RE: Vegetarian goes hunting: WTF?

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RE: Vegetarian goes hunting: WTF?

galenkp in #guns • 7 years ago

I was a vegetarian until the age of 18 (17.5 actually) when I left home. It wasn't about not killing animals, my mum was and so we all were.

The animals I shoot...What happens? Well they stay where they fell. I'll go back a week later and they're all but gone. Other animals est them up. They don't last long. If I shoot a deer I call a mate who always takes it so it doesn't go to waste.

Like others have commented the animals do not suffer. They simply are there one split second and gone the next. There is no intervening moment. It's more humane than an abattoir. You've seen the videos so know first hand. They have a free life, no cages, no cramped trucks, no walk up the ramp to the electric shock area watching their mates ahead of them getting slaughtered all the while. They live life in the wild and then it ends.

@stuffing did well. A real trooper and all done with a broken leg bone mind you...She's a good person and has a voracious appetite for understanding.

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honeydue 7 years ago

But then what's the point? I mean, you shoot animals on someone's farm because they're trespassing or too many or something like that, right? Well, why would the guy want animal carcasses on his farm? It's weird...
And what does your mate do with the deer? :O

I don't know, I don't think the 'cruel' bit is about them suffering. I think it's about them dying for no reason...

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galenkp 7 years ago

They are culled because the damage they do to the property, fences and for eating precious feed that the cows need. The carcases are gone withing days usually so they don't litter the property. I may shoot 1 to 3 a night and go about twice a month. It's a big property so there's not hundreds of dead animals lying around. This happens on almost ever single farm around the world. Maybe not a solar or wind farm.

Sometimes it's hard for people to understand the concept and the way it happens. For example, last night we didn't see ONE carcass lying around and I was only there the week earlier and shot 4. Not one remained.

My mate eats the venison. He hasn't bought meat for consumption for 20 years. He shoots his own or gets it from people like me. He's a farmer too and has a property even bigger than the one I shoot on. It's against the law to take the kangaroo meat and so that stays, but the deer...Well, it gets eaten. (Not by me though, I hardly est much meat at all.)

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honeydue 7 years ago

Huh. I wonder if they do that here, as well :O I suppose it makes sense, then...

It's against the law to take the kangaroo meat

Why?

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galenkp 7 years ago

To shoot kangaroos here one needs tags, permits as such. The farmer has a heap of them, lots actually, and I can shoot as many kangaroos as he is tagged/permitted for in an annual period. I cannot shoot more. It's a control mechanism so millions of them don't get shot. Still, there is no shortage of them. So, if I was hunting in the outback it's a different story, but I can't take them off the farm.

Culling takes place all over the world. It wasn't that long ago they were culling the koala population here for some reason. I don't know why and I'd never shoot a koala.

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