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I eat meat, I've never been opposed to hunting for food. To me, PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Kepler
And I have never been opposed to eliminating the fox which has been raiding your hen house.
But even varmints deserve to be dispatched as quickly & cleanly as possible.
And I repeat....is the coyote that occasionally eats the fox in on this gig? The poison that the County used to use to kill foxes back when the world was a bit different was basically rat poison...ground glass and warfarin, an anti-coagulent....the glass chewed their guts up and the warfarin kept'um bleeding. I've had pancreatitis and a bleeding gut can't be much more fun!
Generally Brian, I agree with you....but I'm more than willing to make exceptions without losing any sleep!
The quote about the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible was by Oscar Wilde, not Winston Churchill.
Jim
I have had foxes run past my blind, while deer hunting, on 2 occasions. I never even thought about shooting them. There are not enough of them around to be too destructive.
Maybe someone needs to build a better chicken coup?!
What do you think the fox does when it catches a mouse or a rabbit? What do you think wolves or coyotes do when they catch rabbits or deer?Quote:
Not to take sides, but fox hunting, English style (now banned), doesn't involve guns or traps. When the hounds catch the fox, they tear it to pieces; IMHO, one does not have to be a nutcase PETA type to have a few qualms about that.
Most creatures outside your front door get torn to pieces, consumed, etc. It's called reality.
But that's what puts us a step above the wild creatures. Or so I thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vern Humphrey
Yes, we kill. Mostly to eat, sometimes for sport.
I'm no bleeding-heart namby-pamby. I eat meat. I hunt & fish. But I believe it is my duty to the animal which I am taking to dispatch it as quickly and cleanly as possible. Note I said "as possible". I know a quick, clean kill, down & out & never knew what hit it, isn't always going to happen. 'Specially on larger game which can sometimes run for hundreds of meters with a hole in its heart. But it is always desirable.
Bottom line, I don't enjoy watching my prey suffer for any longer than it has to.
Are you all implying that you do?
Those of you getting into a debate about the ethics of fox hunting-did you check out the picture in the first post? It is funny. It made me laugh almost as much as this pic. Google Image Result for http://www.alphapatriot.com/home/images/2007/SquirrelKill.jpg
GI Joe- The Real American Squirrel Hunter.
I was wondering when this was going to be pointed out ;-)
Semi-antisemantics are OK; it's the full auto antisemantics that require a special license but even they are completely outlawed in New Jersey, even though many practicing orthodox semantics live in the northern part of the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by goo