Animals deserve compassion too - article in local paper

[Blackfork]

No deer ever gets wasted.

The coyotes have to eat. The buzzards need grub. That said, I never would kill and leave a game animal, nor shoot one without the opportunity and means to deliver a quick lethal blow.

Raccoons and hogs I kill to move them out of the deer area or the garage are cut open so that the buzzards and scavengers can make quick work of them while they are fresh.

Be ethical. Be merciful. Keep in mind that where they go you will go yourself one day.

 

[koja48]

So do people. People are commemorated with a funeral. Animals (other than cherished pets, on occasion) are not afforded such consideration . . . they are wild creatures, whose drivers are: 1) where is the next meal coming from?, 2) who can I breed next?, #) 3) what predator is lurking around me? They are NOT Disneyland characters with 3 fingers, clothes, or human attributes, or any semblance thereof! Ma Nature is a cruel mistress. Providing the option as a food source is vastly preferable to waste. Not all Americans are so fortunate as to be able to afford a vegetarian or any other regular diet, and laws/programs geared to supplement such deficiencies are commendable. I wonder if the esteemed author wears makeup, uses prescription medications, or wears leather? I'm sure she slows down significantly whenever she sees "Deer Crossing" signs . . . or pauses for a moment of silence whenever she "debugs" her windshield in the summer? Perhaps she would be of better service promoting the cause that her office building, or her entire city be razed & the the land be restored to viable wildlife habitat . . . hypocrisy often surfaces when "beliefs" become inconvenient.

 

[imprezagm4]

Hilarious article, thanks for posting. I seriously thought it was satire, initially.

 

[pax]

People gotta eat, same as worms and vultures...

pax

 

[skinnyguy]

I agree that animals deserve compassion. I hope that the deer died quickly and did not suffer. That is how a hunter tries to take his game, quick and painless. That the deer did not go to waste is a good thing. When a human dies for no good reason, that is a loss. When an animal dies for no good reason, that is also a loss.

If a person wishes to be vegetarian/vegan/fruitarian or any other -an they want to be, that is all well and good, but I reserve the right to be carnivorous and eat my meat. I don't tell them if they don't eat meat they'll have bad things happen to them in an afterlife or the end of this one, and they have no right to tell me what to eat either.

 

[EatBugs]

Wow, that article was truely offensive, poorly written, and unproffesional. Who is the editor and why did he/she let that garbage be published. And I'm not saying this just because I hunt and eat meat. That article was just plain ol' offensive.

How is letting the deer rot in a dumpster more compasionate than makeing good use of it? Humans certainly wouldn't allow friends and family to rot in dumpsters. Humans respect their dead with burial and cremation or other rituals. The most respectful and compasionate thing I can think of is to not let the animals death be in vain. I hate seeing animals rotting or being turned into pancakes in the road. Its wasteful and they become just a vile nasty "thing" on the road instead of a living breathing animal. How is putrification more compasionate!?

 

[.45Guy]

A nice doe, shortly before being buried with full honors...

 

[Surat]

We usualy pick one up every year or two back home. . . My mom is quick to dress a deer out that's still fresh and not all smashed up. Momma does a damn fine job on 'em. Back in Minnesota I seems to recall all you have to do is call the DNR. . . of course we are also quick to eat any other perfectly good game that manages to off itself. for years we used to have grouse off themselves against the picture window in the livingroom. You'd hear a great big "BOOOOOOOONK" and there'd be a dead or mostly dead grouse in the flour bed. I remember grandma bringing one in, wringing it's neck & dressing it and us having grouse for dinner later that week. Good eating that.

While that editorial is pretty idiotic, it doesn't hold a patch on the mindless trash in our local rag.

 

[BIGR]

Quote:

As they say, "you are what you eat". It's obvious that she eats only fruits and vegetables. "

I bet her farts don't stink either. So perfect and such a fine example of a human speciman. Where in the heck do these people come from?

 

[kmrcstintn]

I find myself taken aback by this article...I can understand the shock of someone who isn't a hunter or an outdoorsman or a farmer trying to deal with such an event and I also find myself perhaps doing the same thing as the guy who took the deer home; here in PA, a person can claim a roadkill by reporting it to the nearest regional Game Commission office within 24 hours; what gets my goat is that the same expectation could be applied to a legally hunted and killed game animal...I guess we are not suppossed to eat the deer or bear or squirrel or rabbit or duck or goose or hog or turkey or coydog or whatever we hunt; the other factor that seems to elude people is that all meat in the grocery stores had to come from living animals of one sort or another and that instead of an individual slaughtering his own animal, it's done on an assembly line nowadays for the vast masses that eat beef, turkey, chicken, pork, etc...