Why Sport Hunting is Cruel and Unnecessary

            I recently read an article by Grant Holloway entitled, "Why Sport Hunting is Cruel and Unnecessary." As a member of PETA, he states his opinion: bow hunting is "cruel and unnecessary." His premises are as follows; A) that the majority of hunters don't hunt as a food source, B) that hunting is mainly done to reduce mainland population; but that in a whole this is unsuccessful because ones the numbers are lowered we get an increase of vegetation and food sources. So that the surviving deer reproduce at a more rapid rate and thus the animal population actually increases not decreases. C) Many animals suffer an extended and painful death and that many bow hunters trail there deer for hours before finding them if they ever do. D) That many animals have to be shot more than once before they actually die, E) he says that hunting disrupts migration and hibernation patterns. F) He says that hunting disrupts families like wolves who breed for life. G) Hunting causes unnecessary stress to the animals that causes them to act unusually and makes them more susceptible to other deaths. Therefore His conclusion is that bow hunting is always cruel and is a form of torture.
             In evaluating this I discovered it's not always true or false some of his premises are true but others are not. A) The premise that the majority of hunters don't hunt for a food source is false the vast majority of animals that are shot and killed during bow hunting are harvested and if the hunter themselves don't eat the meat they usually give them to someone else who will. Otherwise you would find large numbers of dead deer just lying around rotting. B) Hunting is mainly don't to reduce mainland populations and with the reduction of the population there is an increase of population which results in more animals birthing twins. However in the case of deer this is why they have antlerless doe season so the number of breeding animals is reduced and you won't have a large outbreak in offspring.