Quite right - electric fence supplies are high voltage, low current. They bite, but won't kill. Dogs, horses and people hate them, cows don't care much. I don't know about deer.
Drove from NJ to OH today via I-78 and I-80. Saw a guy on I-78 east of Allentown who had 3 deer in the back of his F-150. They appeared to be dead. At the Sheetz in Dubois (that's DooBwhah for you guys in the Dordogne) everyone, and I mean EVERYONE was in hunting gear. The great Keystone state shuts down for the first couple days of hunting season.
LOL yeah that might be it!
You can tell the hunting leases from the cattle ranches around here because the latter have cedar posts with 3 or 4 runs of barbed wire and the former have 8-12 foot high wire fencing on T posts. I don't think deer care much about electric fences; he's going over it or turning around.
You can tell the hunting leases from the cattle ranches around here because the latter have cedar posts with 3 or 4 runs of barbed wire and the former have 8-12 foot high wire fencing on T posts. I don't think deer care much about electric fences; he's going over it or turning around.
Envious of people who take pleasure out of blasting the crap out of largely unaware ,defenseless animals from a safe distance and claiming that it is sport? How so exactly?
At least the things I hit are not conscious, eg, golf and tennis balls. Oh yes, they don't bleed and their internal organs are not blown to bits when a high velocity projectile is launched at them by a "sportsman". Well, at least it illustrates something that should be self-evident; humans' best and most practiced "skill" is self-deception.
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I'm going to assume you're both vegetarians then? 'cause at least the animals hunters take are able to live a natural life before they're taken. Food animals endure a LOT LOT LOT more pain before they're slaughtered. Deer overpopulation is a problem and a darned good reason to let people hunt.
Well then, you'd be wrong, on two counts. One, that I am a vegetarian and Two, that I would fall for the Strawman logical fallacy. I do eat poultry, seafood and kangaroo but that isn't the argument.
Killing animals with a gun and calling it "sport" is a farce (self deception gets another look in). Killing animals humanely and for good reason ethically isn't an issue. There may be an overpopulation of deer but isn't that because humans have killed their natural predator/s?
Killing animals with a gun and calling it "sport" is a farce (self deception gets another look in). Killing animals humanely and for good reason ethically isn't an issue. There may be an overpopulation of deer but isn't that because humans have killed their natural predator/s?
Not a fair match, the pig is stronger and has sharp tusks. You gotta give a fellow a fighting chance. Are the antelope and the lion evenly matched?
FYI, I am a pescavore, just fish and veggies for me. You want find me leaping out of trees to kill a wild boar, nor eating it afterwards.
Fishing, maybe. Massacring artichokes, for sure!
It still doesn't make it a "sport" no matter how much you want to dress it up. Besides, is there a "pride" in the ability to kill something for your pleasure? I would call it perverted.
No, but they are "fighting", if you can call it that, with their evolutionary tools.
You septics have a funny collective spin on things.
If you had a tusk up your knackers they may swell up quite a bit yes.
Like most people killing animals purely for sport has always turned my stomach. That said (taking personal revulsion out of the equation) I do have a tad more respect for someone who can take a dangerous wild animal on, armed only with a knife. Certainly they are not likely to be taking out a disproportionate amount of the wildlife, unlike many hunters with rifles.
No point being too precious as a life long meat eater.
And the human is smarter (I'll grant some exceptions in Hollywood and Congress), has opposable thumbs, and long flexible arms. So back to fair.
Given that humans have evolved specifically to use weapons, and have bodies optimized for living within human society, denying us weapons is a dishonest way to make the comparisons.
I don't promote killing just for "sport", but if you eat it, I feel hunting is a much more humane behavior than is buying meat at the market.
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