Wilford Brimley has died.
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Wow I thought you were kidding as I assumed he was dead long ago. How was he 85 only! He played a senior citizen in Cocoon in 1985!
He was an awesome bad guy in The Firm.
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We’ve been a hunting (and gathering) species for hundreds of thousands of years longer than we’ve practiced agriculture. It would be weird if people didn’t hunt, and I think it’s a bit shameful that I am omnivorous but have never taken the time or effort to personally kill any animal I’ve eaten other than a few fish.
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Hunting, if you are going to eat the animal, is a very different story.
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Hunting to eat is better/less bad than eating a factory farmed animal. It’s not horrible to enjoy it either, but have some god damned respect and don’t kill for fun or trophies.
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Sounds like one of those things where the wealthy donate to feel like they’re doing good, but it ends up all being in service of large industry stakeholders in reality.
Is it, though? Like, for the comfortable Midwestern white people who go out hunting on weekends, the payoff is 99% the thrill of shooting something, and 1% the venison jerkey you get to eat afterward. The meat is a pretext, killing animals is the real point of the exercise.
My stepfather - who is the person I get all my game meat from - is the most srs biz hunter, fisher, and overall outdoorsman I’ve ever met. He is more passionate and informed about ecological responsibility than any hippie tree hugger out there. He eats or gives away the meat from any deer, turkey, moose, whatever he kills, and he gets genuinely angry when others waste it.
But that’s not why he hunts, and he also kills coyotes and squirrels for sport. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I won’t pretend I understand any of it.
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Bullshit. I mean, anyone who plays video games understands the thrill of the hunt. That shit is hardwired into our psyches. We need to reconcile the fact that our hunter-gatherer origin story is badly at odds with our modern agribusiness way of life.
Yeah, I suppose that’s true. I think I’ve said before that the society we’ve built for ourselves is not a very good fit for the species we are.
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I feel like people have some romanticized notion that Michiganders are going out hunting on weekends to provide food for their families like the hunter-gatherers of ancient times, and let me tell you that is some romanticized nonsense. In the Midwest we do have grocery stores and whatnot, no one is kitting themselves out at Cabelas because they need a source of protein to feed their family, they do that because hunting and killing animals is a lot of fun and the meat they extract afterwards is an afterthought.
worf did a whole episode about this in ds9 i think
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PS: can we talk about “accidental” deaths that happen because of hunting? My mom was almost killed playing in her backyard because a hunter took a potshot at her and missed and hit a window. This shit happens all the time in the Midwest, and back in the day it was almost always ruled an accidental death. Fuck these twisted dipshits who keep murdering children because they can’t tell the difference between an 9-year-old girl and a deer. People actually getting charged for this is a very new development, back in the day it was like, oh you mistook this young girl for a deer and shot her, easy mistake.
They do provide food though. Most people eat meat. Would you rather it comes from a factory farm or from a deer that lived free in the woods?
Why should the deer be preferred? The factory farm animal is going go die. The deer has a chance not too.