This poor fella was killed in a hunt yesterday at 10am on Ted Turner's ranch just south of Truth or Consequences. We were lucky enough to get "the call" that the meat was being cut and readied for the freezer (or the table). It's pretty wild to obtain protein in this way. When Mikey and I moved to New Mexico we were not meat eaters. However, with one of these kills a year being provided by the guy who's put more energy into repopulating the grasslands with Bison than probably anyone on earth, I found no excuse not to eat it. This particular Bison lived a free life out on hundreds of thousands of acres eating only what nature provides. These hunts in which meat is provided to members of our community take place only approximately annually. That's in match for our pace for meat eating. Sesame was lucky enough to get a big bucket of scraps that will surely last a couple of weeks. She could barely contain herself when I brought her over with me to pick up the goods.
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I certainly agree there are gradients in how humans treat animals. However, the fact that an animal ate "what nature provides" or lived a free life is no consolation to the thinking, feeling animal who was slaughtered for their flesh. What about the children she was stolen from? She no doubt had a family.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that this very different than raising animals in factory farms and killing them in violent slaughterhouses, but killing animals for food is still unnecessary and cruel. In this day-in-age we simply do not need to eat animals.
It is true that meat may not be entirely 100% necessary for humans to get protein and fat from, but for the time being our bodies still do need the nutrients it provides. Maybe over the course of the next million years or so we will evolve as a species and not have to eat meat any more, by that time our bodies will have changed enough where we can be completely omnivorous. But that is a long ways away, and I hunt to provide food for my wife and I, its food that doesn't come wrapped in plastic on top of a styrofoam thing from the grocery store.
The dear I shot a couple weeks ago was killed very humanely. It was a larger, older buck that had seen plenty of years and was able to rut enough to continue his legacy. My bullet killed it instantly, it went through both lungs and the heart and the animal fell over dead immediately so there was no suffering. That is the kind of shot that is considered to be perfect by hunters.
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