Shard

I have tried game in the distant past, but found I disliked new meats. In an ideal world, I think we should reduce meat consumption in both range and quantity, at least until lab-grown meat becomes commonplace. It's my personal view, and I completely understand that many others are perfectly happy with farmed or hunted animal meat.

Siouxie

How was my comment harsh? It was a genuine comment and question. I would ask you the same question, if you would care to answer it.

It's not part of the culture for the majority of Canadians! Just for the record, I am not anti-hunting, I am anti-sport hunting; if you live in Nunavut or somewhere similar and it's your sole resource for food then I don't have a problem with it.

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

jossie

There's a game banquet here every year and you get to try everything and almost everyone I spoke to at the banquet liked the mountain lion meat the best. Not what you would expect! We get quite a few grouse out here but I've never had pigeon - what's it like?

MikeUK

Interesting..... I always wanted to hunt a hunter.... sort of an even playing field

I've had to settle for paint balls in the past, or belt tags..

I'm sure live amunition would really raise the adrenaline levels

jossie

That's a strange fetish you have there?

caretaker

And what sounds like science-fiction now may be reality in x number of generations. Sigh. Oh, how I miss nostalgia.

MikeUK

Not realy... I like to pick on those that pick on the weak

Kind'a allows you to take off the kid gloves and indugle

Flogger

Sound reasonable, as long as he chucks the head away and eats some of the rest of the meat. Tastes like pork, only different apparently. Could almost be lion.

caretaker

As I recall, in the Bomba The Jungle Boy book when he was on the run and killed the leopard (or whatever cat), he couldn't eat it, and deemed it of no nutritiuinal value. Until googling cougar recipes I didn't know people ate them.

CKMaddAll

I eat meat, I like eating meat, and I think that it is important to know where meat comes from. It seems strange to me that you are willing to voice your opinion so openly about my hunting exploits (so far one duck hunt), basically branding me as some sick killer, but not agreeing that wild game often lives a better life than farmed animals...

jossie

Let me guess, you are a hero, sent to save all the animals. Easy to say sat behind a keyboard with an online persona.

caretaker

When my great-uncle Roman was 14 in 1931 he was a cook in a lumber camp in Siberia and his job included finding the food to cook. He had a bad patch when he could find no meat for several weeks, then one day he shot a fox. He made a stew with whateverd they had and the meat from the fox, and all the crew ate it up heartily. When they asked what it was and he said it was a fox they challenged him. He opened the door to his room beside the dining hall and showed the fur stretched out on the wall and some of the men wwere sick to their stomachs. That is only the begining to Great-Uncle Roman's story.

Siouxie

Whilst understanding that people have different opinions and that this subject is likely to have some reactive responses, could I just remind everyone of site rule 1 please?


1. Personal Attacks
BritishExpats.com is an interactive site, and everyone who participates is "in it together", please treat others the way you wish to be treated. Personal attacks will not be tolerated. Challenge others' points of view and opinions, but do so respectfully and thoughtfully ... without insult or personal attack.

Keep it friendly... thanks.

cjones

Where did I say that?... I just noted that you seem to consider that hunting for the table is somehow more defensible that just shooting stuff for a bit of a laugh or to hang bits of it on the wall. Whereas to the animal concerned, your moral code is of no consequence what so ever.

The hunters on these threads seem to be quite a touchy bunch on the whole, possibly not the kind of folks to be walking around with loaded weapons?

dbd33

I don't see how this can be true. Farmed animals, especially chickens, are often treated badly but some are not; the neighbour's cows, for example, wander among the trees, treking in only to be fed. They're protected from predators and have no worries until they're hauled off to a slaughterhouse configured specifically to save them from distress. On the other hand, this evening we came across two deer on the road; they're constant at risk from cars, coyotes and hunters, if they're not running in fear they're foraging for food, the supply of which is limited and unreliable.

Unless we anthropomorphise philosophical predalictions into the animals "Live Free or Die", I think we're bound to conclude that the animals of the kindly farmer have the best life.