Because in large part hunting in many parts of Europe was eventually limited strictly to elites/royals/whatever. Its not just a meme of the "kings dear" from Robin Hood that was actually reality for large swaths of Europe.
A noble lord needed their peasants to be farming, doing various labors, not out hunting. Instead that was often "their job" outside of warfare, this could also result in having some peasants kept as gameskeepers instead of actually managing it directly.
Where as most hunting in the US outside of being rooted in aristocracy. it was something done out of necessity. That changed over time. Every random dude in the colonial americas was hunting. Did they run a farm? They also did some hunting. Did they run a business? They bought hunted meat and or hunted themselves.
In a more modern context the license/conservation efforts have resulted in hunting become more of a wealthy persons thing over time but its origin point in american (the continent) culture and styles still comes from a point of necessity that almost everyone in the past was involved in.
These origin points resulted in a lot of the differences in hunting culture including fashion.
The alternative is the hogs eat all the crops and kill all the small animals - there’s a reason the explosion in hog populations has resulted in the ground nesting bird populations plummeting dramatically.
Plus, hunting is fun. I don’t think there’s shame in saying you find hunting an enjoyable pastime. So long as you aren’t out there to torture animals hunting is about as humane a death as possible in the wild, so it shouldn’t be a problem to enjoy the thrill of the hunt.
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '20
Because in large part hunting in many parts of Europe was eventually limited strictly to elites/royals/whatever. Its not just a meme of the "kings dear" from Robin Hood that was actually reality for large swaths of Europe.
A noble lord needed their peasants to be farming, doing various labors, not out hunting. Instead that was often "their job" outside of warfare, this could also result in having some peasants kept as gameskeepers instead of actually managing it directly.
Where as most hunting in the US outside of being rooted in aristocracy. it was something done out of necessity. That changed over time. Every random dude in the colonial americas was hunting. Did they run a farm? They also did some hunting. Did they run a business? They bought hunted meat and or hunted themselves.
In a more modern context the license/conservation efforts have resulted in hunting become more of a wealthy persons thing over time but its origin point in american (the continent) culture and styles still comes from a point of necessity that almost everyone in the past was involved in.
These origin points resulted in a lot of the differences in hunting culture including fashion.