Fibes wrote on Tue, 22 August 2006 12:57 |
I gotcha Tik, believe me, my wife has done all the research and i've heard it all. The sheer amount of people walking the earth does not allow for earth friendly food production, but i buy organic, from local farms, and fish for my fish and personally think that everyone (which i know you've done) should have to kill and clean an animal before they eat it. At least once.
Having lived in the woods for a month on what one can find, gather or kill puts a new perspective on survival. It also enables a nefound respect for those animals that do that every day. That experience made me realize what i need and that isn't filet mignon. To each his own.
I look at the girl who pitches a fit smashing cups in the driveway at a party (because she is vegan) in a very odd way. She's real but not realistic. What a waste of good styro-foam and a buzz-kill to boot.
You gotta pick your battles or go mad.
I'm already mad so...
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Unfortunately you are right.
I really don't consider myself a sportsman. When I kill an animal I wouldn't say it's depressing but it is not fun.
So why hunt?
To tell you the truth I have no idea. I have been on drive hunts where Bambi comes running up to me and stops. Black eyes watering, tongue out and panting, ten feet away.
I could not pull the trigger.
Shooting at game in Africa or Czech or Germany or America...for what?
Walking across endless field here, hunting, studying, planting trees, looking at who killed what.
The automobiles and the plow, discs, fertilizers...do everything from thin eggs of ground nesting birds, cause runoff and mangle and twist baby animals, worms, birds...everything.
I would never dismiss anyone for trying to eliminate pain and suffering, but this may be as natural as breathing.
No idea...
WTF was I talking about?
I guess the main reason I go hunting is to learn and be involved in nature and the reality of death.
Much like working for yourself, you either make money or you are finished. THAT is fukken reality!
Going to the supermarket while working for the man....you have no idea what the fukk is up unless you read about it in Wikipedia....and it's the same with war and it's the same with a good mix...
lemme nough
tik