| Sad 😔 18:45 - Sep 21 with 4353 views | gtsb1966 |
The type of people who do this are obviously well off yet chose to spend it on this. It baffles me how their brain works. I honestly thought this might, just might,be banned in this parliament but should've known better. Sickening.
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| Sad 😔 on 20:38 - Sep 21 with 4076 views | MattinLondon |
Taking away the fact that it’s killing for fun - in what way is it hunting? It’s not someone with a spear taking on one of natures biggest predators. It’s someone standing a long long way away killing a lion who has been bred specifically for this.
As you say it’s sickening. |  | | |
| Sad 😔 on 20:39 - Sep 21 with 4069 views | redrickstuhaart |
Completely baffling how this has not already been enacted.
Such an easy thing to do. |  | | |
| Sad 😔 on 22:03 - Sep 21 with 3898 views | Coastalblue |
The fact anybody chooses to hunt like this is baffling enough, but then to bring a stuffed bit of animal back with you? WTF? What do you actually do with it? Surely you don't want anybody seeing it and knowing your dirty little secret? |  |
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| Sad 😔 on 23:06 - Sep 21 with 3764 views | MattinLondon |
| Sad 😔 on 22:03 - Sep 21 by Coastalblue |
The fact anybody chooses to hunt like this is baffling enough, but then to bring a stuffed bit of animal back with you? WTF? What do you actually do with it? Surely you don't want anybody seeing it and knowing your dirty little secret? |
I think that I’m remembering this correctly.
A few years ago it was reported that an American dentist was a ‘hunter’ who displayed his kills at his work. He shot a well-known lion and it caused a major scandal.
So, some people are proud of their hobby and openly display it. | | | |
| Sad 😔 on 23:21 - Sep 21 with 3735 views | Swansea_Blue |
I’m not sure which is more depressing: killing amazing animals for fun or having to force governments to honour manifesto pledges. Probably the former although neither should be happening. |  |
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| Sad 😔 on 23:29 - Sep 21 with 3719 views | mo_itfc |
How is it still acceptable to kill animals for fun in this country?!?! | |
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| Sad 😔 on 07:11 - Sep 22 with 3562 views | BlueNomad |
Despite it being illegal, fox hunting (the killing of mammals with dogs) still takes place on a regular basis in this country. This week there will have been at least three "cubbing" meets in Suffolk. (The season starts on October) The methods used are not suitable for description on a site such as this. The terror those poor animals must feel is horrendous - all for the enjoyment of toffs, wannabe toffs, farm boys and plummy voiced followers..
Then we have birds bred specifically so that people can pay £150 a go to shoot them once they have survived to adulthood. You will currently see them around Suffolk, having been released to fend for themselves.
This, apparently, is "fun" in a developed society. [Post edited 22 Sep 2023 7:15]
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| Sad 😔 on 13:09 - Sep 22 with 3374 views | J2BLUE |
I will never forget a picture I saw a few years ago of a smiling woman holding the neck of a dead giraffe.
Some people have several screws missing, not just loose. |  |
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| Sad 😔 on 13:25 - Sep 22 with 3347 views | Lion |
| Sad 😔 on 07:11 - Sep 22 by BlueNomad |
Despite it being illegal, fox hunting (the killing of mammals with dogs) still takes place on a regular basis in this country. This week there will have been at least three "cubbing" meets in Suffolk. (The season starts on October) The methods used are not suitable for description on a site such as this. The terror those poor animals must feel is horrendous - all for the enjoyment of toffs, wannabe toffs, farm boys and plummy voiced followers..
Then we have birds bred specifically so that people can pay £150 a go to shoot them once they have survived to adulthood. You will currently see them around Suffolk, having been released to fend for themselves.
This, apparently, is "fun" in a developed society. [Post edited 22 Sep 2023 7:15]
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Pheasant is bloody lovely though, at least they are shot and then eaten. I don't shoot myself but when i am given pheasants I prefer them to already be prepared. I had to prepare one myself once, and it was horrible. I am not a vegetarian, but if you could not buy chickens and the like already prepared, I think I would almost certainly be a vegetarian and I think most people would also be vegetarians too.
Fox hunting, bull fighting and the like, i am not down with, and as for shooting a lion 100's of yards away through a scope, just why would you want to do that and what do you get from it? | |
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| Sad 😔 on 17:21 - Sep 22 with 3205 views | noggin |
Rich people, assisted by politicians, also avoid paying taxes, which probably kills people. |  |
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| Sad 😔 on 19:08 - Sep 22 with 3129 views | gtsb1966 |
| Sad 😔 on 17:21 - Sep 22 by noggin |
Rich people, assisted by politicians, also avoid paying taxes, which probably kills people. |
Not really relevant to this thread. | | | |
| Sad 😔 on 19:45 - Sep 22 with 3075 views | Cheese_Sandwich |
| Sad 😔 on 13:25 - Sep 22 by Lion |
Pheasant is bloody lovely though, at least they are shot and then eaten. I don't shoot myself but when i am given pheasants I prefer them to already be prepared. I had to prepare one myself once, and it was horrible. I am not a vegetarian, but if you could not buy chickens and the like already prepared, I think I would almost certainly be a vegetarian and I think most people would also be vegetarians too.
Fox hunting, bull fighting and the like, i am not down with, and as for shooting a lion 100's of yards away through a scope, just why would you want to do that and what do you get from it? |
Trouble with game shooting, like the pheasant there you describe, are bred for the fun and not the food.
The food part is the by-product as it were. There is often so much wastage that a vast number just get turfed into the soil; buried.
I have also prepped fresh pheasant and pigeon and agree it's good food. No doubt about that. But all things considered, being terrorised from your natural habitat (brushing) in order to be killed for fun, or even possibly worse, being bred in cages and then transported there to then wander about bewildered in what pretends to be your actual habitat until then being terrorised and killed...
I'd opt for being bred and then killed humanely over that I think.*
*Yes I know there are still places to this day who don't follow the guidelines we like to think and all that. Just throwing it in there. [Post edited 22 Sep 2023 20:41]
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| Sad 😔 on 21:24 - Sep 22 with 2980 views | Sharkey |
Until now, I'd always been vaguely pro-House of Lords, thinking they block some very Daily Mail-ish knee-jerk bills. |  | | |
| Sad 😔 on 13:40 - Sep 23 with 2725 views | eireblue |
| Sad 😔 on 23:29 - Sep 21 by mo_itfc |
How is it still acceptable to kill animals for fun in this country?!?! |
A lot of people tell me they couldn’t give up meat since they enjoy it so much.
Lots of animals are killed for human pleasure. |  | | |
| Sad 😔 on 11:23 - Sep 25 with 2483 views | Lion |
| Sad 😔 on 19:45 - Sep 22 by Cheese_Sandwich |
Trouble with game shooting, like the pheasant there you describe, are bred for the fun and not the food.
The food part is the by-product as it were. There is often so much wastage that a vast number just get turfed into the soil; buried.
I have also prepped fresh pheasant and pigeon and agree it's good food. No doubt about that. But all things considered, being terrorised from your natural habitat (brushing) in order to be killed for fun, or even possibly worse, being bred in cages and then transported there to then wander about bewildered in what pretends to be your actual habitat until then being terrorised and killed...
I'd opt for being bred and then killed humanely over that I think.*
*Yes I know there are still places to this day who don't follow the guidelines we like to think and all that. Just throwing it in there. [Post edited 22 Sep 2023 20:41]
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Yeah, fair comment. As a Suffolk boy, whilst I am definitely against fox hunting, I'm a little torn about the pheasant shooting as it keeps a lot of people employed in rural areas. I am ok with the idea of them being shot for food, and I understand the 'sport' part about shooting, but a little uneasy about just a small percentage of them being used for food and the rest being chucked, which I hadn't really considered. You would have thought that all the presentable / aesthetically pleasing pheasants would be prepared for human consumption, and the rest would be minced up for dog food. I guess some of the shoots do this, but you have opened my eyes that maybe this doesnt happen at the larger commercial shoots... | |
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| Sad 😔 on 13:37 - Sep 25 with 2288 views | J2BLUE |
| Sad 😔 on 13:40 - Sep 23 by eireblue |
A lot of people tell me they couldn’t give up meat since they enjoy it so much.
Lots of animals are killed for human pleasure. |
It is a golden age for vegan food at the moment as well. | |
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| Sad 😔 on 14:39 - Sep 25 with 2193 views | BlueNomad |
This morning a hunt went out "cubbing" in Suffolk. A small deer was chased to exhaustion and mauled. The hunt were indifferent to it's injuries, and subsequent death, passing it off as an accident.
What a fun outing................... | | | |
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