people complain about hunting. yet they eat meat...

[pax]

Brad ~

My info is probably 17 years out of date (my firstborn's 17th birthday is tomorrow), but came from a book titled What to Eat When You're Expecting. That book was very sympathetic to vegetarianism in general, and did a good job discussing the various nutritional challenges faced by both omnivores and vegetarians in pregnancy. It did make a point of saying that vegans should become ovo-lacto vegetarians for the duration of pregnancy & lactation, because babies' developing brains need a significant amount of cholesterol in order to develop optimally. The citations in the back of the book looked solid to my unscholarly eye -- but as I said, that book was published at least 17 years ago. That's why I asked if y'all had discussed it; I'm curious what current research has to say on the topic.

pax

 

[DirtyBrad]

pax,

Thanks for posting that. Like I said, first I've heard of it. I'll see what I can find out.

If it's true, it would be a case where eating animal products isn't a case merely of taste, but of necessity.

Like I've said, in the question of how my food tastes vs. an animal's treatment, the answer is overwhelmingly clear to me.

As is any question of an animal dying so that I (or, in this case, my unborn child) can live.

 

[MCgunner]

I'm planning on eating some deer steak, battered and with gravy and bisquits tonight too. I would have fired up the grill and used mesquite charcoal, but it's gonna be too cold and windy this evening.

Front blew in here with rain this morning. I'd planned to get up and go sit in the stand, but blew it off. I'll give it a couple of days and go.

Friend of mine stopped by after his graveyard shift this morning anyway to borrow my P85 Ruger to take his qualification for his permit with. He called me last night begging. All he has is a revolver and in Texas, you need to qualify with an auto so you can carry either one, retarded, but the way it is. I'm probably going to take him down there to hunt deer/hog one or two mornings and we're going to get together for second half of duck season. This guy is a good hunting buddy, has a good labrador and an air boat. So, I figured I'd take him deer huntin' on my place and call in some chips down the road. LOL

It's supposed to be near freezing in the morning. Saturday morning sounds good, wind'll probaby lay by then.

 

[mustanger98]

I have a wind advisory for my area from noon today through 8pm- they're calling for possible flurries this afternoon- but then the front passes and it gets down about 16F overnight. The high tomorrow's only going to be in the low 40's and I'll be hunting tomorrow evening if everything goes my way. The forecast is looking good through Monday when it gets up to 58F and that's the warmest their calling for up till then. This oughta get the bucks moving good and I know there's an old big'un back there 'cause I saw him the Sunday before Thanksgiving when I got that inbred lopsided spike. He was a big-bodied heavy-muscled type, but just didn't have the genetics to make braggin' antlers. We got some purty steaks off of that one... that's what I'm talking about eating tonight.

Problem we have in Georgia is antler restrictions. We're required, if we shoot two bucks as allowed for, that one has to be 4Xsomething. They intended that to promote big bucks, but I don't think it's working. I went several years figuring I'd take out the old big'un first and go "any size" after that and I wound up letting several decent shooter bucks walk based on antlers... didn't get my deer those years. I said "forget this" and got my deer this year. I think We the People in my state need to get together and change the law back to no antler restrictions and get a bunch of inbred bucks out of the gene pool. We got plenty of 'em walking around out here.

 

[langenc]

People are hypocrites. they eat meat, and yet complain about killing animals. they say its okay to eat meat from farms, because they dont suffer...

 

[DirtyBrad]

Well, it lasted longer than I thought a thread about meat eating could ever last...