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Lds Position Hunting - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 17th Jan, 2011 - 8:42pm
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LDS Position On Hunting
Hey folks, I would like to know what's the LDS position on animal hunting? Maybe someone has some quotes, etc that can provide some information? I am here in Utah and the Church owns two hunting preserves: Deseret Land and Livestock, and Westlake Hunting Preserve in Utah County.
Here is an article about full time LDS missionaries serving in a private hunting preserve owned by the Church. So basically they are raising all these animals, taking care of them for a season for the purpose of these poor creatures being victims of hunting you know what am I saying?
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They do archery hunting of animals in these places such as elk, can you all imagine what a painful death is this? They also charge over US$10,000 for a single weekend for someone to hunt (and a very, very long waiting list, YEARS!).
Is it that we are sacrificing principle for profit?
I would appreciate some thoughts.
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In these farms they used to offered "Canned" hunting, which means they raised animals and place them in a land with a fence (no escape) and then get hunters to come and shoot them to death. After a lot of complaints to the Church, they stopped as well as having missionaries working in them however even though they lease some of these farms now but they have some control over them (making their own regulations) such as no hunting on Sundays, etc, it makes you wonder why in the world would the Church support recreational hunting?
Post Date: 17th Jan, 2011 - 8:32pm / Post ID: #
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Personally, if the hunted animal is used as food by the hunter, I don't see what the problem is. I do believe that killing animal for sport only is morally wrong, but if one is combining sport with providing for one's family, it seems actually more ethical than buying meat at your local Safeway. People seldom have a problem eating animals that someone else killed, and I think it's hypocritical if those same people are not willing to kill an animal themselves in order to put food on the table. For many people I know that pay for hunting leases, a big part of it is putting honesty and dignity back into the equation, something that is sorely missing for those who just buy 20lb of 90% lean ground beef at their local grocer without thinking twice about where it came from.
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Daburto:
QUOTE Personally, if the hunted animal is used as food by the hunter, I don't see what the problem is
You don't see a problem with killing an animal if the person doesn't have a need for survival?
QUOTE For many people I know that pay for hunting leases, a big part of it is putting honesty and dignity back into the equation, something that is sorely missing for those who just buy 20lb of 90% lean ground beef at their local grocer without thinking twice about where it came from.
Oh, blood money.
I wonder how many of you folks are aware of what past leaders have said about hunting. I just saw these quotes today:
QUOTE Killing for sport is wrong...One day, to while away the slowly passing hours, I took my gun with the intention of indulging in a little amusement in hunting turkeys... From boyhood I had been particularly, and I may say strangely, attached to a gun. Hunting in the forests of Ohio was a pastime that to me possessed the most fascinating attractions. It never occurred to my mind that it was wrong-that indulging in "what was sport to me was death to them;" that in shooting turkeys, squirrels, etc., I was taking life that I could not give; therefore I indulged in the murderous sport without the least compunction of conscience. (Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p.188-189)
QUOTE I never could see why a man should be imbued with a blood-thirsty desire to kill and destroy animal life. I have known men--and they still exist among us--who enjoy what is, to them, the "sport" of hunting...I do not believe any man should kill animals or birds unless he needs them for food... I think it is wicked for men to thirst in their souls to kill almost everything which possesses animal life. It is wrong...(Answers to Gospel Questions, Vol.4, p.48)
QUOTE We should by every means in our power impress upon the rising generation the value of life and how dreadful a sin it is to take life. The lives of animals even should be held far more sacred than they are. Young people should be taught to be very merciful to the brute creation and not to take life wantonly or for sport. The practice of hunting and killing game merely for sport should be frowned upon and not encouraged among us. God has created the fowls and the beasts for man's convenience and comfort and for his consumption at proper times and under proper circumstances; but he does not justify men in wantonly killing those creatures which He has made and with which He has supplied the earth. (George Q. Cannon, Gospel Truth, Vol. 1, p.30)
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