So the protesters are doing their thing and shouting about the annual duck season. AGAIN.
‘Scuse me for a minute while I laugh a little.
Okay, protesters? You know who is out of a hobby if all the ducks get shot and can’t re-breed? The duck hunters. So don’t you think, that maybe they’re invested in the well being of the ducks as a whole? Just a teensy little bit invested?
And yes, there might be cowboys who are shooting for the sake of shooting. Screaming at them and disrupting the hunt is probably not the way to go about reeducating the idiots. Personally, if it’s the idiots you’re targeting, you couldn’t pay me to stand in front of them and whistle and dance while they try to shoot ducks.
So they’re probably not targeting the idiots.
Surely, just surely, there are worse things involving animals and turning them into food (because trust me, if you’ve gone to all the trouble of dodging the protesters and shooting a duck, you’re fucking well going to eat the thing). Like maybe, OH I DON’T KNOW, commercial pig farming? Just MAYBE, we ought to be protesting at a pig farm, or a battery hen farm. Or for those of you in the USA and Canada, the horse slaughter trade and auctions. Because it’s not that the animals are slaughtered, it’s the way they do it and how the animals are transported in the first place.
So MAYBE, just MAYBE, we have bigger issues than the fuzzy wuzzy ducks and cutsie wootsie wallabies being killed. Wallabies btw are vicious little things, invested in the serious business of garden and fruit tree murder. I’m pretty sure if you look at one wrong they’ll stab you with the knives they keep in their pouches. Kill em before they kill you is my theory [so long as that death is quick and humane. Please don’t try to suffocate one, or shoot it with little darts and a blow gun. Please].
Also, for the record, if a wild duck or two dropped into my yard, they’d be dinner, pretty fast. (My actual plan is to breed and eat Muscovy ducks, but that’s not happening. YET.)
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Quick question: If a blogger posts a post on a Sunday – and no one reads it, does it still exist? Enquiring minds want to know.
Well, I read it 🙂 So we don’t need to resort to Bishop Berkeley quite yet.
Completely OTT but do you know the poem summarising that entire philosophical debate?
“There was a young man who said “God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there’s no one about in the quad.”
“Dear Sir: Your astonishment’s odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that’s why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”
I’m reading on a sunday 🙂
I agree with you.
Hey, how about we have protester hunting season?
It’s sunday, and I’m here!
Some people are just too dumb to realise what’s actually worth protesting about.
I love the thought of duck for dinner… *drools* 😉
(also… I *love* your angry posts! hehe 😉 )
It’s still Sunday morning here (Cape Cod) and I’m reading. Folks here are protesting N Star (electric utility co)’s plan to spray five herbicides under 150 miles of power lines on our sandy glacial soils. Others are protesting the national seashore’s plan to kill some crows which have learned to feed on endangered piping plover eggs. Plans include injecting chicken eggs with a specific crow poison and putting them into fake plover nest enclosures along two beaches. I’m more worried about the powerline spraying… we have high cancer rates here already, and we don’t need more chemicals in our groundwater. ‘Safe’ game hunting done FAR away from homes doesn’t bother me, and a duck dinner sounds yummy.
Ok so it’s mid day Monday here.. does that matter?
I’m currently knee deep in sorting out how I feel about our current food chain and where I’d like to go with this. But I feel pretty strongly that killing and eating an animal who has had a good, wild/free range life is far better than eating an animal who has never known freedom, let alone real food or the ability to walk on dirt…. If the protesters are devout vegans then perhaps they have a leg to stand on, but even then I’ve been reading lately about the amount of damage and killing that occurs to grow and bring in so called ‘vegan staples’ like soy etc….
Anyway… this is just a HUGE topic and what I really wanted to say is that we are making plans to eat at least one of our ducks soon (we managed to get two boys!) as well as our first home grown chook…. will let you know how it goes!
It only exists if there is not another post on Monday to eat it up.
No offence to vegans but if they are reading this I expect they are sitting down!
I agree entirely with you. Don’t get me started on fox hunting protestors over here in the UK. City dwellers no doubt who eat battery eggs and have never seen the carnage a fox can do to chickens.
I should let my husband respond to this…because he’d get his jollies agreeing with you in ALL CAPITALS. He’s a hunter, I grew up eating ONLY meat that was hunted, and I can say that hunting is the most humane source of meat around. I, personally, have issues with STUPID hunters who can’t get the job done humanely…but that’s just me. Currently, our goose seasons are not getting the overpopulation under control (too many new housing developments means fewer places to hunt safely) and the goose overpopulation is OUT OF CONTROL. The geese are destroying every grassy area around. Oh, right… and geese flying in the flight path of airplanes is very VERY bad.
My husband did not get out to hunt this year at all… and I’m DYING for goose dinner.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The protesters need to get into the animal farming operations and start blowing whistles there.
Well, they could always go hunting with Dick Cheney. But you’re right. Duck hunters are VERY concerned with keeping a viable population of ducks going.
I’m an environmentalist and an animal-rights-type-person, and I don’t have a damn problem with hunting. Just don’t hunt more than you can eat, and only take the shot if you’re sure it’ll be a clean kill.
Hear, hear (or is it here, here, I’m never sure) and well said.
I love Kathy’s comment on the whole Sunday/tree thing.
Robin – That’s exactly how I feel.
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