Re:The Fireplace Delusion
by betterunix on Monday March 11, 2013 @12:09PM
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"Maybe there are places where it really is cheaper to hunt food with a gun than buy it, but America is not one of them."
This is not true. Where I went to college, there were people in the surrounding area who ate squirrels. Yes, squirrels are edible, and a handful of squirrels can make a meal.
.22lr ammunition is more than sufficient to kill a squirrel, rabbit, or small bird, and you can buy it at 4 cents per cartridge. That means you can get all the meat needed for dinner for 20-30 cents. Excluding food stamps, where else can you get meat so cheaply?
There is another issue with hunting, which I mentioned elsewhere: overpopulation. In many places in America, there are so many deer that they are considered a nuisance species. I live in an area where there are more deer today than there were when Europeans first arrived on this continent. Hunting deer is a form of population control and the limits on how many deer can be taken are set to meet those goals.
Yes, controlling the deer population is important. Deer cause a lot of property damage, and that problem is worsened as the deer population increases.
This is not true. Where I went to college, there were people in the surrounding area who ate squirrels. Yes, squirrels are edible, and a handful of squirrels can make a meal.
.22lr ammunition is more than sufficient to kill a squirrel, rabbit, or small bird, and you can buy it at 4 cents per cartridge. That means you can get all the meat needed for dinner for 20-30 cents. Excluding food stamps, where else can you get meat so cheaply?
There is another issue with hunting, which I mentioned elsewhere: overpopulation. In many places in America, there are so many deer that they are considered a nuisance species. I live in an area where there are more deer today than there were when Europeans first arrived on this continent. Hunting deer is a form of population control and the limits on how many deer can be taken are set to meet those goals.
Yes, controlling the deer population is important. Deer cause a lot of property damage, and that problem is worsened as the deer population increases.