It has come to my attention that a post made the other day by me has been
misinterpreted....
First, I would like to say that if anyone was offended,
I'm truly sorry.
I was weighing in on the subject of hunting, guns, etc.
I used to go hunting out of pure need to provide meals.
I have not hunted for at least 35 years.
I do not even own a firearm.
Don't get me wrong; I love shooting weapons, especially for the skill challenge.
However, I prefer to shoot at paper targets.
When others wish to discuss hunting and such,
I don't mind, I just scroll on by.
I am a meat-eater, but I disapprove of modern processing:
7. Cruelty to Animals
Chemicals, cost cutting and outsourcing labor take a toll on the birds whose lives and deaths are increasingly inhumane. Chickens were once slaughtered at 14 weeks when they weighed about two pounds but by 2001, they were being slaughtered at seven weeks when they weighed between four and six pounds Today they are even bigger and their lives shorter. In fact, chickens are now grown so quickly, if humans grew as fast, we’d weigh 349 pounds by our second birthday. As a result, chickens have constant bone disease, live in chronic pain and perish from eerie, factory-farm related diseases.
“Good birds on their sides or breasts, scattered in a random fashion in the pen also usually are considered to be dead from flip-over,” says Poultry News. “Diagnosis is supported by the full GI tract (particularly the full intestine); the large, pale liver; the large, normal bursa; the contracted ventricles and dilated, blood-filled atria; the lung congestion and edema; and the lack of pathological lesions.”
Assembly lines move so fast in today’s chicken slaughterhouses, poultry workers, the government and even the chicken industry admit that the birds break their own bones in struggling to escape the uncaring death that the pursuit of cheap meat forces on them.
(from: 7 horrifying truths about your chicken dinner - Salon.com)
Folks who hunt for their personal sustenance, I've found, are very humane in their practice
and do not "thrill kill."
Modern processing plants are evil and are only concerned with profits.
I believe that I'd rather eat meat harvested by our hunting Friends
than that which is processed by "factories."
Without getting political,
I strongly support the Second Amendment,
but, for the intent of the Founding Fathers: To prevent invaders both foreign and domestic.
The use of firearms at the time of the drafting of the Constitution was universal
for providing meat for the table
and was not even part of the considerations.
That's my opinion, which I have volunteered to protect as the First Amendment,
by joining the Army.
Once again,
I'm sorry if anyone has been offended.
My Best,
Scott
