[Frohickey]

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.

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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,

[gc4nra]

It's the "Circle of Life!"

[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."

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.

[GOP_1900AD]

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!

[riverrunner]

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.

[weikel]

Hey I like the deer...

[LibKill]

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.

[Fzob]

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.

[gieriscm]

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. :)

[SamAdams76]

City slickers like this Cynthia crack me up. She's probably already been back in the supermarket since, picking out cuts of meat and poultry to feed her family. Where do these people think this meat comes from?