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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (89799)	11/27/2004 9:54:49 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'd like to see more research done by the person who asked the question. I'm sure there is more data out there. I wish some of those fascinated enough in the whole hunting thing to come here and talk about it for a long time (no judgment about that, it's an interesting topic) would do a little leg work and turn up some statistics, EVEN if they don't look good for hunters, OR even if they do. That would be me. Unfortunately, at the moment, I do not have a lot of time to research this issue. If I can free up the time, I will post the results. This is an issue that is not particularly riveting for me. I grew up in Michigan, which is much like Wisconsin - there are a lot of deer hunters in the population. Now I live in E. Washington, where there is some deer hunting, but nothing like in the midwest. As I posted a day or two ago, I don't hunt. Don't own a rifle, don't own a shotgun. None of my immediate family hunts, and never has. Only my ex-brother-in-law (again, in Michigan) is a deer hunter. Although I'm not a hunter, I'm not judgmental about people who choose to hunt. I don't view deer, pheasant and ducks as higher life forms who have a right not to be hunted. Fact is, until about 100 or so years ago, hunting was one of the primary ways people put protein on the table. Now they go to the local Safeway, Kroger or similar store and buy pre-butchered, prepackaged slabs of protein. Perhaps it would be better if the people who want to be meat eaters (myself included) were required to go out and hunt down and kill and dress their own meat. It would bring the process to ground and make them have a better appreciation of where the meat comes from. Not going to happen though. For millennia the human race subsisted on hunting animals. Only in relatively modern times did people become farmers and begin growing grains and vegetables. IMO, humans will never become 100%, or even predominately, vegetarians. It's a behaviour that is too engrained in our genetic code. It's a fertile topic for discussion though, isn't it? Interesting that this discussion had its start in the violent murders of 6 people in Northern Wisconsin.