True as it maybe there are folks who have to hunt to feed their families, and I
am not someone to begrudge someone else's "survival".
However, speaking from experience also, everyone I have ever met has hunted for
"sport" and to be w/ their buddies.
And lots them have to have the "trophy" head on the wall.
Give me a friggin' break..........
(Now I just avoid people such as this, easy enough)
I will never forget the time just a couple of years ago I was driving down a
major street in Austin and what do I see next to me?
A shiny new truck w/ the tailbed stuffed FULL of dead deer, tongues hanging out
& eyes popped open.
I guess it never occured to these nitwits to @ least cover up their atrocities.
What in the world made them think that
a) everyone else wanted to see their fresh kills
b) that so blantantly displaying it was "Ok".......?
But on another note, in my opinion, it has come to a time in this day & age,
that if you cannot afford to feed your family, perhaps birth control methods
should be practiced?
And I can say this, I am "child free"..........
Susan J. DuBose >^..^<
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Faithful Bast at her side did wait,
Purring welcomes of soft applause,
Ever guarding with sharpened claws."
Trajan Tennent
----- Original Message -----
From: Barb Moermond
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: OT: deer hunters: Greater heart attack risk
first, I agree that canned hunts are absolutely wrong; besides, where's the
"sport" in catching something inside a fence?
second, most deer hunters are NOT "fat cats". In a lot of really rural
areas, the poverty is such that there are many many families who depend on
hunting to feed their families through the winter. (Vegetarianism isn't the
answer for everybody; it's a choice.) These people are working full time and
then some to simply keep a roof over their heads. Gardening is helpful, but
not enough.
third, we have to face the unpleasant reality that we have forced
overpopulation issues by replacing habitat with farmland and highways and
killing off their historical natural preditors (wolves, coyotes etc). The
farms are regular sources of food and the deer population has adjusted itself
accordingly with hunting and highways as part of their natural chain.
Do you honestly think it is better for deer to starve slowly in the winter,
damaging farmer's crops, than to die quickly? I don't know any hunters who are
happy about wounding an animal w/o killing it and they do their best to be good
shots.
I know from personal experience that there are nasty people in any kind of
category you choose to divide them into, but I believe, also from personal
experience, that the vast majority aren't nasty.
This said, I am not going to enter into a debate. I've lived around hunters
all my life and have an actual conservation ecologist in the family and the
above is sincerely believed by me.
Barb+Smoky the House Puma+El Bandito Malito
"My cat the clown: paying no mind to whom he should impress. Merely living
his life, doing what pleases him, and making me smile."
- Anonymous
