Ask500

As people may have guessed I went with the orange. Deer are most certainly not endangered in Sweden and I see no justifiable objection to hunting them.

Well eating dear doesn't increase CO2. They are already living and we didn't bread/raise them for food. If you do believe that they causes global warming (like cows and cow farts) then hunting them is helping to prevent global warming and reduce CO2.

Deer in a great many parts of the US are over populated due to a lack of natural predators. A great many are killed in collisions with cars (>1.6 million per year) and from lack of food there are so many. Where I live the population is so out of control that even hunting isn't helping. The local government has started hiring/paying hunters to hunt all day as a job. Deer is definitely a case where (for now) hunting isn't a problem.

Incidentally since they are so many deer and you are allowed to hunt more than most people would need/want to eat for themselves there is a charity group here that will take any deer any hunter has. The group then takes all the deer to professional FDA approved meet cutters and distribute the meet to food banks and other non-profits that feed the hungry.

Declined because venison tastes yucky? Here, because we have removed all the top predators and them moved into the rural areas, the deer population is higher than it was when the first Europeans settled. As a result, we have epidemic Lyme disease. You literally can't go for a walk in the woods without slathering on DEET--and even then, like the local head ranger, you will pick up 30 or so ticks. He's had Lyme disease THREE TIMES this year alone.

Reduce the deer population by 50% and see that problem clear up.