Comments arminius has made

  • The Hunting Issue

    I found it a litttle odd that there was no mention of wild protein consumption via hunting.  I do in fact hunt whitetail deer for several reasons.  

    1. Kilocalories - it requires much fewer KC worldwide for me to drive my paid-for vehicle to the public woods up here, hunt and stalk and shoot a deer, drag it out w/o the use of any type of mechanization, load it and haul it home and do all the processing myself.  Costs about 20 hrs of my time once it was home.  

    2. Ancestry - We all descend from people who for tens of thousands of years had to hunt and/or gather for their nutrition and lives.  Then 5-6 thousand years ago the earliest forms of agriculture began, as you know.  I, for one, pay attention to whre I am coming from.

    3. Quantity - There are simply way too many deer in our environment at the moment.  Like some other species (raccoons, coyotes, ragweed, and too-many invasive species), they are a weed.  But, they are wonderfully adapted to their environment which then provides an adequately skilled woodsman a fair quarry.  I would truly rather hunt and eat that red meat rather than hit one or pay for a lb. of fatty beef raised in a factory farm or feedlot.  They taste like.., well, they taste bad.

    Yes, venison does taste better than soy.  The energy required of our planet to get the venison on my plate barely registers in comparison to the mega machinery and energy involved in getting so many other types of foods.  The oil required (part of the KC total) to ship and haul the food is unsound environmentally and adds to ExxonMobils' billion$ in annual profits.  

    Lastly, you wouldn't think that a hunter would see their prey as 'cute' but Bambi IS a clever, cunning, gorgeous animal that will challenge and benefit everyone who pursues such a beautiful American treasure as this.  And no, I am NOT a member of the NRA, just a sportsman liberal who prefers cotton and wool to gore-tex.  On Umbra on soy vs. meat posted 4 years, 1 month ago 27 Responses