Protein requirements; excellent article

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BlueBrooke wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:01 -0800, Wildbilly
wrote:

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:40:19 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

So hunting should be more popular. Check. There are bow hunters who
sing to their prey as the prey dies. Hunting is more gentle than
ranching and more spiritual an activity among any hunter in my family.

It's deer season here and they closed the school on Monday and Tuesday
because of it. So I guess you could say it's popular. Gentle or
spiritual, though, not really. These guys are bored with tin cans and
just want to shoot something that bleeds.

I don't hunt, my guys don't, either, so we've no interest in it at
all. And the last time I tried to eat venison . . . ugh. I don't
"get it," but I understand that my neighbors do. While I do wish they
were hunting to feed their families, most of them aren't.

Agreed, killing as sport is sick, but if you eat meat, somebody killed
it for you. We would probably eat less meat, if we had to kill our own.

Yes, someone killed it for me. Thank goodness. There has always been
someone else to do that. Thank goodness. If all the feedlots were
shut down tomorrow, there would still be someone else to do that. :-)

That could appear as hypocritical :O(
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In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:25:35 -0800, Wildbilly
wrote:

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:01 -0800, Wildbilly
wrote:

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:40:19 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

So hunting should be more popular. Check. There are bow hunters
who
sing to their prey as the prey dies. Hunting is more gentle than
ranching and more spiritual an activity among any hunter in my
family.

It's deer season here and they closed the school on Monday and
Tuesday
because of it. So I guess you could say it's popular. Gentle or
spiritual, though, not really. These guys are bored with tin cans
and
just want to shoot something that bleeds.

I don't hunt, my guys don't, either, so we've no interest in it at
all. And the last time I tried to eat venison . . . ugh. I don't
"get it," but I understand that my neighbors do. While I do wish
they
were hunting to feed their families, most of them aren't.

Agreed, killing as sport is sick, but if you eat meat, somebody killed
it for you. We would probably eat less meat, if we had to kill our own.

Yes, someone killed it for me. Thank goodness. There has always been
someone else to do that. Thank goodness. If all the feedlots were
shut down tomorrow, there would still be someone else to do that. :-)

That could appear as hypocritical :O(

Not sure how you arrived at that. But then, I'm not sure how you come
to most of your conclusions.

Encouraging killing by proxy, so that you can avoid the messy details,
seems to me to be hypocritical, but you certainly aren't alone.
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"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-Archbishop Helder Camara

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http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm

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,
Wildbilly wrote:

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:25:35 -0800, Wildbilly
wrote:

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:01 -0800, Wildbilly
wrote:

In article ,
BlueBrooke wrote:

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:40:19 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

So hunting should be more popular. Check. There are bow hunters
who
sing to their prey as the prey dies. Hunting is more gentle than
ranching and more spiritual an activity among any hunter in my
family.

It's deer season here and they closed the school on Monday and
Tuesday
because of it. So I guess you could say it's popular. Gentle or
spiritual, though, not really. These guys are bored with tin cans
and
just want to shoot something that bleeds.

I don't hunt, my guys don't, either, so we've no interest in it at
all. And the last time I tried to eat venison . . . ugh. I don't
"get it," but I understand that my neighbors do. While I do wish
they
were hunting to feed their families, most of them aren't.

Agreed, killing as sport is sick, but if you eat meat, somebody
killed
it for you. We would probably eat less meat, if we had to kill our
own.

Yes, someone killed it for me. Thank goodness. There has always been
someone else to do that. Thank goodness. If all the feedlots were
shut down tomorrow, there would still be someone else to do that. :-)

That could appear as hypocritical :O(

Not sure how you arrived at that. But then, I'm not sure how you come
to most of your conclusions.

Encouraging killing by proxy, so that you can avoid the messy details,
seems to me to be hypocritical, but you certainly aren't alone.

Perhaps a license to buy meat should require so many hours working in
the slaughter house; this would be similar to food co-ops today. Likely
the slaughter houses would be less inhumane.

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