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You'd better hope sportsman never get tired of policing our own ranks, and ethics is a big part of it. In order for our sport to survive the 21st century we will need to make ever effort possible to see to it that we and our brothers hunt and fish legally, and show respect for the animals that we pursue. The day we give up and keep our mouths shut when we see something illegal or unethical will be the day the 80% of the population turns against us in force.
One other aspect of game farms that's not been hit on here, is the fact that they degrade the wild trophy animals taken by ethical means. How many game farm heads get dragged out of the shed 5, 10, or 15 years down the road and entered in the books. This steroid fed animal been honored with animals that deserve it, diminishes the effort to harvest great animals. Game farms place counterfeit trophies in with deserving greatness.
You are talking about two completely different things. Ethics and laws are not the same. Ethics, or morals, are personal opinions. If these ethics can be backed up with fact then they should be made into law. I agree that we need to police ourselves, and that anyone stepping outside of the law should be handled accordingly, but I do not agree, and do not understand, with forcing one's opinion on others.
All of the examples I stated, and you quoted, were things that I have actually heard other sportsmen say were "unethical." All of them, if done legally, are accepted and used by countless hunters.
Now let me play devil's advocate with you. You talk about record books. Maybe I feel that keeping these books is unethical and disrespecful to the animals (I don't feel that way). Maybe I feel that the hunt is not about the kill, and certainly not about how big the antlers are (I don't, and I probably wouldn't measure them if I thought they were the biggest in the world). Does that mean that I should fight to get the keeping of these records banned?
All I am saying is that, as long as a hunting activity is legal, it can be considered ethical by those participating in it. If, factually, that activity is harmful to the animals, or their environment, then it needs to be dealt with accordingly. However, we should not attack those participating legally in the activity, just present the facts. Also, we need to stop with this "harmful to the sport" and "fuel for the anti's" attitiude. The only thing we do that is harmful to our heritage and gives fuel to the anti hunters is spout off about what we think is "unethical" in public forums that they can use to fight us.