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In reply to the discussion: Had a nice day deer hunting in Maine today. Last day for regular season. A big Maine tradition. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)You keep yelling at me about hiking in the woods "without the killing" even after I have told you I. do. not. hunt. You acknowledge it on the one hand, then throw it in my face on your way outta the post.
Your lifestyle is NOT typical. How nice that you live in the deep dark woods in a tiny cabin on less than ten grand a year. Do you have a spouse, a grandparent, and three or four kids that need schooling--and quality protein to permit them to process that schooling-- under that roof, too? Why do I think you don't?
And you can pretend that deer don't live in the suburban littorals while you go on and on about cabins in the woods. Most people I know see deer from the windows of their centrally heated homes in their subdivisions, not walking in the forest far away from communities.
The people with the wasteful lifestyles aren't the hunters. They eat what they kill. They aren't wrapping their meat in plastic and shipping it around the world; they wrap it in butcher paper and take it home to their own freezers. Then they cook it and eat it--the cost is a bullet and their labor, not three bucks a pound.
And we, as a species, don't need deer reproducing like--dare I say--rabbits, and starving all over hell in winter. Nor do we need wolves running amuck in suburbia to control the deer population....because of course, it's much better for Fang the Wolf and his pals to tear Bambi to shreds on one's front lawn than for a hunter to take that deer down with one shot.
The people I know who hunt do so to feed their families--not to get into any "killing enjoyment" (that's your sick view, but NEWS FLASH--it's not controlling). You can't deal with that? Too bad--you don't get to be the decider about how they put protein in their children's and grandchildren's bellies. And if you want to really learn something about "actual, real" life, try telling hungry little kids that there's nothing to eat because "paw" -or "maw"- couldn't be bothered to provide anything to fill their stomachs, but that they should be ashamed because of "killing enjoyment" or some other ridiculous horseshit you're inventing to create an amazing uninformed and faux argument. You think that these parents don't engage in some actual thought processes? I'd say the "Hungry kids? Fed kids? Which is better?" thought process is a lot more salient than the sanctimonious nonsense you are putting out--to be quite blunt.