Some horrible person has shot 30 rabbits

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Cubist

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I eat cheese made from cows milk. I don't think the cows would've been blasted to death after their milk producing days were over.
No, they'd be slaughtered same as many others. However, the dairy industry that produced the milk slaughters any bull calves at birth in order for you to enjoy your cheese. Not in slaughter houses either, but by shooting. So those bull calves have died for your benefit nevertheless.

I'll ask again. Are you a vegetarian?
 
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Accy cyclist

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It's between posts 62 and 64.
No, they'd be slaughtered same as many others. However, the dairy industry that produced the milk slaughters any bull calves at birth in order for you to enjoy your cheese. Not in slaughter houses either, but by shooting. So those bull calves have died for your benefit nevertheless.

I'll ask again. Are you a vegetarian?

More or less yes i am. I still eat fish and admit to eating the occasional processed meat product, but i'm phasing that stuff out as i move towards a non dead animal diet. My favorite meat was lamb but i gave that up about 3 years ago. I decided to stop eating my favorite flesh to show my commitment and the rest have followed.
 

Cubist

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More or less yes i am. I still eat fish and admit to eating the occasional processed meat product, but i'm phasing that stuff out as i move towards a non dead animal diet. My favorite meat was lamb but i gave that up about 3 years ago. I decided to stop eating my favorite flesh to show my commitment and the rest have followed.
Then I admire your comitment. You need however to take more of an interest in how your food is sourced. Pest control is a vital part of agriculture, on all levels. Crops that provide staples like wheat, maize, barley, and pulses need to be protected from pest species such as pigeons, rabbits, deer for example. Without pest controllers the production becomes inefficient and expensive. In the UK a huge amount of pest control is performed by amateurs shooting for the pot, for the purposes of pest control and for pleasure. To pretend it isn't enjoyable would be hypocritical.

Those who eat meat and dairy products without thinking about how those are produced could be said to be hypocritical. The dairy industry in particular is a terribly cold-hearted game. The same must be said of egg production.

From a personal point of view I feel I need to take responsibility for my actions. I enjoy eating meat, and make a point t of knowing how it reached my plate. I won't knowingly eat anything intensively farmed, avoiding imported meats of any description. What's more, I shoot and eat rabbits and venison. I am not ashamed to say this, it takes enormous skill and dedication to learn how to do it properly, legally, ethically and humanely.

If I shoot a deer, I do so knowing it has lived wild and free, has not been caged, and more importantly has died an instant and stress-free death. I take full responsibility for doing so and am extremely grateful to nature for allowing me to do so.

If you think that's sad, then so be it.
 

slowmotion

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I don't shoot animals but I eat meat that has come from a slaughterhouse. The animal's death is a necessary part of my wish to eat it's flesh. Why should it matter if people like shooting other animals that are going to be eaten? Their death is probably swifter and less stressful than that of others travelling hundreds of miles in a lorry to a distant abbatoir
 

Cubist

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@Cubist, deer. Vermin or livestock, and does either viewpoint change the way you'd go about shooting them?
Game. Although population density can become problematic in certain environments, they can be considered to have reached pest proportions in others. The term vermin is of itself pejorative, denoting something which when shot is or should be discarded- eg rats. There is an entire industry built up around stalking in certain areas, for example lowland Scotland for Roe, and the Highlands for reds. Roe in particular thrive in forestry land and are considered to be verging on plague proportions in places. Culling and stalking becomes necessary, and because it is popular as a sport there is a manifold benefit..... local employment, community income benefit and of course a source of meat.

However, the area of North Yorks where I go has a massive self-sustaining population of roe. Farmers report damage to arable and fodder-crops as well as forestry. We don't need to actively cull, but are careful to take appropriate animals only, leaving healthy animals to continue the good work.

I know of deer farms where people pay to help cull livestock. It isn't my bag I'm afraid, I much prefer to use experience and skill to locate and select the right animal at the right time. I don't want them laid on for me.
 

classic33

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I'd a relative that used to shoot and eat rabbits. The one thing that stopped him was the increase in myxomatosis.

Replaced by a newer strain in the SE(England), that's a lot worse.
 
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