dryad, quote: "Hunting is unnecessary killing." Wrong. In many instances, hunting is the only effective means of keeping populations in balance with their habitat. Prey species evolved in a system which dictated they have lots of offspring to replace those members of the species which were eaten by preators (including man, for the last 4.5 million years). If you remove man from the list of predators in an ecosystem, those species can overpopulate to their own detriment. Hunting IS necessary. If it were not for hunters taking millions of deer every year in North America, keeping the populations under control, it would be impossible to feed people. Farmers would not be able to grow a crop, cars would hit deer every 100 yards, and people would die on the highways in unbelievable numbers.