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It has nothing to do with animal activism. I hungrily kill and eat every raccoon and opossum that gets in my reach, because they are NOT endangered or rare, NOT top level predators important to their local ecosystems, and are a totally sustainable harvest. In California I hunted the overpopulated deer mercilessly and in Florida I helped trap (and butcher and eat) many, many feral hogs out of wildlife preserve areas. Killing some kinds of animals is good for the bigger picture, and it means your kids and grandkids will continue to be able to enjoy nature and wildlife and hunting.
NOT killing some kinds of animals is also good for the bigger picture, and it means exactly the same thing.
If you do things that are biologically and ecologically stupid, like kill top level predators or keystone species out of an ecosystem, or fail to kill overpopulated species, you make a mess in Mother Nature. Sometimes the consequences are long term and sometimes they will come back and hit you in the butt in the short term. Either way, it's smart to think harder and look at the bigger picture before deciding what animals to hunt or trap or harvest and what animals are best to relocate or leave alone.
In terms of venomous snakes specifically, if you know anyone who has breast cancer, has had a bypass operation, type 2 diabetes or any of the degenerative neurological disorders, you have venom to thank for research and medicines that extend their lives. When you kill a venomous snake, you aren't just removing a top level predator of rodents from your local ecosystem - and that's bad enough, considering the diseases rodents carry - you may well be killing your grandmother's best hope for more quality years with her family. Biological prospecting in snake venom is an incredibly rich and fruitful field in human medicine, and new things are being discovered all the time in different animals. Turning that animal over to venom research can save human lives.
Being educated enough to know and care about these things does not make you an animal rights activist.
To be perfectly honest I have all these birds to protect but before those I have this
And I just killed 4 cotton mouths this rain season in my yard. One was in my garden almost to the chicken coop where the chicks are. I was picking squash with my little girl. I dont personally care about what venom snakes can or cant do. All i know is if it comes on my yard then someone lost there shot at research If it endangers my family in any way shape or form It has no place here. at least I feed my kills back to my dogs after cooking them so its somewhat recycled. I didn't say anyone was or wasnt an activist. I said "some of us are not animal activists and some are." shoe fits wear it. I am not here to agrue or dispute anyones beliefs. But the world does not share the same beliefs we all have different opinions about certian things in life.
