I know people have that attitude and some people who hunt are dickheads but when you go hunting with people who attempt to live off than land they have a lot of respect for the animals and the land for that matter. When you get the halfassed guys who like to drink and walk around with guns then you have cowards. In both Maine and Minnesota I knew some real hunters who were very good people.
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Hunting is part of my First Nations culture. I personally am not a hunter, but many people that I know are. One of my brothers is. I was a fisherman. Not a lot of hunters here anymore. In this band of 1700 members, I don't think there's 100 hunters.
East of here in Verendrye park, the Anishinabek of Barriere Lake (Rapid Lake) still get most of their food from hunting and fishing and trapping. The white men keep cutting down all the park though, destroying habitat. It's clear-cutting. They say it's selective-cutting, taking the large trees, leaving the small ones, they give it fancy names; bull$#!t, get out in the bush and you'll see it's clear-cutting. Everything's gone, and the ground is torn all to hell.
Anyway, we'll be having a traditional community Winter feast here on Dec 19. Moose meat and pickerel and trout for sure, and probably some deer and maybe rabbit too. Some drumming. Someone'll be doing a sunrise ceremony early that morning. It's all free.
My friend Will still follows the tradition of giving a snack to the Elders. He gets a moose or some fish, he makes the rds giving a snack to the Elders.
I don't object to hunting. I object to unnecessary animal suffering though, and to killing animals for no reason. You gotta have that respect for the animals, you give thanks, and you eat what you take.
Here's my pal Myles who was out hunting and came across the dead deer. The old man is 91 years old at the time of the video, Regis, and he's still alive right now, 96 now. He was born at a time when Jack Dempsey was just a contender.
I don't think my logic is a blanket statement for hunters. I haven't hunted in years and to be honest the few times I did I did not enjoy the act. I just happen to be a decent marksmen so I tried it out. I don't even know how I got into a hunting schpeil. This all started with me killing a plant in cold blood and then having a homophobic panic attack. Hunting can be beneficial in certain parts of the country where deer starve during the winter and or end up shattered on the side of the road. I am not qualified to speak on behalf of all hunters at large although if I have a few drinks I speak at large on any subject.
I don't see the problem with hunting, but you MUST eat the animal for it to be justified. I think people like Cameron and the Queen are appalling degraded scoundrels for killing animals with no intention of eating them. It is an utterly pointless waste of life.
I love eating meat and yesterday cooked the loveliest steak, but part of me is now leaning more to the animal protectors point of view. I was reading an article today about battery chicken farms filling the chickens with additives and water and is that really what it is all about? Cows full of drugs, eating their own shit, and then me eventually frying it?
I want the animal to at least have had some freedom and comfort before satiating my appetite. In that sense randomly shooting a free animal and eating it is far more fulfilling than me popping down to Costco. Most of us have no idea where our meat comes from and the truth of it all would make many of us queasy and sick inside.
I've waffled and have no idea what this thread is about. Maybe yes, you are and maybe, no you aren't. I've been distracted and haven't got the foggiest.
Wasn't there another alternative: ask your group of friends and family if they would like to have your plant?
Remember the Simpsons episode where he thought Bart was gay and took him out to go hunting.![]()
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Is it a big deal to you guys about being a homo, it don't seem to bother others like Miles.
Im a homo.
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