As the US descends into fascist hellscape this is what members of the Democrats are concerned about? I would trust our commercial kangaroo harvesters to humanely shoot kangaroos far more than the cowboys out there hunting deer and other game in the US.
The cowboys are now hunting children in classrooms and courtrooms.
Ah, the most dangerous game of all.
distractions gaffes, much like how the gop does it. distract from the IDF/israel support causing outrange, plus zohran,,,etc.
Fuck US lawmakers. Like they've got a leg to stand on when talking about things being "needlessly cruel".
US lawmakers think stripping people of their humanity is acceptable. Fuck them and their useless opinions.
There are a lot of differences between how the US and how Australia do hunting. For one, there is no commercial deer/elk harvest in the US. Commercially sold venison can only be from farmed deer/elk. I think deer leather can be sold, but there are a lot of hoops to go through.
Also, in the US, most hunting regulations exist not for ethical or conservation purposes but to prevent people from being able to subsistence hunt. They wanted hunting to be a rich man's game like in the UK. The existence of hunting seasons is a good example. Another is regulations on method of take; for example, you often must use outdated equipment like bows and muzzleloaders, and the use of modern, effective rifles is severely curtailed. Compare that to Australia where you can use night vision/thermal scopes and rifles with supressors, and i believe there is no "hunting season".
The reality is that both countries have an overpopulation of large herbivores in areas, and the answer anti-hunting people give is the reintroduction of large carnivores. While we should do that in more rural areas, it's not feasible in urban/suburban areas where deer proliferate.
Many municipalities actually have to pay to have deer culled, and they do that rather than making it easier for people to hunt.
Tl;dr, i think there are some things I like better about how Australia handles hunting, but theres also things about the US's method i like.
Where do they limit hunting to only bow or black powder?
I know states in the Midwest have special seasons/times for bow/black powder hunting but the regular deer season isn't limited that way.
Here's an example: Delaware only allows shotgun, pistol/pistol caliber long guns, and muzzleloader, no true rifle.
https://www.eregulations.com/delaware/hunting/deer-seasons
Connecticut only allows rifle on private land.
https://portal.ct.gov/deep/hunting/2025-connecticut-hunting-and-trapping-guide/deer-hunting#PVSHOT
Iowa has no rifle allowed.
https://www.iowadnr.gov/things-do/hunting-trapping/iowa-hunting-seasons
Lots of states have restrictions against modern (and by modern, i mean bottlenecked) rifle rounds, and if you want to use a rifle, you have to either find a 150 year old cowboy gun, or buy a really expensive new gun using one of several specialized cartridges that cost like $2 a round.
And then when it comes down to it, if you live in a state where it is legal to hunt with a regular rifle, you end up finding that half the time any public land that you can hunt on is restricted to archery only, so unless you happen to be a large landowner, you can't hunt with a rifle.
I wonder if those restrictions go back to the Great Depression? That's the case for the shotgun only areas in southern Minnesota.
I'm not sure. I know in a lot of those places, the rationale is that the terrain is too flat, so rifle bullets can travel too far.
The problem is that I don't know if that actually corresponds to increased risk of death. It sounds plausible, but idk if there are real stats to back it up.
A quick search for some plausible data turned up California's official stats, and going back a few years, I never saw more than 5 deaths in a year. Extrapolating the rate to the whole US, that's like 50 per year. Other sources just say "less than 100 per year for the whole US".
Without a specific study, it's just as plausible to attribute the fatalities to sheer proximity of the shooter to the victim rather than bullets traveling far. Bigger targets are easier to hit. Just looking at the California data, which includes injuries, this seems to bear out, and most injuries and fatalities are due to close range shotgun bird hunting (i.e. the Dick Cheney).
And really, if you wanted to completely eliminate the risk of rifle bullets traveling further than intended, you could mandate the use of any elevated shooting position (which some places do for archery).
My understanding is there was maybe some truth to the travel distance once upon a time but that with sabot rounds for shotguns now the ballistics are almost the same between rifle and shotgun.
funny article highlighting foreigners lack of understanding with a good sprinkle of anti intellectualism
oh yeah nah course we care about *checks notes* US lawmakers and their thoughts. utmost respect for em.
There is an interesting, complex conversation going on between the many different Australian advocacy groups here in the article, it's clearly got a few interesting angles to it. But if one thing is clear, the US lawmakers are not only ignorant of the discussion but incidentally hypocritical (see the Game Industry Council comment on US deer practices). They seem to mean well, in a surprising way, but that's no excuse for professional lawmakers to be so blatantly ignorant. Although, to be honest, I'd be surprised if any conservationist legislation went through their congress under this regime, so I doubt it will pass.
I'm not sure what's more amusing out of the American hypocrisy or all these football boot manufacturers pretending they are ethical for returning to cow leather.
Governments have backed controls and culls of the kangaroo’s natural predator – the dingo
“The natural alternatives are being killed by a dingo or dying by starvation,” he says.
Farmers livestock might be at risk but can we not reintroduce more dingos to manage the population?
Fuck that, I love kangaroo and it's one of the few meats my cat will eat. They are a pest basically if I understand correctly.
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