Hunters apologise after killing rare albino moose in Canada

I had to stop reading the comments, my opinions of Britons were starting to tank.

Cultural difference, that's all.
It's a UK paper.

I didn't know being an ignorant wanker was part of British culture.

I didn't know being an ignorant wanker was part of British culture.
I'm pretty sure there is a lot you don't know about British culture That being one part of it

I dunno maybe I'm an ignorant wanker too ( bet many will nod their head in acknowledgement when the read that ! ) but I also don't get the sport of hunting too.

Me neither.
We're outcast, DD...

I personally love moose hunting season, even though I don't hunt. I know enough people who do to get a few moose steaks (yum yum), that and the hunt reduces the chance that myself or some other poor sod will wrap their car around one of the dumb bastards.

They never broke one law while hunting. I also wouldn't take anything our "Land Guardians" had to say to heart because it always involves culture and cash.

Some times it's not a sport. In many places in Canada's north, there is no land to grow crops. The only food are the things walking or swimming or flying around. Most don't like it when whales are hunted, but one whale caught by hunters in a row boat can feed an entire community all winter. And it might be the only thing to eat.

In places like Newfoundland, Moose were introduced as food for hunting in the same manner. But they have no natural predators on the island, so the populations multiplied quickly. And a moose is not a small creature. You can hit one with a car, and everyone in the car will be injured or dead, and the moose will walk away. Hunting there is about safety as much as food.

Look at this.



Where the roof and windshield are caved in? That's just from a moose .

I've seen plenty worse damage from white tail collisions, which are a hell of a lot smaller than a moose. The premise that this animal is somehow spiritual or supernatural is ridiculous. Should we all stop eating beef because almost a billion Hindus view cattle as sacred, or stop eating pork because some see it as profane? This animal had a common genetic mutation and that's it.

All that being said, I don't believe in hunting just for a trophy. You kill for food or to get rid of a nuisance/danger. As far as I'm concerned, and many others, hunting for your food is more ethical and healthier, than the meat you get at supermarkets.

No offense intended, but there's not much in the way of hunting around your neighborhood so it's not like you could relate. In North America hunting is both practical for providing food for one's family and for controlling the populations of various animals. By managing those populations over the past 100 years or so we've used sport hunting as a tool to reduce the cycles of famine among wild animals and we've also used managed sport hunting (counter-intuitively to you, most likely) to protect many endangered species from extinction.

In this case if a genuinely albino critter was legally hunted for sport and in terms of genetics the hunters helped to improve the genetic stock given that albinism is not a positive trait in any population. However, if the moose was white and not an albino then it's probably just a recessive trait that will show up again in future generations of moose. Meaning that it's nothing to worry about.

As to the feelings of the local tribes about white animals it'd be nice if they joined the 21st Century with the rest of us and stopped worshipping animals as if it were still the frickin' Stone Age.

Holy crap! I had no idea that something so small could cause so much damage!

Alcohol is the leading cause of pregnancy!