Why don't people just poison the animal that they hunt for food?

Question

Would it be humane to poison the animals so we can eat poisoned animals instead of blood slaughtering them?

Answer 1

a friend of my husbands poisoned me then raped me, not good.

Answer 2

Explain, in detail, exactly what difference you think it would make.

Answer 3

there are a few reasons. for one, poison is a painful, slow way to die. it doesn't work like in a cartoon where you instantly drop dead, you start nauseous and drooling, then you start throwing up and/or having diarrhea, then you start getting delirious, and then you die. compared to a well placed shot to the heart or the brain, shooting is much more humane.

then there's also the fact that poison tends not to discriminate among your target and non-target animal. if you're hunting deer, you have permission to kill deer, but not, say, a fox. so you could get in trouble for killing something you don't have permission too. that's why traps tend to just hold an animal in place rather than breaking their leg and trappers have to check their traps at least once a day, so they can release something that triggered the trap by mistake, like a dog.

and finally, poisoning the animal will likely poison the meat, making it a waste because the animal can not be used completely. the only thing you could safely take from a poisoned animal would be the pelt and the bones. but when people hunt, they should try to use as much of the animal as they can.

Answer 4

Animals are killed quite quickly in an abattoir. I do not know why you think poison would be better. For it to be better it would have to kill the animal very quickly and without suffering. Otherwise, you are proposing something worse. Poisons are often dangerous to more than one species. Therefore, administering the poison could place humans at considerable harm. Indeed, it make take more poison to kill a cow than a human, so the doses required could pose considerable danger, too. Your idea may also pose a problem in that by eating the poisoned animal’s flesh humans may be poisoned by it. So you are creating a tall order: a fast-acting poison that causes no suffering, is not dangerous for humans to administer and does not make the animal inedible.

Answer 5

Dying of poisoning is excruciatingly painful. It also contaminates the meat.

Answer 6

The reason is quite obvious, if the hunter intends on eating the animal they kill, then it wouldn't be wise of them to use poison because the animals body would become tainted with the poison they used which can also kill whatever consumes that animal, be it the hunter or any scavengers that find it first, since animals that are poisoned usually don't start to feel the effects until long after it has consumed the poison it's not likely that you would have a good chance of actually finding it. It's also inhumane since poisons can take awhile to kill as it destroys the animal from the inside in a slow and agonizing way.



Poisons can linger in a dead animal for a long time and usually what kills one thing will often times kill another just as easily. So it is never a good idea to kill anything with poison, even if you are just killing rodents in your home, it is a danger to kids, pets, and wildlife. If you are going hunting then actually hunt your game by shooting or trapping it, don't poison it. If you have a pest problem use kill traps and/or live traps.

Answer 7

Some hunters do use poison from poison arrow frogs. They use the poison from the frogs to tip their arrows and spears and the poison paralyzes their prey.

Answer 8

You'd have to make sure it was a poison that wasn't dangerous to Humans. If it is then it's a non-starter.



In addition to that, in what manner does it cause the animal to die? Is it quick? Is it painless? Nobody wants an animal to die in agony.

What happens to the poison after it has done it's work in the animal? Contamination would be a major concern. If the intention is to eat the kill, will it be broken down before leaving our digestive system? Flushing it back out into the environment could still leave it potent enough to cause more unwanted animal deaths.



There's also a question as to what the poison does to the flesh of the animal if it is for consumption. Some forms of animal death result in very poor quality meat.



In terms of hunting, poison doesn't seem to me to be a particularly "sporting" method of take-down. The practice of hunting is to hone skills and refine senses. It's supposed to offer a challenge to the hunter.

Any fool with a bag of rat poison could take down a herd of animals, there's no skill involved in that.



Within the meat industry poison is sometimes used in livestock slaughter. CO2, Ar and N2 gas are used in some circumstances to induce unconsciousness and asphyxiation. I think it's usually used on pigs which lose consciousness only a few seconds after breathing in high concentrations of these gases. There is no distress caused to the animal when gas is used so it is widely seen as a highly humane method of dispatch. They don't know there is anything wrong, or that they are in any danger, they just go to sleep.

Answer 9

Most effective poisons linger in the tissues and so on. So, we'd have to have a poison that does not affect humans.



Poisons can be extremely painful, so I'm not sure that it would be a humane way of killing the animals

Answer 10

Dying of poisoning is not a good way to die