Posted on 08/08/2024 8:18:37 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted that he had been picking up roadkill meat his “whole life” and that he had a “freezer full of it” at home in a revelation that comes just days after his bizarre Central Park bear cub dump bombshell.
On Sunday RFK Jr. admitted he was responsible for leaving a dead bear cub in New York ten years ago after he picked up the animal he said a woman hit with her van. The presidential candidate published a video online talking to actress Roseanne Barr on Sunday, trying to get ahead of a New Yorker article. At the time, the incident was a national story in the press – first published by his own relative in the New York Times.
On Wednesday the independent presidential candidate for the 2024 election was defending his New York residency in court on Wednesday when he responded to journalists outside who were more interested in asking about his habit of picking up roadkill. RFK Jr. prompted laughter from reporters, speaking outside the Albany courthouse, said: “I’ve been picking up roadkill my whole life. I have a freezer full of it.”.
However, according to the Associated Press, his campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear later clarified that Kennedy was serious, noting that he used the roadkill to feed his birds.
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THAT BELONGS ON AMERICA’S FUNNIEST VIDEOS.
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I grew up on a farm. You treat animals well, but still butcher them. It’s reality.
Where I live is all suburbs with small, secluded wooded areas that are filled with deer. I've even got pictures on my trail camera of a couple deer eating the bird seed from my bird feeder right off my back deck.
Because they're all suburbs here in S.E. Michigan, they can't be hunted. The only means of controlling them is hitting them with your car. Works every time.
You got one about skunks? I've got two adults I've spotted eating under my back yard bird feeder and a juvenile that was on my back deck this morning eating the food I set out for the feral cats.
Absolutely. I am not one of those idiots that thinks a steak is birthed in a styrofoam tray and covered with cellophane.
One of my favorite movies is “Temple Grandin”, a remarkable story about an autistic woman back in the Seventies and Eighties who revolutionized the slaughter industry because she had the gift of being able to discern what disturbed them, and developed a theory for a slaughterhouse that was as humane as possible for them (by keeping them calm as they were being processed for slaughter)
It was a remarkable story, and I think the quote from that movie that just stuck out at me was, when she was asked why her design should be used because it cost more to build, she said “Nature is cruel. We don’t have to be.”
(They found out later that even though it cost more up front, in the end, they saved money because they didn’t need as many people to force the steers through the baths, ramps, and into the kill room, and also, fewer animals died leading up to the kill (apparently they could drown in the dip) and the meat was better quality when the animal was slaughtered.)
I really liked that quote. We can butcher them and eat them, but we can minimize their suffering when we can. You know that...you grew up on a farm.
There is a GREAT lunch spot in N Las Vegas called the Road Kill Cafe. It is worth the stop. Great BBQ, incredible beans and yummy cornbread. Look it up!
See the latest cartoon by Michael Ramirez (on GoComics.com), about RFK Jr. and the bear cub carcass.
I was listening to a podcast of two yankee women who had just moved to the East Tennessee mountains in the Gatlinburg area and saw a deer get hit. They were aghast at the entire incident but stopped to check on the driver. The state trooper pulled up and saw the deer down and suffering, he cleared everyone back and put a round in the head causing the two yankees to about throw up according to them.
Then the trooper asks the guy who hit it if he wants it, sure and they throw it into the bed of his pickup, moves the vehicles to the side of the road and finishes up his paperwork. The two yankees gals still short circuited over the entire event said they just drove home in silent horror.
Is that in NH? If so, I’ve eaten there.
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