I'm all for restoring our connection with nature. Maybe then we'll stop swallowing this global warming bullshit. "The sky's falling in!"
The idea of humane killing is a bit of a moral figleaf. I'm sure it's a great comfort to the deer to know it's being killed with kindness. I'd love to do some primeval hunting: kill it, skin it, eat it. Dance round the fire in the nuddy after. Nigel. On 28 January 2010 20:28, Damian Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- blog.mindbrix.co.uk/2010/01/20/zoomable-gallery/ www.concentrichron.com -- Mindbrix -- Dream it, draw it, build it, love it 69 Derby Street Beeston Nottingham NG9 2LG +44 7905 311 352 [email protected] www.mindbrix.co.uk Skype: ntbarber twitter.com/mindbrix _______________________________________________ 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
