Do You Hunt?

[Disney_traveler]

I could send a zillion slaughter videos that show a horror story for the animals most people consume but here is not the place. A quick google should suffice though.

And I can guarantee you that:
--- a lot of those are 1 in a million incidences that extremist animal rights groups get ahold of and blow out of proportion
OR
--- were staged by said groups
OR
---were minor facilities that have been investigated, penalized or shut down by the USDA.

What is in the grocery store comes from regulated facilities following the rules.

like I said, in order for meat to be produced, the animal has to die. I am 99% certain it isn't please to die whether human or animal. But I understand it.

 

[rastahomie]

My father hunted while it was still legal. We ate quite a bit of the meat, and we have some skins from some animals.

Where do you live where hunting is illegal?

 

[North of Mouse]

{{shudder}} If I knew you liked them I'd buy some of these a bus ticket. The ones around here don't need any help finding food, nor do they need any encouragement. The huge spruce trees just outside my back fence are literally crawling with them 12 months a year. The noise they make - chattering back and forth to one another - can be loud enough that we can't sleep with the windows open in summer.

Boy, do I agree!! We live in lots of woods near a large lake and the squirrels breed here like rabbits - LOL - A pellet gun takes care of a lot of them that try to destroy our yard (and flowers) bird feeder, and garden. They literally take our large tomatoes up the trees!!!

As for hunting - dh doesn't hunt, but I have no issues with those that do it when they stock their freezers and eat the meat. I didn't think I liked venison until I ate some that was prepared correctly - now I find it very good. You 'must' skin it correctly without getting any of the hair on the meat.

But, as some pps said, If I, personally, had to kill animals for meat, would just have to become a vegetarian - just couldn't do it!! Not for any moral issues, just physical/phycological ones.
But, I do love a good steak, roast, ham, etc. except organ meats.

 

[sonnyjane]

I don't even kill spiders or ants, so I definitely don't hunt. That said, my thoughts on hunting have changed over the years. Back when I ate meat, I convinced myself that it was better to eat a cow than a deer because the cows were bred specifically to be eaten whereas the deer were wild animals. Now, after so much has come to light about the farming industry, I cannot in any way condone doing anything to support that enterprise. At least wild animals have had some semblance of a life, compared to the cows and pigs that grow up in pens with broken legs unable to turn around. I'll never, ever, ever condone hunting for sport, or hunting mothers or pregnant animals etc., but I can definitely see an argument for subsistence hunting and actually wish the world would go back to the olden days where you killed only what you needed to eat, and grew your own produce. I personally do not eat animals myself, but those that consume the entire animal, use the skin, the bones, the teeth, etc. - I have a lot more respect for that.

 

[kimblebee]

Off topic, but @ronandannette youd hate sleeping over at my house. I swear we have one chipmunk that sits out of our window and natters so long every morning. I got so annoyed once I yelled out the window for it to shut up LOL

The longest I've heard it at one time was like 45 minutes..at 5 AM of course.

 

[DawnM]

Where do you live where hunting is illegal?

Kenya. It was banned in 1977.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

And I can guarantee you that:
--- a lot of those are 1 in a million incidences that extremist animal rights groups get ahold of and blow out of proportion
OR
--- were staged by said groups
OR
---were minor facilities that have been investigated, penalized or shut down by the USDA.

What is in the grocery store comes from regulated facilities following the rules.

like I said, in order for meat to be produced, the animal has to die. I am 99% certain it isn't please to die whether human or animal. But I understand it.

Sorry, you can't guarantee me anything. I'm well caught up on everything and following the "rules" in many cases is still majorly inhumane in my books. I'm glad you got to see the "humane" videos in your school though.

 

[Disney_traveler]

Sorry, you can't guarantee me anything. I'm well caught up on everything and following the "rules" in many cases is still majorly inhumane in my books. I'm glad you got to see the "humane" videos in your school though.

Honest question----you read the title? Then why come in here and single out those with opposing viewpoints and harass them with your viewpoints?

Or follow them to other thread and do the same there?

 

[tasha99]

I don't, but I have benefitted from friends who do, esp. when I lived in Alaska. Moose is the best!

I do fish, though.

 

[ronandannette]

Off topic, but @ronandannette youd hate sleeping over at my house. I swear we have one chipmunk that sits out of our window and natters so long every morning. I got so annoyed once I yelled out the window for it to shut up LOL

The longest I've heard it at one time was like 45 minutes..at 5 AM of course.

I would be tempted to whack it with a golf club. I actually considered that last year when out of morbid fascination I watched 3 squirrels systematically dig up all my dahlia corms and carry them off. Nasty little rat-bastards!!

That said, I'd still come for a sleep-over. We could eat junk food , do each others' nails and talk about boys !!

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

Honest question----you read the title? Then why come in here and single out those with opposing viewpoints and harass them with your viewpoints?

Or follow them to other thread and do the same there?

Who is harassing whom? lol

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

I would be tempted to whack it with a golf club. I actually considered that last year when out of morbid fascination I watched 3 squirrels systematically dig up all my dahlia corms and carry them off. Nasty little rat-bastards!!

That said, I'd still come for a sleep-over. We could eat junk food , do each others' nails and talk about boys !!

Bizarrely, my squirrels leave my garden alone yet my neighbor complains about the squirrels eating her bulbs.

 

[ronandannette]

Bizarrely, my squirrels leave my garden alone yet my neighbor complains about the squirrels eating her bulbs.

Gonna assume they're sensing your animal-honouring vibe and responding with peaceful co-existence!

 

[superme80]

I don't trust myself with a gun. I fully support those who do hunt.

 

[Disney_traveler]

Who is harassing whom? lol

All I did was ask an honest question based on observations of poster behavior....but whatever....

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

Gonna assume they're sensing your animal-honouring vibe and responding with peaceful co-existence!

I'd like to think so but we have tons of birds who eat the plants too. She has a bird feeder. I don't.

 

[Disney_traveler]

I don't trust myself with a gun. I fully support those who do hunt.

You can join me with my cousins' toy rubber band gun and one of those popping cork guns! That's probably the only on I can be trusted with! Hahahah

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

All I did was ask an honest question based on observations of poster behavior....but whatever....

What poster behavior? I answered on the other thread first. This thread started because of another poster's answer about bucket lists. I wasn't the one who started either. I am just participating in an open discussion. Not harassing anyone, thank you.

 

[superme80]

You can join me with my cousins' toy rubber band gun and one of those popping cork guns! That's probably the only on I can be trusted with! Hahahah

Sadly I broke my rubber band gun. I used to be an ace with a sling shot.

 

[ols386]

I've never hunted, and can't stand the thought of hunting just for the sport of it. If other people hunt, that's their business, but it's not for me.