Conversations with Co-Workers - Ongoing
"I have a question," I asked. "Why are they feeding deer in Gunnison?"
"You making plans to help this weekend?" Co-Worker #1 asked. "I bet that's right up your alley. Helping the animals, protecting them from death."
"No," I said. "I'm against feeding wild animals. Why is the Department of Wildlife doing such a thing?"
"Gunnison's economy relies on hunters," Co-Worker #3 said. "If Gunnison loses a majority of their herd to starvation, when hunting season rolls around, they're gonna be in a heap of trouble."
"I see," I said. "So they're keeping the deer alive now in order to kill them later."
"Something like that," said Co-Worker #3.
(long pause while Co-Worker #1 stares at me.)
"What?" I asked.
"You're a liberal vegetarian and against feeding animals? I don't get you at all," he said.
posted by kate @ 9:23 AM
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31 Comments:
I always liked Chase's take on hunting, make it fair, give the animals guns. Of, course all they have to is:
A- extend the second amendment, so it's not JUST: The right to arm bears.
B- Make all hunters go out with Dick Cheney, that'll thin the heard!
I don't get my kicks from killing animals, but since I eat meat can't fairly criticize people who do. Neighboring Hilton Head Island, SC, frequently hosts folks who are vehemently anti-hunting. Funny, though, when the deer started eating from some of the well-kept flower-beds on the Island, folks were called in to poison the deer. People, huh?
Nothing like having a radar screen set up to scan for skewed vicissitudes of life.
Some people read the obits everyday, some people check out the left field.
Like a pregnant comedian.
F***d up but funny,
My kid is in angst regarding anon 10:36.
She is home today, writing some paper about how LBJ made MLK what he is. Said she heard about it a week or so ago from a woman politician.
Anyway, the angst has to do with her science project goin awry.
She has been tracking the lunar schedule and content of this site for some time. Interesting statistics.
Check out the phase of the moon today if you like.
Anyway, the concern is that there may be some new variable added to the study that would effect her stats. Something about a change in medicine dosage if too much attention is paid to subject.
I don't know what the hell she is talking about, but she wants anon to shut up.
Whoa, Nellie! Either the Blog comment name assigner needs to start assigning different numbers to different "anonymi", or we got a serious Sybil situation working here.
It's called game management. And if it weren't for such practices, which include hunting, deer would overpopulate their habitat in an extremely short period of time, and then have massive die-offs.
And where does much of the money come from for game management? It comes from hunters. Outfits like Ducks Unlimited, formed by hunters, are a major force in providing what is necessary for sustained populations of wildlife.
Malthusian hunters? Interesting concept.
Anon@11:39 Feeding them now to hunt them later is not game management, it is economically motivated pure and simple. The starvation now would effectively manage numbers this year. Modern problems of overpopulation result from ever-increasing human encroachment into habitat. If we had not sprawled our cities so far and wide, nature would not require so much "help" from us in things like game management. That being said I would think a quick kill from a rifle next season would be a more humane end than starving to death now.
How hard is it to come up with a catchy handle instead of always using Anonymous?
Come on, use something they called you as a kid or behind your back in the Boardroom.
It's not that difficult.
Appropriate equation perhaps?
That equation describes half my fan base.
Funny how you seem to attack someone for posting anonymously when you can't seem to bring yourself to discuss or answer their substantive points. So how about trying once to address issues instead of personalities?
Which one? The one about game management? The one about your kid? Or the one comparing me to a pregnant comedian?
And which one is substantive?
http://www.cafepress.com/savetheforests
Dodging the issues again....pretty transparent.
No need for hunting, how bout a little natural selection. Case in point:
Republicans have overpopulated their habitat in an extremely short period of time, shot themselves in the foot, and now are haveing massive die-offs.
Seriously though, natural selection. Yes the deer would overpopulate and starve. But while they are in such numbers they are weakened, they become plentiful and easy prey. This allows for the repopulation of their predators. Eventually an equilibrium is reached. Kind of how that G_d fellow/gal wanted it. No?
Now, all ye orange clad anons, what have you left? The strongest, fastest, smartest deer. Now, if you're the "shoot fish in a barrel" type you'll enjoy a few years of happy hunting, but if you're a true sportsman then you should be happy and enriched by the upgrade of your opponent.
Oh, one more thing, Kate rocks your heated socks!
Wow, nothing like displaying your blind hatred and general meanness for everyone to see. Well done.
As if democrats never hunt. Yeah, right.
Hate to engage in namecalling, but sometimes, like now, it's the right thing to do to point out how much of a true idiot you are. There are no adequate predators of deer to repopulate, with a few exceptions where they've been re-introduced, and then in only very limited areas. And if there were, a mass starvation of the deer would deprive them of their prey and then the predator would starve out, too.
Imbecile. Next time you try shooting off your mouth, try talking about something that you know a little about.
hey, what about the lunar phase correlated to the content of this blog?
Full moon + hormonal unbalance = unfathomable posits.
I eat meat, yes I am guilty of that. But...if i had to kill that animal myself, I would be a vegetarian. I couldn't shoot and kill an animal. Period. I would find something else to eat.
Hi all, Anon has never seen a wolf or mountain lion or lynx or whatever big cats you got out there. And apparently every single deer will starve off if not for the lofty aspirations of the noble hunter. It's also must be true that an overpopulated prey never leads to an increase of predators.
But I'm just an imbecile filled with blind hatred so what the hell do I know? Hmmm, Anon is an assbag who shoots animals for their own good so she can feel good about herself. Just another Republican doing their part for the environment. Jeez, please shoot me.
I don't think you're in season, Tiny.
This is why I support Soylent Green.
Soylent Green: Good people. Good food.
"idiotic"
"asshole"
"shut up"
Wasn't it you complaining about the level of discourse here? Well I guess I have to rise to your level of supreme debate:
I know you are but what am I.
Like I said, it's the weak, slow, and stupid that are trapped first. Another easy mark, the more you froth the more I laugh.
quakerjono: Soylent Green: Good people. Good food.
Unfortunately, its the not-so-good people that preferably would be the ones ground up. Unfortunately the product would likely be sour and/or bitter and smell like ass. Solyent Purple: Bad People, gives you the runs.
Here's
something that might appeal to the gun nut...I mean hunter...and politico in each of us.
Mike Hunt? Paging Mike Hunt? Er, yeah, that's me, and thank you for feeding my deer, can I get that to go?
I'm a veggitarian, (for only 9 months) and I'm awfully glad they feed my lettuce, keeps it around so I can eat it when the season arrives! And I'm on Record with that!
I notice for all your whining and namecalling, tiny, you still don't have much of a clue about modern game management practices, even while attempting to pontificate about the same. Of course, it's much easier to try and divert attention from your own ignorance by attacking others, isn't it?
If you have some sort of game management degree we should all know about please present. Look, you obviously can dish it out but certainly can't take it, YOU started all the name calling. YOU can't handle any rational back and fourth. YOU have absolutely no sense of humor, YOU should stay off of mommy's computer, YOU have my pity. Feel free to have the last word if it makes you feel better. No need to count, Jesus loves you, that's one.
Happy hunting.
Yep, nothing more than even more petty namecalling from tiny. Why are we not surprised?
Come on, tiny, tell us all about the mountain lions and wolves and lynx and how their populations are SO large that they can replace hunting and control the deer and elk populations in a year or so. Point us at the studies.
What's that? You were just spewing BS?
Again, not surprised.
BBGG: Mommy, I thought trolls only lived under bridges.
MBGG: No sweety, trolls are also found on the Internet. They're petty little creatures who feed off the attention they garner by disrupting normal discourse with personal attacks and extraneous tangents. Always remember little one, don't be afraid of bridges, but Never Ever Feed the Trolls.
Yeah, too bad there always seems to be someone like Tiny around to shoot off their mouth on some topic they know nothing about and namecall those who do and who are trying to discuss a topic intelligently.
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