Mont. Expands Killing of Bison

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[volchef]

Montana this week began slaughtering bison

why doesn't the author tell us how he really feels?

[Jeff Chandler]

Mmm...bison.

[Jeff Chandler]

Montana this week began slaughtering bison

Actually, "slaughtering" is an appropriate descriptive term (pass the A-1, please).

[volchef]

I agree, as I'm a chef and in culinary school I actually watched a calf slaughter. However, I seriously doubt that was the intent of an AP writer.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Send me a hide for a robe

[Jeff Chandler]

Montana this week began slaughtering bison

Could be worse. Could've said massacred.

[Jeff Chandler]

...or Bovinacide.

[JMJ333]

I know you're an animal lover, but I want to give you a heads up on some of the looney things animal-rights activists are saying about Sept. 11. Not that you agree with them, but just so you know where they are coming from...

"Who gives a f**k about New York when elephants are being killed...Animals need saving and that's important...This New York thing is being blown way out of proportion."--Lee Ryan, of the British pop band "Blue"

"For 35 million Chickens in the United States alone, every single night is a terrorist attack."--Karen Davis, United Poultry Concern

"Worldwide, everyday, 125 million innocent sentient animals are dreadfully abused and butchered for food. These tragedies are perpetrated by a worldwide animal agricultural terrorist network that is much more threatening to planetary survival than the Al-Queda network."--Alex Hershaft, National Charirman, Animal Rights

"Many and perhaps most of the nine billion animals sent to slaughter in the US each year, as well as billions killed abroad, have at least as long to sense doom as did the Sept. 11 victims. Neither are the animals' last cries as unlike the cell phone calls made by some of the Sept. 11 victims as the typical meat-eater would like to believe."--Anonymous editorial in Animal Magazine.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Why is the State spending taxpayers' money, when hunters would do it for free?

[Sungirl]

I agree that those are looney.....what they have to realize is that if we don't control(kill) the terrorists...then saving animals is going to be moot....
I also think that some of these people say things in haste when they are mad and hopefully when they think about what they said...they will see the light.

[Sungirl]

True...hunters would enjoy killing the cows ...I mean bisons. They can't run fast, they are HUGE targets and they wouldn't have to worry about gutting them for food or hauling them...since they can't eat them anyway. Yeah....I am sure there would be tons of hunters all over the country signing up to 'help'.

[Uncle Meat]

Can't eat them?!!What the hell do you think was part of the Indians diet for centuries.From what I hear,they are a mighty tastey beast.

[Cleburne]

Perhaps they're worried hunters would decide they enjoyed bison hunting, and press for more bison and a hunting season in Montana?

[Sungirl]

I meant these particular bison because of their possible disease. WOuld you eat these montana bison?

[mamelukesabre]

even a sick animal is safe to eat if it is thoroughly cooked. you could even safely eat a tumor.

....not very appetizing though....the mere thought makes me gag.

[Uncle Meat]

I didn't read into the article.But It would be reasonable to kill them if they're diseased.As far as killing a healthy one,as long as you can pay for the permits,I don't see what would be wrong with that.I don't know why you are so down on hunting.Have you ever been anywhere that the deer are overpopulating to the point where they're a nusience.What are you going to do when they trample your garden and eat all your vegetables.It's going to piss you off and you're going to want to kill them yourself.They're not always lovable.

[Hard Case]

...even a sick animal is safe to eat if it is thoroughly cooked.

Not if it has that darn mad cow disease. Only autoclaving in a chlorine slurry destroys that. Probably not very appetizing afterwards.

[Snuffington]

I meant these particular bison because of their possible disease.

Depends on whether the disease in the article has any affect on humans. There's always the possibility of disease from wild game, yet look at the number of wild game hunters.

Here in Minnesota it would be hunting heresy not to cook what you killed. Without railroads and cattle companies paying top dollar for just the skins, I doubt you'll see a repeat of rotting bison carcasses covering the plains. People who shot them would almost certainly want the meat.