Posted on 04/25/2010 10:23:10 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt stopped on his way to the bathroom at Town Hall on Monday to thank a young girl for voicing her opinion on the local deer population.
"Thank you for coming tonight," he said, hunched over.
"I'm 5, and I know you don't kill deer," Daisy Mozgala said.
"Please don't kill Bambi," her mother, Debbie Mozgala, pleaded.
Kleinschmidt gave a helpless, paralyzed look; fitting for a night spent more on emotion than fact.
Earlier in the evening the Mozgalas spoke at the public forum on a "Potential Urban Deer Hunt inside Chapel Hill's Corporate Limits,” at which Mozgala pointed to her daughter's brown hair.
"She may blend in and be mistaken for game," Mozgala said.
Hyperbolic or sensational examples — like the woman waving a plush, stuffed tick above her head and telling the audience that it could "get into your heart and brains" or the resident who claims to have “a deer superhighway in my backyard” — and personal gardening and recreational preferences won the night’s debate over whether to allow bow hunting of deer inside the town limits.
Despite three hours of testimony from more than 20 residents and experts, the council did essentially nothing. They passed a resolution asking town staff to determine the process for conducting a deer census, to analyze recent losses of vegetation and to present a range of options to cull the herd.
It was clear to everyone, except Councilwoman Laurin Easthom, who doesn't want to know anything more about bowhunting, that they lacked data to make a decision.
It's been 13 months since the first person petitioned the council to address the deer population, which, residents say, is expanding exponentially. And still, council says it doesn't have enough information.
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People are nuts. I hear the kangaroo population in Australia is exploding, too. In New Zealand they have huge deer farms. Too sensible for the USA.
Irks me when parents use their kids as political props. I don’t like it when the Republicans do it either.
Deer were destroying the S. Island of NZ and they did a lot of hunting to reduce the herd(infestation). They were not a native animal. I saw them hunting from helo’s and getting paid by the govt to do it.
It is the urbanization ;when all your food comes prepackaged and you never have to think about the realities.
global warming lurks everywhere
interestingly,
our following in the footprints of Adam
has been replaced
as the great force of evil in the world by
our carbon footprints
at least with Christianity there was an admission that at some point there mut be faith
but with the religion of global warming they hold on to the absurdity that it is a scientific reality, when that is so stupid and even if true, it is not antrhopomorphic and could never be affected by human activity
It's stupid to make policy on the statement of a five-year-old kid, for gawd's sake. Bambi! It's meat, you fool!
Nothing takes out a car like a deer. :(
Venison steak tastes great with raspberry sauce. Much better than a stew. Also, the liver is what you want the day you take it. When fresh, it tastes nothing like any liver you’ve ever eaten.
There are lots of ways to do up an antler rat very nicely.
Yummy!
Thanks for those bits of information. If I ever get my hands on a Bambi, there’s gonna be goooood eating here. I’ll even give the cats a taste (actually I found some canned venison flavored cat food, and they liked it).
Hey “Mozgilla”; you probably kind of look like an intelligent human being. In a crowd you could be mistaken for one.
Ground venison for Tacos....the BEST!
We eat alot of venison each year and have never had a deer steak. We like tender, small, pan-fried, like chicken, venison with potatoes or rice and gravy. Instead of stew, we make barbecued venison and eat it on buns.
Half venison, half wild hog makes great sausage too.
There is a secret to cooking venison. Most people overcook it and it is tough.
Deer breed like rabbits and in such numbers as to starve themselves where they are not hunted by other animals or man. They are beautiful animals, but I feel no more compunction about killing one than I do about killing a pig. City people are sentimental because they can imagine that a wilderness is a garden, just because it is beautiful. But God created lions for a reason.
"Why build a zoo, when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?"
That sounds really tasty. Someday I am going to eat some venison.
That sounds really tasty. Someday I am going to eat some venison.
Shoot a yearling in this little girl's honor. One, they taste incredibly good, and two, that's the age class that gets the heaviest predation.
Try canning it.
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