I have no problem with the harvesting, the methods they're using or the numbers they're taking.
You should also realize, quite a bit of the "fights" they show with the gator in the water is done with a dead gator. I noticed once a limp floppy leg during some thrashing about, and then started really WATCHING for it. Many of the underwater fighting is a tethered dead gator being slung around.
Even if all the fights were real with live gators, they're reeling them in as quickly as possible to shoot them. It's not about sporting or fair, it's just business. I don't feel like deer hunters should get gored to death, nor hog hunters get eaten up by a feral hog. I don't want a gator hunter to get bitten or killed by a gator just because he's doing a job his family has been doing for generations.
I do reserve the right to wish certain folks on tv would get mauled at least a little bit, but it's due to their personality and being complete jerks.... not just because they happen to harvest gators.
And gators taste good. Technically shouldn't everyone really support the gator hunting vs farming? I mean, everyone seems to scream about 'free range' being better... what's freer range than wild, right? LOL. That argument never works on most folks touting organice-freerange-whatever.
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