@john-barry Yeah I am. I love the little waddlers......plus they're good eatin'.
I should add that I was never so brutal as to eat my pet ducks on the farm as a kid; they were strictly egg producers as my father used to sell them to the local Chinese, who loved them. Me and my buddies would often trudge down to the neighbor's large corn farm reservoirs with our 12 gauges to hunt wild birds, which were delicious.
@jack-dodds, BARBARIAN! Hunting harmless, innocent little birdies. I buy mine from the supermarket, where no animals are made to suffer to fill our stomachs. Furthermore, I only buy the ones that have had their GMOs removed. I don't know what GMOs are, but the ones without them are more expensive, so I figure they're better...somehow.
@jack-dodds, BARBARIAN! Hunting harmless, innocent little birdies. I buy mine from the supermarket, where no animals are made to suffer to fill our stomachs. Furthermore, I only buy the ones that have had their GMOs removed. I don't know what GMOs are, but the ones without them are more expensive, so I figure they're better...somehow.
I used to hunt in Texas. Gave it up when I moved to Tennessee 35 years ago. My deer and birds were organic - no genetically modified junk for me. My favorite birds were Bobwhite quail, ring-neck pheasant and mourning dove, in that order.
@perrone1My favorite birds were Bobwhite quail, ring-neck pheasant and mourning dove,
Small wonder the doves were in mourning with Tony the assassin lurking about.......
I remember that last cock pheasant I shot; it was about 50 years ago. When I picked it up from the field where it had landed I felt SO BAD because it was such a beautiful specimen that I vowed never to hunt or eat pheasant again and I haven't. I actually developed a mental block about it that day; which is of course an overreaction but....there you go.
@jack-dodds, BARBARIAN! Hunting harmless, innocent little birdies. I buy mine from the supermarket, where no animals are made to suffer to fill our stomachs. Furthermore, I only buy the ones that have had their GMOs removed. I don't know what GMOs are, but the ones without them are more expensive, so I figure they're better...somehow.
Good call JK; once again your caring, sensitive side shows through. I am convinced that all creatures that end up in supermarket displays were communicated with in some manner (likely whisperers) and made the decision to commit suicide in order to feed the humans, who they obviously respected greatly, which we deserve. Animals hunted are by comparison basically victims of war. I think I'll go chew on a carrot stick for breakfast......
Personally, I find the ingesting of peasants slightly repulsive. It is no wonder the doves are grieving. Not generally being a carnivorous species (except for that one strain in Australia), they are sensitive to the needless oppression and inhuman treatment of the underprivileged.
Personally, I find the ingesting of peasants slightly repulsive. It is no wonder the doves are grieving. Not generally being a carnivorous species (except for that one strain in Australia), they are sensitive to the needless oppression and inhuman treatment of the underprivileged.
Yeeeeah......that's right JK.....give or take an "h". The consumption of a being based on their financial standing and/or position in any social structure is something I find abhorrent....whatever that means (it has nothing to do with prostitution...I know that much). Bottom line...I generally stay away from it, even after a few beers.
