Shard

Big brains require a lot of calorific energy and this can most efficiently be obtained from meat. That's one reason why our veggie chimp cousins never became very clever.

Sally Redux

I'll have to check up on this.

Oakvillian

Me, for one. The combination of other people's little darlings and the saccharine pinkness of Disney theme parks is vomitous in the extreme. I take undue amounts of pleasure from the fact that we've never (yet...) been pestered for anything Uncle Walt purveys, beyond occasional trips to the movies and a die-cast Lightning McQueen character or two.

cjones

Chimps ain't veggies. They're omnivorous and have even been known to indulge in a bit of cannibalism.

And by your evolutionary logic, we should by this point in time be the domesticated pets of far more developed exclusively carnivorous dogs and cats.

Still, carry on professor....

CKMaddAll

Regarding the churning up of chickens... naturally they are the egg laying variety, not the ones used for meat.

Google "Chicken" and "wood chippers" apparently it is common practice in the battery chicken egg production world.

For the record - I am against trophy hunting. I like hunting the same way I like fishing - to catch my food and cook it... living off the fat of the land and all that. I would never shoot something I was not willing to eat.

CKMaddAll

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the sole prerequisite for logical thought is meat consumption...

Shard

Well, it's not my evolutionary logic, it's established theory. I take your point on chimps being omnivorous, but meat is very tiny proportion of their diet (single %) and that's consistent with their relatively small brain size. Incidentally, it's brain size relative to body size in case you're wondering why Tiger's aren't dons.

cjones

Why? The fact that it's either eaten of hung on a wall is of no concern to the dead animal. Isn't your stand just more a case of you justifying to yourself why you cut it's life short?

scootb

The anti's just can't seem to keep out of these threads.
My hunting trip has been postponed until next weekend which is good and bad,good as its a long weekend so less time off work,bad because its gonna be alot colder lol.

Siouxie

Why should they?

It's an open forum and everyone is entitled to their opinion, regardless of whether it happens to co-incide with yours.

Out of interest, did you go fox hunting when you lived in the UK? You have only been in Canada for around 6 months yet seem to be an authority on hunting, so I am curious as to whether you did it in the UK as well.

jossie

Yeah, they can't help themselves. As my Canadian friends would say, I sure would like to take some of them hunting!

Shard

Just the big BBQ afterwards would suffice!

jossie

A little bit harsh, are you having a bad day or something? I don't think his posts profess to be an authority on hunting. Just an expat excited at embracing part of the Canadian culture.

jossie

Have you tried any game meats? If so what's your favorite?

Jingsamichty

I like game. Duck, pheasant, rabbit, pigeon... venison not so much, but it's alright. I confess to never having eaten lion, but if it was put in front of me, I'd eat it.