There are many reasons to dislike Sarah Palin. Huntin' ain't one.
ref: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/13/uselections2008.republicans
In Saturday's Guardian, Paul Theroux attacks Sarah Palin over her moose-huntin' credentials: "torturing animals to death with buckshot", "creatures senselessly slaughtered". I'm assuming Paul Theroux is either a vegetarian, or only eats animals that have willingly thrown themselves onto the butcher's blade, died of old age, or fallen out of trees.
I'd rather eat wild game than factory farmed animals any day. Wild game lives a natural, wholesome existence before being offed. Farmed animals live short, brutal, unhealthy lives.
Theroux's short sighted comments also ignore the fact that vast tracts of land are maintained as pristine, biodiverse environments for hunters - grouse moors, for example. Without hunters, many of these environments would be turned over to the next most profitable use - which in the case of grouse moors is blanket coniferous forestry, which creates a monoculture that poisons soil and water courses.
It may jar with the prejudices of the urbanite, but it's a fact that hunting and shooting are more ethical than factory farming and go hand in hand with conservation, contributing to a more biodiverse, environmentally sound planet.
There are many reasons to dislike Sarah Palin, but moose huntin' is not one of them.
In Saturday's Guardian, Paul Theroux attacks Sarah Palin over her moose-huntin' credentials: "torturing animals to death with buckshot", "creatures senselessly slaughtered". I'm assuming Paul Theroux is either a vegetarian, or only eats animals that have willingly thrown themselves onto the butcher's blade, died of old age, or fallen out of trees.
I'd rather eat wild game than factory farmed animals any day. Wild game lives a natural, wholesome existence before being offed. Farmed animals live short, brutal, unhealthy lives.
Theroux's short sighted comments also ignore the fact that vast tracts of land are maintained as pristine, biodiverse environments for hunters - grouse moors, for example. Without hunters, many of these environments would be turned over to the next most profitable use - which in the case of grouse moors is blanket coniferous forestry, which creates a monoculture that poisons soil and water courses.
It may jar with the prejudices of the urbanite, but it's a fact that hunting and shooting are more ethical than factory farming and go hand in hand with conservation, contributing to a more biodiverse, environmentally sound planet.
There are many reasons to dislike Sarah Palin, but moose huntin' is not one of them.
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