Hunting & Fishing Vegan vs. Meat Eater

[blksno]

I get into this debate quite often, and this is one of the most intelligent, well thought out responses I've seen.

I actually respect the vegan, MUCH more than the vegetarian...but that's for a different day.

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[coldboremiracle]

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I like that, very well put, honest and to the point.

 

[AznDragon533]

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Vegans live around 2 years longer, not worth it at all..

 

[Cuga]

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In general:
Life means extracting chemical compounds from your enviroment for their chemical energy or as building material to procreate.
Animals are, however cute and imposing they may be, a viable source for some of these compounds and a tasty source too.
Why should one discriminate against this source?
Plants are living beings too.
Eating only plants because they don't look cute or are strange to us because of their extreme biological differentness seems pretty hypocritical to me, especially if you believe that all life is equal.

Hunting:
Taking a life is an awe-inspiring experience, it makes you understand where the meat your eating comes from and what it's worth. You can't understand this when you are buying meat in the supermarket right next to toilet paper.
Also if you're eating game, the meat does not come out of some meat factory where the animals were incarcerated and agonized before being butchered.
I understand the necessity of industrial meat production, but can't like it.
A clean kill far out of civilization, being part of nature, not an alien invader just observing it, makes you appreciate life and nature much more than talking about how sacred life is to you.

I think the distance to nature the urban lifestyle produces, not only geographicly but in socialisation, alienates many people to the mindset that they are part of nature.
They observe it on tv or when vacating as something that differs from their world, something they arent part of and perceive it simultaneously as something beautiful that has to be preserved like a park has to be managed and maintained.
Killing a part of this beauty is like vandalism, especially a part that seems cute and innocent, is not right and goes against the principles one was taught as a child.
But actually death is an integral part of life and nature, it makes accesible what is needed to create and prolong life and will be given by the consuming being when it ends itself.

Well, I hope it's understandable what I want to express and not too cheesy.

ps: orthography

 

[Wes3377]

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Awesome respone. Now if we can take Ted Nugents microphone and give it to that guy...

 

[shamrockcattleco]

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Very well presented.

 

[weber61]

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very well thought out response and respectfull of gentleman asking the question. he just shot up my respectable meter.

 

[gbernardski]

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Very nicely put!
I've gotten into similar conversations from people who don't believe in hunting or eating Elk or deer, but do eat meat. For either the taste of the animal or the killing of it. An example was two years ago I had my wife's work friends over for a barbeque while eating the burgers off the grill we started talking about a ladies husband and how he was bow hunting for elk. I told her that was great and hopefully they would have some elk to eat that year. She told me she would never eat elk, never!! I then was happy to tell her the Burger she had just eaten was an elk burger

 

[skinney_7]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wes126</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Awesome respone. Now if we can take Ted Nugents microphone and give it to that guy... </div></div>
definitely NOT... this guy caters to the vegan, Nugent will not, there is no reason a hunter should have to explain himself or herself for the action or justification of hunting and eating meat PERIOD, its MY way of life, THEY want to regulate us and impose restrictions on what we do and how we live, do you see US hunters trying to impose our ways on salad eaters, how many anti vegan movements do you see... you be damn glad we got Nugent on our side... we need more like him.