12/05/10: Palin shoots a Caribou

Not had Caribou we dont have them over here LOL but have had Rabbit and Dog oh and horse, snake and Ostritch LOL and in my experience most people hunt to eat what they kill with a very small minority doing it for fun

 

Well..quite the opposite over here. Very few individuals do it (unless you include the legal definition of a corporation as a person) due to economics or hunger. Most all do it for the joy of killing. Makes the men feel like men and the rednecks being able to vent on something alive for having lost the war, and keeps Walmart gun sales up.

 

I don't hunt myself Tom but you are totally wrong.

The vast majority of hunters in the U.S. do it to put meat in the freezer.

I DO fish. I have had one fish mounted in my life. The rest have been released or eaten.

 

I also disagree with Tom. Most of my family has been into hunting for as long as I can remember and I can't think of one of them that kills game for the "fun" of shooting something. Perhaps you've never heard of buck fever.

I don't hunt much anymore but that is because I prefer hiking, climbing, and camping. Hunting is too much work and equipment to be fun anymore. Hunters are far more responsible that the nuts that own guns for "protection". Those people ARE just jonesing to shoot something in the neighborhood. LOL!

 

I don't hunt but a lot of people I know do. And they eat what they kill. I do fish and I eat what I catch...or throw it back if it isn't big enough or not a tasty species, etc.

 

I'm not a hunter but I love shooting my guns and keep a couple for protection. We have people we allow to hunt on our land and they sure eat what they kill. Why just yesterday we were feasting on deer & turkey.

 

As a mostly " fisherman", I practise catch and release, keeping only what I care to eat. I prefer to just take pics of may catches and then put them back.

There are no mounted fish in my place, but there is some in the freezer. The only fish I would mount would be a 10+ pound bass, or a 25" + Walleye...otgher than that, they're food

 

Bull**it. They enjoy the kill. It gives them a hardy to kill. It has very little to do with a lack of food or money to buy food. It's all about blasting something living to feed the warped egos.

 

I never said they didn't eat what they kill and just because they do doesn't mean they don't enjoy the kill. Food is hardly an issue in todays' corporate world. Enjoying killing is what it's all about for the majority of critter blasters. Be honest.

 

I think hunters should go for a real challenge and hunt each other. Hunting is a sickness, allowed because society is sick. So what critters do you not approve of blasting the heads off of? There has to be an acceptable and unacceptable list. I guess you decide what's ok to kill and what isn't. Puppies ok for fun or no? If not, then what animal/living creature is ok to kill for jollies? Perhaps level of intelligence should dictate what can be playfully killed? So...I ask...what animals are ok to beat your chest like Tarzan over after depriving it of its life for your personal enjoyment and which are not?

 

Not arguing that point at all. Need is one thing. Killing for sport is something else.

 

Don't question...just take? Glad you are able to justify things so easily. I'm sure the world's a better place for it.

 

Plus you saved a poor cow by decreasing demand for a day or two and were able to eat something without all the modern gunk that the commercial meat industry puts in our food.

It's hard to find caribou and deer (or crappie or bluegill, or even good catfish for that matter) easily at the store around here. And, I know some of my wife's relatives use what they hunt (including deer and squirrel and also catfish they catch on trot lines) to supplement their family's food for the year.

Not to mention that most all of what they kill and eat probably has a whole lot less hormones, chemicals, and other unnatural tidbits in it than the meat you can buy at the store.

 

Hunters are bigger targets though..more of a challenge. Plus you could take their already empty heads and inflate them with helium...use them as floating markers showing where the stupid people live. I'm surprised corporate interests haven't already found a way to sponsor this and enhance their portfolios. Hell...there's a whole untapped business there. Cook their fat bloated bodies for fuel, produce a new line of dog food, and donate their pickup trucks, battle clothes and guns to to Afghanistan to help fight the war on terror. Have the hunters blast each other, the winners continue on for bonus money, and the losers supply organs for the needy. Plus, collectively, the IQ of the nation slowly increases. Win, win, win.., a corporate
explosion of more mega wealth, more champagne and more portfolio enhancements for all the "ground level" investors! Capitalism! Profit! Immoral behavior! All the pluses that come with regular corporate crime but with half the hassle!

 

You realize of course that not all corporations are bad. I've worked for some very socially conscious organizations. I acknowledge that there are industries that know no bounds but most are just trying to make a living best they can. You would help your case a lot more if you'd point out examples of corporations that do harm.

 

Just take a deep breath and think of every caribou that is killed as sticking it to those capitalist, big industry, rich, meat corporations and you will be ok.

 

Well...I've not had that pleasure of working for corporations that are socially conscious. The ones I've worked for are all about the big buck at the expense of anything or anyone, even their own employees. I'm glad you have experienced differently. I'm sure though that my experiences with corporations is much more the rule rather than the exception. Consider yourself fortunate.