Admittedly your not in an abattoir with the gun-thing pressed up to its head, but you're not going to kill a deer with buckshot at more than 12 paces anyway - and only then if you're a good shot. Spears would be unnecessarily cruel. You're killing the animal for food, not for pleasure.
But the point is - when you eat your venison, you know where it comes from, there's no hypocritical "from the supermarket", you know that the beast had the life that nature (almost) intended (there's no more wolves) and if its death was a little more mechanised than tooth and claw, at least it was quicker. And you deal directly with cleaning up (and cutting up ;) - no opaque plastic clingfilm to help you ignore what you've done. A friend of mine raises two or three pigs a year. He gets inordinately attached to them (as I would I'm sure) so his mum has to kill them. Even so, he has no moral dilemma - he just knows the moral cost of what he's eating. Unlike, I suspect, most people who for example consume any milk product - dairy farming truly is horrible. Damian On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Nigel Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > How about spears instead? If you're going to kill something, the least you > can do is look it in the eye. > > > Nigel. > > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist www.leedslist.net
