--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shoot, eat. > > Here in the DC suburbs it is the same thing. Having killed off all > the apex predators for deer it is up to man or they just starve to > death in large numbers which is much more cruel. I don't hunt but I > get a lot of venison from a hunter friend and it is fantastic meat. It > is such a shame that any families in America go without good meat with > this overpopulation of deer causing car accidents, deer tics with > their lyme disease, and their own suffering in the Winter die-off in > the unnatural world we have created for them. I have heard of a > cougar comeback but that will have its downsides for sure!
Until I was about 25 I pretty much lived in a big city (except for MIU which had its own kind of sheltering life). I then took a job selling on the road which took me to Vermont, Maine, and the Canadian Maritime provinces...pretty much all rural areas. The job required me to visit consumers in their homes and for the first time in my life I was exposed to hunters. Up until then I had the typical stereotype of hunters from my sheltered upbringing in a city: I thought they all did it for sport and they killed the animal, threw away the carcass and hung the head up as a trophy. I soon learned that virtually every hunter I met killed the animals almost exclusively for the meat (usually venison but sometimes elk) and virtually everyone of the hunters I met had one of those horizontal freezers to store the meat in. So a successful hunting trip meant that they'd fill up that freezer and that would be their meat for the year. And there are virtually millions of people in both the U.S. and Canada that depend on their hunting to give them their meat for the year. Most city people simply are not aware of this cultural phenomenon of our rural areas. And on a side topic: I have MUCH more respect for hunters who kill the meat that they eat than those of us who buy our red meat in a supermarket where the animal was raised on one of those godforsaken factory farms where the animal was basically tortured his whole life and brought up on all sorts of drugs and hormones to fatten him up. At least with hunted meat the animal had a free life until the day he died and he isn't full of chemicals (well, maybe e.coli as we're now learning...but, hey, maybe we can blame that on global warming!) > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > ****************** > > > > > > > > There are regular deer culls almost everywhere, including Iowa > > City: > > > > > > > > http://www.gsenet.org/library/11gsn/2000/gs01108a.php > > > > DEER SHARPSHOOTERS' WORK EARNS PRAISE > > > > > > > > Date: > > > > From: "Dennis W. Schvejda" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > By Robert Stern, Staff Writer, Times, 11/07/00 > > > > > > > > When Iowa City first contemplated bringing the White Buffalo > > > > sharpshooters to town to thin its increasingly bothersome deer > > > > population last year, Pat Farrant cringed. > > > > > > > > Now Farrant, a self-described animal welfare activist and > > > > chairwoman of Iowa City's deer-management advisory citizen > > > > committee, reluctantly accepts White Buffalo's killing > > > > techniques - which Princeton Township officials hope to > > > > employ this winter - as a necessary evil. > > > > > > I grew up in Princeton Township, and the folks who bought our home > > put > > > up a 10' high deer fence around the house and yards because the > > deer > > > had become so populous that they were destroying all the landscape > > plants. > > > > > > > Shoot, eat. > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
