There will always be
Some asshole who mouths off whenever anyone shoots an animal. Melissa Bachman is taking a bunch of heat all over the place, predominatnly from people who are embarrassed that her testicles are bigger than theirs. Well, Ms Bachman, Good on you. Never apologise and fuck them.
The idiots that do this sort of jaw flapping come in two varieties: people who are all butthurt because she killed an animal, who then go right to McDonalds afterwards, and vegan fuckmonkeys who are “Above” all this shit.
Look, you morons, you kill shit to eat every day. There is only one naturally occurring food on earth that doesn’t require that something die so you can eat. When you mark yourself morally superior because you don’t kill to eat, tell me with absolute certainlty that the plants you eat don’t have any awareness. Not horribly long ago the same thing was said about- well, damned near anything. Oaks live hundreds of years, cedars thousands. There are trees on this planet that were old when Jesus walked the planet. Don’t tell me an organism can live to that age and not dance some sort of dance, no matter if it’s too slow for us to see.
Life is life. Just because something has a face doesn’t make it’s death less death than if it is confined to cells.
Oh, you only eat fruit and seeds? Ah, that’s better. You are murdering the plants young and eating the lure they produce to scatter it’s seeds.
Things eat other things. You don’t get a choice in the matter. Shut up and pass the A-1.
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Amen.
Just for curiosity, what is the food that need not be killed? Only thing I can come up with is rocks and they are not very tasty even with A1.
Honey.
Yep. Although honey is made from pollen which is kind of like harvesting sperm. It is not alive on its own but will create life when joined.
But Honey is one source where something need not die to create it.
And I do loves me some Honey. I suppose Milk might also fall into this area which could be why we find everyone looking for the land of Milk and Honey.
I need to rethink that whole saying now. Damn, I did not want to think this morning.
Honey Is nectar.the bees also collect pollen.
That’s right…bees use the nectar to make the honey, and secondarily carry the pollen that sticks to them in the process from one flower to another.
Now you have me wondering what sauces would be good on Lion.
Honey is also the only food which will not spoil.
Not sure on African Lion but a good barbecue sauce is very tasty on Mountain Lion.
I’m amused by the hippies complaining that “Lions are endangered and she KILLED ONE!!”
Who evidently aren’t aware that hunting is exactly what pays for African game conservation.
Want elephants to survive demand for ivory?
Farm them.
Want lions to survive being both a dangerous predator and one of the classic challenging hunting targets?
Charge people to hunt them and use the money to protect the rest.
Demanding that poor foreigners on another continent just give up vast areas of land and/or live with lions running around, and give up all that money Just So You Can Feel Good About Preserving The Precious Aminals…?
Not going to work.
Dang, I thought salt would be the one food stuff that does not require something to either die, or have its reproductive-ness diverted from reproduction, to feeding us. Salt as a mineral is just “there,” to be scraped or licked, or already dissolved, to be available. It neither lives, dies, nor reproduces.
Salt is a seasoning. Honey is a food.
I may take some heat from this, but, I saw the picture and an article earlier today and it got me to wondering. Did she trek through the tall grass, underbrush and bush for an hour or two under the hot glaring sun with sweat beads dripping down her forehead, with the silver necklace, metal watch, and lovely ring chafing her skin? Did she have to sit in wait for an hour or two in a hunting stand, with the seat of her pants dampened by sweat, pending arrival of the stealthy and elusive animal? Or… did she have her driver transport her in a jeep or van through the game preserve for three or four hours to the places where the lions were known to seek shelter in the hot mid-day sun, and upon reaching sixty yards, take aim from the safety of her vehicle? (No, she must have exited the vehicle as she reported that she stalked him to sixty yards.)
I do not know the full story, but it would be sad if wealth and privilege have allowed a glorified poaching trip to become “the huntâ€.
(And yes, I realize that the picture is a photo-op late in the afternoon, judging from the position of the sun and shadows, but would she have had time to wipe down, clean up, and put jewelry on?)
“but would she have had time to wipe down, clean up, and put jewelry on?”
She had time to write a novel, if she desired. The lion was pretty much gonna stay dead.
All hunting is like that.I know people who walk out into the wild and come back in ten minutes with a whitetail. I also know people who have spent tall dollars on “Paid” hunts and came back skunked. the myth of “Farm” hunting is just that, for the most part. I hope to go out west next fall to hunt bison; the bison are on a farm. The farm is 6000 acres. Without the owners guiding me I’ll be lucky to see one, let alone shoot one.
No, I don’t know all the particulars, but rest assured, if you’re shooting a charging lion in the wild or one that you drove up to in a land rover, you still have to change your shorts afterward.
The “Wealth and priveledge” thing has been going on forever. This seems to be more about the spectacle than anythying else, and pictures of pretty girls on wild animals with big guns sells magazine subscriptions.
Wealth and privilege can conspire to give you a chance. But it is that. I have gone out to a spot and shot a white tail buck within 5 minutes of hitting the spot. I have also sat out side in freezing rain waiting to see one walk in range.
Even paid hunts can come back empty. The guides do there level best to ensure that does not happen as most people can not drop a couple grand on an empty bag.
If shot a once in a life time animal, I would look like I just stepped from a Cabela’s catalog before the picture was taken.
The critter does not know it on a farm. If indeed this was a farm hunt.
The left screeches because they do not want to do something like this, therefore you should not be allowed to do it.
By that right the left should not be allowed to do the things I do not want to do either. But no, according to their rules they can tell me what to do, but I cannot tell them anything.
Bunch of hypocrites.
Capstick wrote of the ‘no hunting’ idiocy. Specifically on leopard. When sport hunting is allowed, a farmer can make enough from leasing land to a safari company to make it worth having leopard eat some of his stock. Make it illegal to hunt them, or bring the hide back, and they no longer have that value, and the farmers go back to trapping and poisoning them so they won’t wipe out his stock.
But try explaining that to the birdwatchers…