No Animals Were Harmed In The Making Of This Meat
I was up in Iqaluit last week-end and watching a bow hunting show with my grandson on Sunday morning that started out with the warning.
This show may contain scenes that are not suitable for children. Viewer discretion is advised.
We sat and watched the whole show and I did not see one single scene that was not suitable for my 2 1/2 year old grandson to see.
The hunter hid in a blind, he waited until he had a good shot, and he dropped a mule deer with one arrow- – what’s the big deal?
When talking with the anti-sealing bunch I try and remind them that if they are eating the chances are very good that something died. I tell them that there is no meat fairy and that if they are eating some animal was alive and breathing, someone killed it, there was blood on the floor, and blood on someones hand, because that’s the way it works.
Until seeing this image over at Squirrel Chatter I really didn’t believe that some of these people were stupid enough not to know where meat came from — now I’m not so sure.
… go to the store and buy meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed?
Is it possible that when I give some of these loonies my little “if you are eating something died” talk I am really giving them new information?
I am speechless…and these people vote? No wonder the Conservatives are in power…
Mike,
I think a good deal of Conservatives are people more likely to be outdoorsy, more rural folk, northern, more aware of hunting and fishing and respect for wildlife. It’s the Liberals who think meat is made in the supermarket.
Raphael, people who are “outdoorsy, rural, northern, aware of hunting and fishing and respect for wildlife” are smart, not stupid and thus less likely to be conservatives.
Ralph, you’d be surprised at how many stupid “conservatives” there are in the “Big Cities” and even in the country
@Raphael: I’m sure you have a source for that, being bent more than a little left (in a non-authoritarian way) I take issue with that statement.
Alright, this is getting silly.
Typically, those “on the left” accuse those “on the right” of being gun-toting yadda yadda yadda rednecks, this site included. NOW you want to imply, via the comments, that no, actually, conservatives are not-quite-vegetarians-but-people-who-think-the-shrink-wrapped-steak-doesn’t-involve-the-death-of-a-cow?
Pick one.
Raph – you started this with your “It’s the Liberals who think meat is made in the supermarket.” comment. I have lots of Liberal friends that hunt, and a surprising number of Conservative friends that are vegan. Probably not so surprisingly, given my neighborhood and political leanings, I don’t have too many self-proclaimed NDP supporters as friends, so can’t comment on their eating habits (although my BC NDP friends all happily chowed down on steak, the rarer the better).
Generalizations are always lazy and stupid. Raph never fails to disappoint.
Maybe no animals were harmed in the making of the meat, but it appears a few may have been massacred in the re-designing of this site.
That’s not weasel roadkill, you cultural illiterate, it’s graffiti. Amusingly cheezoid.
Wow, I was just taking the opportunity to be snarky… I didn’t expect the bloddy Spanish Inquisition…
And Raph didn’t start it, I did with my generalization of people who vote for the CPC being stupid.
Wow, some folks are touchy…
FWIW I am a gun loving, hunting and fishing lety and have been all my life, even when I was a DIpper. I suspect all those folks that vote for Charley Angus are too.
There is plenty of stupidity for all the major parties to have their share..
@Peter: I’m guessing that because, in the grand scheme of things, you are a relative newbie that you are not aware that we live in a bunker, the stageleft basement bunker.
It is an extensive network of tunnels and caverns accidentally found during an recruitment expedition some years ago that has since been expanded to include storage for mead vats, the bunker Hall of Hero’s, balbulicans revolutionary reference library (that he is usually to humble to mention includes some of his own works), multiple high-speed fibre optic trunks, a server farm, a satellite tracking station, 3 martial arts training facilities, a 2/3 scale model of the Jade Lily Cafe once found on the banks of the Salwiyawaddirakiso River, and numerous planning and staging areas for when the revolution begins in earnest.
The entrance, of course, is a closely guarded secret known only to myself, balbulican, treehugger, Lily, and Ma x – those who enter it do so blind folded and the only light of day they see until they leave (also blind folded) comes through a cleverly designed series of sky lights that people walk over each and every day without ever knowing that a vast revolutionary organization with the task of benevolent world domination is right below them.
It is a bunker for petes sake, what do you think bunkers look like anyway?
– in any event, your indiscretion is forgiven, and (after a lot of persuasion and no little measure of begging on my part) Lily and Ma x have agreed to stand down the elite group of bunker re-educators they initially wanted to send after you.
A word of caution, never, and I do mean never, say something like that around Ma x. Her loyalty to the bunker and the cause for which it stands is unparalleled, and it is rarely healthy to make the martial arts instructor of what was once Mao’s Fourth Revolutionary Women’s Battalion (White Tiger Platoon) even slightly suspicious of ones motives.
I urge you to read The True and Secret Origins of Stageleft the Blog for a bit of history.
@Mike: Don’t worry about it Mike, part of the bunker operational plan is to redesign the political blogosphere in our image and thereby hasten the end of generalization and hyper-partisan political rhetoric
Excellent!
I think you’ve been had–that newspaper clip was obviously not serious. But you know, on that bow-hunting thing, I could see why a little kid might be affected. Just saying.
Anyway, my question is–if we hunt down Raph for food, are we liberals or conservatives?
I like the new look, by the way. Happy Canada Day!
“if we hunt down Raph for food, are we liberals or conservatives?”
We’re vegetarians. No meat there.
Happy Canada Day.
Seeing how food is hunted would affect children negatively? How?
Hiding how food is produced from children leads to ignorance.
Thanks, we still have a few bits and pieces of code to adjust, and some widgets to fire up — but we think we like the place to
“Seeing how food is hunted would affect children negatively? How?”
To a young, southern child not previously exposed to hunting, and raised on talking animals in saturday morning cartoons, that might be a bit too much reality a bit too suddenly. Yes, it’s a shame our culture has insulated itself from the bloody reality of food production – I think it’s just a subset our habit of isolating ourself from the depressing reality of inevitable mortality – but I could see my little niece in Kingston being quite upset by a Baker Lake hunting program.