuries like the animal's experience or outward appearance upon death into consideration.i would not have a problem with poisoning wild hogs if the poison would not cause prolonged suffering. Warfarin does cause prolonged suffering and i'm adamantly opposed to the stuff.
If Nitrite actually does ultimately prove to work better, then more power to them; who wouldn't rather have purple hogs instead of bloody hogs littering their property? The fact it kills faster may or may not be a good thing from where I see it; if one sounder can learn from the folly of another, 2 hours may not be enough time to zap all the hogs in an area before they learn to avoid the baits. From what I understand the stuff is not yet tested, unlike the extensive track record of warfarin as a mammalian pesticide.
So why would the suggestion be to deploy an untested substance --that we don't really know the follow-on effects for-- over one that has been well understood going on decades in similar/identical usage? Because the animal supposedly experiences less 'suffering' by having its hemoglobin shut down as opposed to a brain hemorrhage? The animal will exhibit protracted stress & mental deterioration in either case before its brain function is sufficiently compromised, so I'm not really seeing the difference in how the animal 'feels' before its end --assuming animals even have feelings in the way we perceive them, or that we should give them moral weight because they somewhat resemble our own at times.
This is becoming less a scientific/pragmatic discussion and more of a moralistic one; no different than a discussion with people who see recreational hunting or responsible wildlife management as needless evils of man upon poor helpless animals.
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