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Just a thought.. the Big Mac you just had for lunch ... the one made from beef treated with ammonia because the steer it came from was so unsanitary because it lived a mistreated life in a cement box from birth right up until the fork lift pushed it into the throat cutting machine ... that's ok?

Sight unseen unless shit appears on facebook (of all places) then it's a travesty. Meanwhile slaughterhouses and chicken farms do some awfully nasty shit to the animals that they slaughter before the food ends up in your grocery store and because it's not some facebook outrage, it must be ok.

Different times indeed.

jiminphilly wrote:Just a thought.. the Big Mac you just had for lunch ... the one made from beef treated with ammonia because the steer it came from was so unsanitary because it lived a mistreated life in a cement box from birth right up until the fork lift pushed it into the throat cutting machine ... that's ok?

Sight unseen unless shit appears on facebook (of all places) then it's a travesty. Meanwhile slaughterhouses and chicken farms do some awfully nasty shit to the animals that they slaughter before the food ends up in your grocery store and because it's not some facebook outrage, it must be ok.

Different times indeed.

I go to a regional big box store for staples, but for meat it's the little corner grocery where I know the butcher and I know that what I'm buying is sourced locally and responsibly. It's not that complicated.

Goober McTuber wrote:

smackaholic wrote:Fukking and killing stuff is pretty much what we are programmed to do.

Not necessarily in that order.

So you're a necrophiliac...thanks for sharing.

Diego in Seattle wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

smackaholic wrote:Fukking and killing stuff is pretty much what we are programmed to do.

Not necessarily in that order.

So you're a necrophiliac...thanks for sharing.

Roach wrote:

Looks like mormons going in for the kill.


Yet, with further investigation... the kill, looks a bit too old.


Not enough women and children being assaulted.

Diego in Seattle wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

smackaholic wrote:Fukking and killing stuff is pretty much what we are programmed to do.

Not necessarily in that order.

So you're a necrophiliac...thanks for sharing.

Not me. Teddy Roosevelt. Try to keep up, Corky.

Mounting, like taxidermy. TR was a taxidermist from an early age. The birds thought it was creepy.

BSmack wrote:Mounting, like taxidermy.

Wow. Really?

Goober McTuber wrote:

BSmack wrote:Mounting, like taxidermy.

Wow. Really?

Depends on whether you kill it before you mount it.

what ^^^^ said.

rifle technology was pretty damned advanced by the late 1800s. bolt or lever action rifles of today are not much different. And someone who was experienced with a good rifle with iron sites could take out large game just as easily as some dude with a modern day scope. We aren't talking about sniping dudes from a half mile away.

smackaholic wrote:bolt or lever action rifles of today are not much different.

The rifles of today, are slightly more advanced. The nitrocellulose that powers the ammunition is considerably more advanced. Muzzle velocity today is quite a bit higher, although the early nitrocellulose-powered ammo was plenty hot enough to get the job done, amd were a massive improvement over the gunpowder-fueled rifles that preceded them.

88 wrote:Strangely, they don't blink as billions of fish are hauled out of the oceans, gutted and sold for food or fertilizer.

You're right...we need to stop their suffering!

what would be really interesting is if we could teach animals to shoot back.....I wonder how many people would go hunting for giraffes if they knew the giraffes were packing .308 Winchesters with high powered scopes and they could shoot them.....I'm guessing the number of big game hunters would dwindle significantly.....killing a giraffe I'd imagine is about as difficult as killing a cow.....

but I admire Sabrina for putting up the old "do you know how dangerous giraffes are" argument....sure, if you're within 20 feet of them, they're extremely dangerous......unfortunately, I'm guessing the closest Sabrina ever got to a giraffe was 50 to 75 yards.....not much of a fight when you're out of reach and shooting at them with a compound bow with broadhead tips.....worse than that, seldom does the first shot from a bow kill an animal the size of a giraffe, just severely wounds them.....then you have to track them until they've lost so much blood they collapse, then the hunter puts themselves into position for the kill shot.....not much of a "sport" but hey, whatever floats your boat......but the penultimate stupidity on her part was to compare killing giraffes to culling an over populated species like white tail deer.....

Felix wrote:penultimate

I do not think that means what you think it means.

Dinsdale wrote:

Felix wrote:penultimate

I do not think that means what you think it means.

I'm sure there'll be another stupidity coming along eventually.

Felix wrote:...but the penultimate {sic} stupidity on her part was to compare killing giraffes to culling an over populated species like white tail deer.....

Oh? Why is that?