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In the Suburbs, What to Do About a Deer (Good eating alert)
Washington Post ^
| September 12, 2002
| Bob Levey
Posted on 09/13/2002 2:13:30 PM PDT by Frohickey
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Click on the link to read the story. There is also a link to the email address of the author Bob Levey.
Here is the email that I sent him.
Hello,
I read your column titled "In the Suburbs, What to Do About a Deer", and there were several things I would like to discuss.
1) The man that wanted the deer meet is probably more humane than Cynthia Fain. He would have ended the animal's suffering, while also, not letting the sacrifice the deer made go to waste by rotting away.
2) Cynthia Fain, if she cared for the animal, would have done the difficult task of ending the animal's suffering herself. Instead, she would be the selfish one and stroke the deer's head to give her comfort.
3) The man, in butchering/field dressing the deer's carcass in full view of several children, is involving the children in the harvesting of meat. Be it a demonstration of field dressing. Children, nowadays do not know what is involved in putting the food they eat on the table. They think its just a quick trip to the grocery store or fast food. But there are fields to fertilize, water, livestock to feed and butcher, in order to feed them. Here is a perfect opportunity to expose the children that life (in sustenance) is possible from death (harvested grains/livestock).
4) Cynthia Fain is the odd one of the bunch. The man has just been doing what man has done before. Think back in the colonial days, when men and boys were expected to go out and bring back meat on the table. The children were just being exposed to the natural way of putting meat on the table.
Sincerely,
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posted on
09/13/2002 2:13:30 PM PDT
by
Frohickey
To: Frohickey
It's the "Circle of Life!"
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posted on
09/13/2002 2:21:32 PM PDT
by
gc4nra
To: Frohickey
Cynthia says the children who saw the incident were extremely troubled by the man's behavior, and she "walked away from the scene in tears." Too many people nowadays believe they are vegetarians merely because they pay someone else to butcher the beef in their McDonald's hamburgers. These are the same people who belong to the Sierra Club.
To: Frohickey
I sure could go for someone coming up to my place and shooting the deer (no hunting by us mere plebians allowed, too densely populated for that) and giving them to me to butcher. "Coach potato hunting"... how excellent. I can taste the jerkey just thinking about it! Also BBQ!
To: Frohickey
This gal has watched way to much TV my daughter has been helping butcher her deer from the time she was old enough to shoot them. Before that she helped cut up the ones my wife and myself shot. The gal should have pulled out her pocket knife cut its throat.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cynthia says the children who saw the incident were extremely troubled by the man's behavior, and she "walked away from the scene in tears."Maybe she should take the children to MacDonalds for a happy meal. That would make them feel better and she could tell them that the meat in the burger was picked from a tree.
To: Tom Bombadil
Agree. Eat meat--but let somebody else slaughter it--those animals don't have feelings--but the deer on your lawn does.
The deer in your neighborhood also carries re-emerging infections like lyme disease, babesiosis, and other stuff that can ruin people's health and lives, and the deer in the upper midwest have mad deer disease, so it's coming to your neighborhood too.
Nature keeps a balance. By letting all the deer live and all the trees grow, we ended up with some serious problems on our hands.
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posted on
09/13/2002 4:00:16 PM PDT
by
equus
To: gc4nra
Good grief. In my area the deer should have been tested for Chronic Wasting Disease. Perhaps there is still time.
To: riverrunner
The gal should have pulled out her pocket knife cut its throat. There is no chance that the woman in question carries a pocket knife. She's probably never owned one in her life. In fact, she probably gets queasy if she has to cut a whole chicken into parts and doesn't like to think about the contents of the giblet package in her free-range, organic Thanksgiving turkey--she'd rather buy her gravy in a jar at the local Fresh Fields.
In other words, she's a good Montgomery County soccer mom: pro-choice, anti-gun, and completely clueless.
To: Frohickey
Hey I like the deer...
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posted on
09/13/2002 7:26:16 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: equus
By letting all the deer live and all the trees grow, You mean all those forests that are now corn fields?
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posted on
09/14/2002 1:59:10 PM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: Frohickey
Deer stew, deer tacos, deer steak, fried deer, boiled deer, deer nachos, deer and rice, deer tartare, deer in a blanket, deer appetizers, deer stir-fry, deer on a stick, deer hot-dogs, deer barbeque.
I guess that's just about it.
Apologies to Forrest Gump and Bubba.
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posted on
09/14/2002 2:05:38 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: LibKill
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posted on
09/14/2002 4:41:14 PM PDT
by
Annakin
To: LibKill
boiled deer Let me guess, your are of english or irish extraction.
Boiling meat, what a travisty.
And you forgot deer chili.
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posted on
09/14/2002 4:48:30 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: Frohickey
Let's not turn suburban Maryland into a place where savagery is condoned in the name of free meat. That snippet from the WP article about sums up the author's ignorance.
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posted on
09/14/2002 4:59:00 PM PDT
by
Fzob
To: Dinsdale
Let me guess, your are of english or irish extraction. Ahem, where to start?
Yes, I forgot deer chili, may the ghost of Stephen F. Austin forgive me.
I am not an englishman, or irishman, or any of what those things entails.
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posted on
09/14/2002 5:24:01 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: LibKill
Did'nt mean anything by it, just that boiled meat is a waste of meat.
Many Irish are OK IMHO, scotts as well. They just don't know how to cook or make beer (ducking flames from guiness^h^h^h^h^heniss^h^h^h^h^h^h^hsludge drinkers).
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posted on
09/14/2002 5:28:07 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: Dinsdale
Many Irish are OK IMHO, scotts as well. They just don't know how to cook or make beer Well, as my old dad would say, "It's all a matter of taste, as the man said while kissing the cow."
You will have to admit that the Scots and the Irish make some powerful whiskey.
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posted on
09/14/2002 5:34:03 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: LibKill
You will have to admit that the Scots and the Irish make some powerful whiskey. Powerful good whiskey.
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posted on
09/14/2002 5:36:02 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: Frohickey
I've hunted land very close to the suburbs in the DC metro area. A suppressed .308 with subsonic (very heavy bullet running about 900 fps) hand-loads makes a very lethal, effective, and safe method of culling the herd in areas where soccer-moms live. Best of all, they don't hear a thing. :)
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posted on
09/14/2002 5:41:47 PM PDT
by
gieriscm
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