paladin: our Gun Enthusiasts are linking up with the natural foods movement, proclaiming (ad nauseum) that food which you "harvest" yourself is healthier for you, and much, much, much more noble than just buying some ground round at a grocery store.
Yep, that's the hunting mantra, mighty hunters putting food on their family (as an ignoble past president put it); but there are drawbacks to hunting they don't want you to know about, as they stand knee deep in a rainy marsh waiting hours for some mallards to fly over so they can get happy duck dynasty style by blowing a few mallards heads off.
.. buckshot has a tendency to get stuck in the flesh of the harvest, oftentimes attributed to why some gun-hunters have missing front teeth & other dental issues. Plus their families who partake in the 'foul' cornucopia.
.. then there's jakob kreuzfeld syndrome or malady, which results from improperly handled deer meat & other animals I suppose, not getting it refrigerated soon enough & letting the warm weather hasten it's deterioration such that the meat starts to spoil in parts & if you ingest it it can cause severe problems, like in the head, like what presumed to've happened to my uncle in the 60's when he ate some venison & suddenly developed a splitting head lasting for days.
.. and in the past 30 years at least I've never come across a grocery store or even private owned market which didn't have fresh meat on the shelves for reasonable prices, half of which I bet gets thrown out or given to employees instead of just letting it rot out.
.. then you gotta get a 'duck stamp' or deer (et al) license to shoot & bag them, imho more than the fowl most of em get is even worth. Five dollars a duck or goose a better way to put food on your family if you ask me, than standing in the woods for hours & having to walk around with a loaded gun. And recall that poor guy who was impaled when he was coming down off his deer perch on a tree, ow, count dracula somewhere is grinning (he impaled about 75,000 people, mostly innocents, ranks with hitler as per evil imo). And the inevitable hunting accidents which occur willy nilly throughout deer season.
.. then there's poaching, not as big a problem at least in USA where it's est'd 10% of the game which is eaten is from poaching, far less than the 50% worldwide estimate (including the awful habit of killing elephants rhinos giraffes lions tigers bears etc in sub saharan africa too.).
.. I'm not all against hunting, sometimes it's necessary, but I can argue either way on it & enjoy this side of the argument more.
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