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Posted By: Joann

Hunting and fishing: I am also strongly opposed to "slob hunters" as we call them here in Michigan. The ones that roll out for the first time of the season on the 15th of every November to drink beer, throw out piles of sugar beets, and try to shoot a deer so they can show off the big rack to their friends. They don't know the first thing about deer, woods, hunting or anything else. I hold them in the same low regard as anyone else that wants to harm an animal for such an empty purpose.

I have a rule of thumb when it comes to hunting and fishing methods: The more likely it is that I could be successful at it, the less I respect it. Bait piles with video cameras? Fenced in hunting areas with released animals? Stocked trout ponds? No respect. Standing on a 1-foot square tree stand at 30 feet with a compound bow for 8 hours straight without moving or making a sound, and in exactly the right tree that has been selected by spending 8 or 10 weekends quietly sitting in the woods observing deer paths and movements? I tend to respect that more.

So Scott - you are part right. To the extent that hunting and fishing are a big party to some that hope to shoot a deer when they've never been in the woods before - they just want to shoot it - yes, that's as reprehensible as the rest of it.

And is the entire society of Mexcio barbaric because of they have bullfights in Mexico? Well no. No more than the entire society of the US is barbaric because we have dogfights and cockfights here.

Joann