Posted on 10/11/2013 6:25:01 AM PDT by chessplayer
My, don't they look proud. But after shooting this rare albino moose near Belle Cote in Nova Scotia last week — and posting the pics to social media — the trio has sparked considerable outrage, particularly among the region's Mi'kmaq indigenous community.
These guys breached a kind of unwritten code of conduct that has also upset many in the hunting community.
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You appear to be working from a premise that if something is legal, then it cannot be wrong. I believe a critical examination will reveal that premise to be demonstrably flawed, and consequently the arguments and conclusions based on it suspect.
I believe what those that are calling out that it was legal are actually saying is that the legality of their actions is not debatable. They are just waiting for moral objections that actually hold water.
Given how big a survival disadvantage albinism is for a large herbivore in the wild, how are the PETA apostles here going to concoct a moral objection that holds water?
These people are exhibiting a knee-jerk reaction that is intellectually indefensible. Hence the tortuous constructs being thrown out.
I’ve had moose meat before. Better than venison IMO. Then again, I don’t like venison. Since I don’t like venison, I don’t hunt deer.
Kinda funny like that. I don’t approve of trophy hunting, but as previously stated... If you are hunting to fill your freezer, all I ask is that you don’t take more than you need and use everything you can.
A good, ethical hunter wants to ensure that there are more prey animals to eat next hunting season.
These are not albino moose.
The Ontario Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997, prohibits the hunting of white-coloured (over 50% white) moose in Wildlife Management Units 30 and 31, an area near Timmins, Chapleau and Foleyet Ontario.
Yeah... Extinct like other tasty animals. Like chicken, pigs, and cows...
Oh... wait.
Moose is a rare species?
If so, you are cooking it wrong.
These people are exhibiting a knee-jerk reaction that is intellectually indefensible. Hence the tortuous constructs being thrown out.
Moose is a rare species?
If so, you are cooking it wrong.
OK.
I always make sure my wild game is thoroughly cooked. Not over cooked, just completely cooked...
The moose meat I had was essentially a braised shoulder steak.
Yum.
Polar bears don’t eat penguins.
Oh sure... Next you are going to tell us the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor.
:-)
They would if there were any penguins in northern latitudes. Polar bears eat anything they can catch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-RKRNSG_c
Rare specimen? Yes.
Rare species? No.
I cannot find the video where the bear actually pulls the whale out of the water.
I guess my car would make a great moose-harvester.... if it weren’t for the fact that it’s only slightly heavier than a full-grown moose.
I would not have been able to shoot the white moose, largely because in my later years I have lost my bloodthirstyness and any desire for a trophy.
But 9 out of ten guys I hunt with would have taken the moose, and I wouldn't have blamed them. They are hunters, most of them very good hunters, and they kill for meat but also the "thrill," as you say.
But they and I would argue that it is the thrill of any predator, and as much a part of them as any wolf, bear, eagle or mountain cat.
"When the buffalo are gone," Sitting Bull is supposed to have said, "we will hunt mice, because we are hunters, and we want our freedom."
Below is a link to an essay by one of my favorite writers, Thomas McGuane, who therein provides the best explanation and rationale I have seen as to why any man hunts.
If you care to look at it, you may have to scroll down (or wordsearch) 8 or ten pages to the title of the piece, "The Heart of the Game." Or it may come right up, I'm not sure. It's the best.
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