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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (1081)	10/9/2004 4:36:08 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 1582

I am a hunter, and I view hunting as honorable participation in the environent. It is no less participation than, say, a cougar killing a deer for food. Or a big fish eating a smaller fish. It's the way God created life. As humans, we have the responsibility to behave on a higher plane than the animals. With hunting, that means killing only what you mean to eat or otherwise put to good use. Some people do not adhere to ethical principles when they hunt and these people, I think, cede their moral claim to the hunt. For myself, killing cleanly without suffering, killing within the law, killing only my own quarry and not someone else's, nor allowing them to kill mine, conserving the meat and other gifts of the killed, and killing within the bounds of fair chase. These are some of the principles that make me proud to be a hunter.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (1081)	10/9/2004 4:38:38 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582

The Prophet Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, "Speak to us of Eating and Drinking." And he said: Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light. But since you must kill to eat, and rob the young of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship, And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in many. When you kill a beast say to him in your heart, "By the same power that slays you, I to am slain; and I too shall be consumed. For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven." And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart, "Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons." And in the autumn, when you gather the grapes of your vineyard for the winepress, say in you heart, "I to am a vineyard, and my fruit shall be gathered for the winepress, And like new wine I shall be kept in eternal vessels." And in winter, when you draw the wine, let there be in your heart a song for each cup; And let there be in the song a remembrance for the autumn days, and for the vineyard, and for the winepress.