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Oh, another thing that really pishes me out about that HSUS video/write-up about how bad dove hunting is: it was written to imply that dove only breed in the fall during hunting season. That's malarkey. In warmer climates they can basically breed year round. Farther North they start around march and continue through about October.
I hear ya. Mis-infomation is the scumbag antis best friend. I have two breeding pairs around my house all year long. They even sit on the power lines and watch me BBQing their brethren sometimes. My kids used to feed them and coo to them when they were younger. Then they would come inside and scarf down dove breast after dove breast for dinner. LOL what a great commercial that would make.
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A few hunts when the dove were scarce we brought home a few pidgin. Same great taste just a bit bigger.
I've actually eaten a rock dove or two. I had an ethical dilemma about killing pigeons during a live-flyer dog training exercise and decided to eat them.
The immature, young birds (which are easily identified by close inspection) are very, very similar to white-wing dove, only, as you said, larger. There is a reason that squab is considered a delicacy, it seems. The mature, older birds: markedly different and almost gross. It is definitely food but not that definitely.
Anyway, since I can't really find the motivation to eat pigeons I don't participate in live-shoot training anymore. We still train with wingers and shackled birds and some still get killed incidentally, but I don't feel like I'm racking up black spots on my soul that way.
The tiger, one of nature's most beautiful, powerful and intelligent animals, is currently endangered due to hunting. Do you think these people were eating the tigers? If they were, do you think the tiger was their best and easiest choice for them to eat? Do you think they had no more sustainable meat available? Hunters, justify this: a "time honored tradition" is killing of one of Earth's most beloved creatures.
You might say that you hunt only animals that are not endangered. Well, tigers weren't always endangered either.
You might say that any meat is contributing to the decline of a species. This really isn't a thought out argument. These animals were born for food. Tigers weren't. Foxes weren't. Deer weren't.
So before the next time you go out on a hunt... think about how you are impacting not just this animal, not just this environment, but the entire world. Perhaps, because of you, your great-grandchildren will never be able to go into the forest and see a deer or a fox. Don't we owe them the opportunity to experience nature and her beauty? Don't we?
In a few simple words that maybe you can understand: You don't know what you're talking about!
He sure don't know nuthin about deers.. That's a fact! Gators are endagnered in the NYC sewers too, a place they should never have been.
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Hunting Misrepresented
