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The caribou slaughter- that beautiful majestic animal murdered for the hell of it - made me sick. Palin described the kill as fun; how despicable! If people need to kill wild animals for food to feed their families, well ok, it's legal. But for a multimillionaire to kill just for FUN- that woman is pure solid trash to the core. Anything for face time on tv. It's hateful.
I haven't seen the show, but here's my defense of huntiing.
My father and brothers fished and hunted (deer, pheasant, ducks, doves). Growing up, I refused to eat anything they caught or shot - I didn't like thinking about where that meat on my plate had come from. I never went hunting. My dad took me fishing a couple of times until at age 4 or 5, I said "Daddy, let's not kill any more fish."
In my twenties, I came to the conclusion that hunting and eating what you killed is a lot more honest than going to the supermarket and buying meat in plastic and not acknowledging to yourself where that meat came from. Hunters I know, take great pains not to waste meat - not because they're thrifty, but because they are very aware that an animal gave its life for their meal, so they don't like to see meat thrown out.
How about fishing? Is that okay? If so, why is a trout or salmon any less noble than a caribou?
Hunting in most places is regulated by state fish and game departments and is used to control wildlife populations. When populations are up, hunting limits are up; when populations are down, hunting season is limited;
In many areas, the natural predators of hunted animals have disappeared. That's true of deer where I live. Deer live in populated areas here and there are virtually no mountain lions here anymore (thank goodness!). The deer's only predator now is motor vehicles. Herds have grown because there are no predators to keep their population down, and the deer are emaciated and starve to death.
It's not a political tool? Your comments certainly sound political in nature-using the Palins alleged self sufficency to critique those who do not share your particular view of what makes someone a good american. By the way, it's kind of hard to go shooting elk and fishing in a river when you are stuck in the middle of a economically deprived city such as Detroit or in the middle of the rust belt.Originally Posted by lithargic;4116957;
Survivor creator Mark Burnett on his shows enduring popularity: " It is a morality tale." from the www.emmytvlegends.org interview archives
Thank you, Kip. I also feel that the hunted animal is killed far more humanely than a commercially grown one, 98% of the time. I think "mistakes" in slaughterhouses occur at almost the same percentage rate as bad hunting shots. And the slaughterhouse animal has a far longer "bad time" than a deer that was eating acorns five seconds before it died. .
Also, when hunters I know say it's a "fun" sport, I think what most really mean is that they enjoy getting outside, seeing nature, etc, and get satisfaction from providing for themselves and family, plus knowing they could do so for however long necessary if there were some kind of national emergency or something. (NO, I don't think we are about to be out of food in this country, I'm just saying something COULD happen someday to disrupt the supply) . I've never heard anyone mentioning that they actually find it amusing or funny to kill animals for the heck of it. I hope that's what Sarah Palin means when she says it's fun to hunt, and I'm reasonably sure it is.
I do enjoy this show, and if some of the people who are commenting without seeing it at all watched at all, they would have seen this past episode where the family worked on their fishing boat. I thought it was great that the whole family did so well together when for the most part, the fishing days it showed didn't really result in very many fish in the nets after a ton of hard work. I don't like the political Sarah Palin, and i hate her speaking voice, but this family seems a lot more grounded and united than most I see on TV to me.
Yep. I get all this. But, what I still don't get is the mentality behind thinking that killing a defenseless animal is enjoyable. I don't mean to badmouth "hunting" because it really is engrained in some people. And, it can be (isn't always) far more humane than 99% of the commercial operations.
All I can come up with is that there is a genetic throwback to earlier times at play for some people and not for others.
And, I don't get how I can still eat meat even though the commercial operations are so disgraceful and inhumane.
Is anyone familiar with Temple Grandin? She is the autistic woman a doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. She devised a system to humanely slaughter cattle by reducing stress for animals on their way to slaughter, proving the industry can do things much better then it does. She also has devised ways to improve standards at livestock farms.
"I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect."
—Temple Grandin
HBO took the movie Emmy for Temple Grandin this year. I bought her book Thinking in Pictures after seeing it.
About 1/3 of all cattle in the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan are handled (feeding, delousing, and slaughtered) in humane handling systems designed by Dr. Grandin. She makes the point that domesticated beef, buffalo and pigs would not exist, if not to feed us. And that is true. We owe them dignity and a death free from pain or terror. Her systems deliver that.
Sarah did not exactly look like a crack shot in this kill. It took her several tries to bring the cariou down and it was not clear that they were all "clear" misses, not woundings.
Sarah Palin and Her Father Hunt and Kill a Caribou (VIDEO)
This woman is clearly part political animal... the hinder most part....Sarah herself wears a hunting cap with the words "Girls and Guns" embroidered in pink.
And Sarah Palin is the first person to make a kill. After missing several shots, Sarah takes dead aim through the sight of her rifle, squeezes off a final round, and kills the enormous animal. The caribou suddenly crumples to the ground. "Dere ya go, baby!" Mr. Heath yells to his daughter.
"When you're shootin', everything seems to be happening very, very quickly," Sarah says. But then, Sarah does pause -- and in her voice-over speech she quotes controversial conservative activist Ted Nugent. "In the words of Ted Nugent," she says, while standing over the dead caribou's body, "we thank that mighty animal for living a good life and now sustaining a nice family."....
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