People are not going to reduce their meat consumption. The meat has to come from somewhere. I think it’s preferable the animal has a decent life before dying.
Man what is this fuckery.
\https://nypost.com/2019/11/17/three-people-shot-by-mistake-as-deer-hunting-begins-in-michigan/
The first incident occurred on Friday when a man discharged his hunting rifle by accident inside his Crawford County home and fragments from the bullet pierced his two sons, ages 4 and 6, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Oops!
The second shooting took place at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday when a 29-year-old man mistook his younger brother, 28, for a deer and accidentally shot him with a muzzle rifle in a Boston Township cornfield, according to the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office.
The duo got separated while searching for a deer and the older brother fired when he heard what he believed to be the animal moving around nearby.
Sure, right. If I get separated from my brother in a cornfield, I’m definitely going to take a potshot at the first thing that moves.
No arrests were made in either incident.
Of course not. No one behaving criminally irresponsibly here!
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This seems like more of a problem with the laws than with hunting per se.
It’s kind of a Catch-22 problem, though, right? The Venn Diagram intersection of responsible gun owners and people who enjoy shooting animals for fun is extremely small. We’re never going to have a culture of hunters who kill animals to feed their families because this isn’t 18th century America. It’s a stupid, sociopathic pastime that results in who knows how many small children getting shot.
I eat way too much meat to look down my nose at hunters.
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Eating sausages every week increases your chance of getting bowel cancer by 300% (or whatever the figure was that I can’t be arsed to look up).
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I found this informative graphic and I was thinking. Why don’t we just cut out the middleman and go straight to satanic worship?
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Why does Planned Parenthood look like it was tacked on over something else?
Because it was, I would imagine. Once Planned Parenthood takes leaf in the air, very quickly it will send the roots of Communism shooting down into the ground. That’s just how trees work.
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Is it the thrill of killing something? Definitely for some people. But for many people it’s a tradition and it’s a sacred connection to our ancestors and to the earth. If you didn’t grow up a hunter and/or a person that is very connected with the outdoors it’s probably impossible to understand.
This is a pretty good book that tries to examine these things:
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodties-Nature-Culture-Kodansha-Globe/dp/1568360274
I also reject your idea that killing is 99% the point and meat 1%. A lot of these people’s identity (meaning your example of the Midwestern hunter) is completely intertwined with being an outdoorsman. The meat is much more the point than the killing. They take immense pleasure and pride with serving meat and fish that they harvested themselves. A good amount of them make jerky, sausage, and other kinds of these foods because it’s a further bond to the past.
Now the exotic trophy hunter and the people who go shoot animals that are practically tied to a leash in front of them – that I cannot identify with at all.
For those interested SpaceX rocket is scheduled to splash down at 2:48pm today into the Atlantic. Live on Discovery Channel.
Hunting is obviously fun. The only animals I’ve ever hunted are rats (not for the meat!)*, but sometimes when I’ve seen deer or wild pigs or something when hiking I’ve stalked them and felt the instinct.
*not counting invertebrates and I did dangle a fishing pole once as a kid, but didn’t catch anything.
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Meat is murder, plain and simple, but factory farming is worse. Seems like a weird anti-individualist take to support factory farming over hunting. Taking personal responsibility for killing is better than paying someone else to do it.
And that’s before considering the atrocities of factory farming to the animals, the environment, and the people who work in the industry.
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Deer fucking suck. That’s why.
I tried hunting once. Kinda felt sick when I saw a wounded deer. Not everybody’s a good shot and watching a wounded animal suffer is just brutal. Even though I hate deer, I don’t hate them enough to watch them stumble around before falling and bleeding out.
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I finally got around to watching Sorry to Bother You last night and now all I can think about is:
The CEO explaining the horse thing to Cash and just saying, “Oh no, it’s fine, you just need to watch the video, you’ll get it. They’re just going to be horse people, it’s fine, don’t worry about it, it all makes sense.” Followed of course by Cash exposing that, which results in the stock of the company soaring, because it’s fine, they just have a bunch of horse people.
And that’s basically how I look at a few of my past jobs. Just these constant 90 hour weeks in semi-dangerous settings, while being on call 24/7 for multiple projects around the country. It’s fine, we’re paying you enough, you just need to never date or relax or have a social life, it’s fine.
It was just an amazing movie.
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You just reminded me, to watch it. 
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They keep trying to kill themslefs with my car. Last one i hit a few years back cost me 3k…
Well my insurance 3k, i did not even have to pay the delectable because it hit me in the side and they told me if it was in the front i would have had to…
Fishing might be the the cruelest from of hunting. Its like putting a string on a carrot with a hook and reeling in a rabbit.
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Existing is murder.
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