Girls and Boys, Meet Nature. Bring Your Gun.

NY Times ^ | September 18, 2005 | PAM BELLUCK

[mmercier]

My cousins teenage children thought the chicken they eat came from Stop&Shop. They all ran in horror when my brother showed them how to dress one.

My grandmother told me once that until she was a teenager she never ate any meat that she did not see slaughtered and dressed.

They ate my mothers "pet" lamb when she was 9, she has been an animal rights activist since.

Get over it, you eat or are eaten. Knowing how to feed yourself is never a bad thing, even for childrens.

[cyborg]

Wow that's amazing. Thank you for your service!

[struggle]

Wait until a major social disruption happens. Then we'll see whether it's good or not to have a gun, NYT.

[Squantos]

Do ya fish ?

[cyborg]

Well you are welcome to disagree with my opinion.

[struggle]

>>Hunting people, OTOH, is FUN.

[cyborg]

No. I don't eat fish but even if I did, I wouldn't eat anything fish from around Long Island that's for sure. Too much poison in the fish.

[lndrvr1972]

Kids with guns OMG. What people do not realize is that those kids in WWII saved this country because they could shoot.

[ChefKeith]

Do you eat meat?

[datura]

Some people never understand that there are only two types of humans: Predator and prey.

Once you have the mindset of the former, you seldom if ever become the latter. Once one assumes the latter, they never become the former.

Our forefathers didn't claw their way to the top of the food chain in order for us to eat our vegetables. We're carnivores by design.

The meek shall inherit the $hit.

[Salamander]

Hunting your own food teaches you a reverance for life that a non-hunter will never fully know.

Until you have killed, dressed and eaten your own animal, you can't truly appreciate the sanctity of all life.

After that, you'll never look casually at the store-bought beef steak laying on your plate.

You fully -understand- the significance of what you're eating and are never less than completely grateful for it.

The Indians had a good point when they "thanked the spirit" of the animals they had just slain.


To each his own but I thank my father for teaching me all that.

[JOHANNES801]

I started at 9 and I still do it at 52.

[Salamander]

Beautiful, magnificent dogs.

Thanks for the info..:)

[off to Google Plott hounds, now]...;))

[cyborg]

I am a vegetarian, but not a vegan though I will be for health reasons. If someone needs to hunt for food well that's fine. I would rather someone who is hungry hunt their own meat than buy that processed crap in the stores.

[strategofr]

"The NY Times, who'd a thunk it?"

The NYT sees this as the opposite from the way you do.

[rjp2005]

Great. And the "boy with his mother learning how to make curtains and fluff drapes article with photo" is right next to it. Time to get back to teaching our boys to protect and our girls to nurture.

[mmercier]

>> There'll always be hunters. My children just won't be any.

That is what happened to me. I have shot paper since I was 18, my mother told me when I bought my first rifle that if she ever found out I hunted she would disown me.

My little brother hunts with her three brothers and she did not disown him...

Still, I never hunt anything more than catfish out of respect for her mania.

[WKUHilltopper]

My 12 yr old daughter can take you down at 500 yards... ;)

[LauraleeBraswell]

Hell yeah. I love steak. I know the cow gets slaughtered. But that doesn't mean I want to do it myself.