Originally posted by Miss MacPhisto:
Well first of all, it is not absolutely vital for most people to eat meat. Do your own health a favor and avoid eating parts of corpses,wild and domestic.
Sorry. Your argument falls apart right here. While most nutrients gained from animal products can be also found in plants, there is one essential nutrient found exclusively in animals: vitamin B12. This vitamin is highly essential for nerve function, amongst other things.
Ted Nugent is an ass. Note how ugly he is. See what happens when you eat possum fritters all day?
The last two superficial sentences aside, he is an ass. However, he is not representative of all meateaters. It would be like representing all vegetarians with rabid, uptight, feminist butch lesbians (apologies to potential lesbians reading this).
That said, if you absolutely must eat meat, you can stick with the conventional kinds. No need for deer meat. Although i do agree that generally speaking, the deer suffer far less by being shot then the domestic stock do when they are slaughtered.Deer dont know until the last seconds whats in store for them, and provided the hunter is a good shot, it is a hell of a lot less painful than slaughter. But its still cruel.
And who defines "conventional"? Deer may look cute and cuddly, but they are an overpopulated nuisance in much of the country, and it's not like it's free range to kill deer all year long. There is a specific legislated season for deer hunting, along with further restrictions.
Anyone who hunts for sport is an asshole, a fool, a loser, and a murderer. Its sick. You wanna kill something? Then join the military or a police force and go out and hunt and kill the evil that inhabit the earth. But most hunters never would, because they are COWARDS and too chicken(no pun intended) to ever hunt something that can shoot back.
Well, I really don't know what you're defining as "sport," but that's an incredibly stereotypical generalization of hunters. The few I do know legally hunt and deep freeze the meat for human consumption. If you think that all hunters are Ted Nugent-like militia men, get that out of your head, because it's not representative again.
I must say that I'm mostly disappointed with the contents of this post, but, hey, you are surely entitled to your opinion, and I'm not gonna hold it against you.
And, man, who would have thought I'd be fighting on this side of the argument?
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
