You had to bring up the slaughter of the dear wolves.:crying: You make very valid points, but do keep in mind that we humans mess up the planet more than any other species. To maintain the poplulation by hunting…okay, not a bad idea since the animals don’t know NFP, but then we should stop breeding cows, pigs, chickens, etc. for food, since we have this overabundance of another food animal.
He’s just pulling your chain. Go re-read his post and ask yourself if this isn’t a rather juvenile way to taunt people.
It wasn’t obvious, but then I’ve been reading a lot of garbage written by other people today so I’m likely to read things in a more negative light. If that statement wasn’t meant how I read it, I apologize, If it was, my point still stands, but rephrasing may have been a good idea. Mockery has always been how points have been made in my family, and it is a fault I am trying to overcome. Prayers that I succeed in that are appreciated.
Perhaps he is a professional hunting guide. Nothing sick about that. In fact, it is better that people use guides, especially the inexperienced. It prevents them from blundering about and shooting at the wrong things.
And perhaps he is an astronaut in training for a trip to Cygnus Minor, too – that’s about as likely.
Well, you can see **my **level of experience!And perhaps he is an astronaut in training for a trip to Cygnus Minor, too – that’s about as likely.
(Note: Professional hunting guides guide. They don’t shoot – except in rare instances to protect the client, or to prevent the escape of a wounded animal to a slow and agonizing death.)
There is one dirty secret (although the gentleman in question is not involved in this .) Some national parks require game management techniques to reduce the size of the herd (the elk herd in Yellowstone Park is an example). Since it is politically impossible to change the law to allow hunters to go in, harvest the surplus animals, and use the meat and hides, the government hires people to slaughter these animals secretly in the back country and leave their carcasses to rot.Well, you can see **my **level of experience!
I have never been hunting. (okay, rabbit hunting when I was 12 once.) Despite the fact that it is something that I am not interested in, I see no reason to prevent others from doing it. With reasonable restrictions such as season, limits, etc.
I believe this is the same motive for reintroducing predators, like wolves, to certain national parks. Predation is a very important aspect to a stable ecosystem.
You mistake the cause of our disgust. I am disgusted with Michael Vick and others breeding dogs in filthy, miserable conditions and training them to fight to the death for someone’s “enjoyment.”
So we’ve been eating meat a long time.
Elk sirloin. Yum!
“…tasty, tasty murder.”So we’ve been eating meat a long time.
Elk sirloin. Yum!
“…tasty, tasty murder.”
I better buy a raffle ticket, in case Fr. Lappe’s bow/arrow is aimed in the right direction.
Psalms 91:5
One important distiction is Vick bread his animales to fight each other and killed his animals because they where poor fighers. To kill animales in the wild or raised domesticly for food is a different matter. While killing the animale is the same end, the intention of the act is different, and that’s the distinction.
I didn’t know the Church taught that.
It’s not a matter of Church teaching, it’s in the Bible.
I’m not condemning eating meat or hunting, in a manner of speaking. For money or enjoyment, yes, I myself am opposed (as far as hunting goes) and raising animals for food…I’m opposed to the horrid conditions they’re made to live in and the manner in which they’re killed. It’s very inhumane…
PETA gets condemned a lot because they fight for animals and not humans…well, the organization is for animals, what’s the problem? Nobody condemns Priests for Life because their work doesn’t focus on animals and the planet, which needs a lot of attention. PETA tends to overdo things at times, I’m not denying that, but they do make good points that shouldn’t be overlooked because they’re not focusing on other issues. It is an animal organization for the *humane treatment of animals *(which every Christian should support ).
Could it be because PETA representatives pick up animals to “protect,” then kill them and throw them in dumpsters?
