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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:25 AM
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Poll question: If you oppose hunting, about your food...
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:26 AM
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1. Is somebody on a poll bender today?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:27 AM
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2. Don't forget Poll land
I'm sad about a young friend dying suddenly and wasting time before I can sleep. How you doing?
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:31 AM
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5. Mah khoob astam, tashakor.
Coming home in 2 weeks for R&R, so things are looking up.

Sorry to hear about your friend. Was he a hunter?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:38 AM
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8. no, a 20 yr old gentle girl who had recently gotten her act together.
She danced with poi though.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 01:04 AM
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15. There's a rare skill.
It's always sad to lose someone, but it always has a mean edge when they were striving to create beauty or be a force for good.

I'm so sorry.
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BamaGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 01:15 AM
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16. Enjoy your
R&R Squatch! My husband is going in July, though who knows where. They keep changing the orders. Afghan, Iraq. Afghan, Iraq. We're getting whiplash lol. ;) (I joke because, well, it's a way to deal. No offense meant. ;))
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:27 AM
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3. Remember - Bacon is a gateway protein!
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:31 AM
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4. Two alternatives:
1) Meat comes from the grocery store in little refrigerated styrofoam trays. I guess they make it in a factory somewhere.

2) Hamburgers are nature's way of telling cows they're too stupid to survive on their own.

Thank you, that is all.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:33 AM
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6. Im a vegetarian who advocates hunting
If the only meat ever eaten was hunted meat, we would all be in much better shape physically and environmentally.
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:37 AM
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7. As I said elsewhere
I don't oppose hunting for good reason. Trophy hunting, canned hunts, or hunting for fun are things that I'm not okay with.

I'm vegan.

And no, my shoes, purse, and belt are not made of leather, before anyone asks. Canvas, hemp, and recycled stuff are my materials of choice, thanks.



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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:41 AM
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9. I'm a vegan that thinks "shooting and killing" (nee hunting) is just a selfish act.
Bring it.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:44 AM
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11. Are "selfish acts" good or bad, in your book?
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:47 AM
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12. I don't broad brush.
Lots of folks do things that might be considered selfish. Hell, everyone does something daily that could be seen as such.

But, for the topic at hand...

"Hunting" ie "shooting and killing" animals needlessly doesn't really need to be farmed in with a lot of other stuff.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:55 AM
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13. I could illustrate how you've broad-brushed at least twice in this thread
but, that would serve no purpose. It would merely be a selfish act on my part. :)
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:57 AM
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14. Have at it.
Please.
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tama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 06:42 AM
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19. What about
other animals besides humans that hunt for food to feed their children, including our cousins the chimpanzees? Isn't it kind of "selfish" also to put humans above other animals? Or to put "civilized" vegan humans over tribal hunters-gatherers?

I'm a gardener and so I know that when I die hunted and killed by dunno what, I will be eaten by the multitude of worms and other tiny ones of the earth, so that plants can feed on healthy soil, feed herbivores who will feed carnivores etc, in the great cycle of Life.

Are worms and plants also selfish? If all life is selfish, should we not condemn all life and cherish the Void?
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:41 AM
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10. I grow my own vegetables and I hunt them.
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WheelWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 01:45 AM
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17. I'm all for hunting...
and gathering, in situ

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MichaelHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 01:52 AM
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18. I just
clubbed the shit out of a head of lettuce, it looked real good next to that New York strip.
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