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hunter

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12. I think factory farms are much, much worse...
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 02:57 PM
Aug 2012

... and these monstrous meat and dairy corporations advertise everywhere. What do we boycott first?

Most of the meat I ate as a little kid was fish my dad caught.

Eating sausage made from a deer my neighbor shot doesn't seem so bad to me as eating hot dogs made from old dairy cows that lived their entire lives crowded together on mountains of shit.

Hunter is my name, not what I do. If I had to hunt I would, but most days I'm a vegetarian. Even so, I've got dogs and some of their feed originates in factory farms.

People are farmers and hunter-gatherers. It's in our genes.

I believe it's possible to be an ethical carnivore. I think markets as they now exist work against that.

So far as television goes, I've been boycotting all cable or satellite channels for almost a year now.

Hunting critters... [View all] xtraxritical Aug 2012 OP
Some of us like to hunt and offer no apology for it. badtoworse Aug 2012 #1
I don't get it? xtraxritical Aug 2012 #2
They're hunting deer in Ohio and bear in Alberta. What's wrong with that? badtoworse Aug 2012 #3
What's to get? ohheckyeah Aug 2012 #14
Analysis: Angling, Hunting are big business MicaelS Aug 2012 #4
Because a fair number of people nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #5
Orange you luckey! xtraxritical Aug 2012 #6
I too hunt Equate Aug 2012 #7
My tool of choice is a 300 mm lens (as in a camera) nadinbrzezinski Aug 2012 #13
Hunting, gathering, and farming are wonderful circle of life activities. aikoaiko Aug 2012 #8
Hunting to eat is one thing, but I'm just sick to death of finding the carcasses of animals Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #9
+1000 Equate Aug 2012 #10
I live in a hunting community, LWolf Aug 2012 #11
I wish the prey could shoot back. That would make it at least coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #16
Not that I agree with you Equate Aug 2012 #18
LOL- Sharing with my wife who will probly want to post to coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #19
Agreed Equate Aug 2012 #20
Now that would be a sport. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #22
Tee-hee. I think you've coined a new word ("he-manliness"). Like you, I have no quarrel coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #23
I think factory farms are much, much worse... hunter Aug 2012 #12
Every time I think of trophy hunters I can't help but think of this song modem77 Aug 2012 #15
Paired with "Happiness is a Warm Gun" (one of my coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #17
Here is a hunting critter: MineralMan Aug 2012 #21
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