Hunting Controversy Quotes

Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

I don't mind a little blood on the ice when it's a hockey rink, but I hate seeing blood on the ice when it's from baby seals.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down ... but I bite my lips and keep quiet.

The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven't. They know the public doesn't agree with them. They know that this is about animal cruelty, pure and simple.