Warning: if you are a hunter, or like hunters, or hunting, you may not want to read this.
I was driving home today from my violin lesson behind a truck pulling a horse trailer. The back of the truck was covered in deer carcasses. The heads were whole, marbel eyes glossed over, anters climbing into the air, but the bodies were gutted. The meat was scraped out, and all I could see was a bloody mess of broken ribs and legs. The blood wasn't really what I think of as blood-colored- it was a pink, smeared against the white bone.
I felt like my stomach was crawling up my throat in acidic hitches, trickling towards my mouth. It made me feel so sick and so sad, just those empty deer with the whole heads. Then I was really angry that this idiot was driving around with these ravaged deer in plain sight. Does he think little kids want to see that? I reacted to it very badly now; I can't imagine what I would have done years ago. I still remember one time in gradeschool when the car in front of us hit a deer. I cried a lot.
WHY IN THE WORLD DO PEOPLE THINK IT'S FUN TO KILL HELPLESS ANIMALS THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW THEY'RE THERE??!!! Yeah, sure, that's really brave, creeping up behind some beautiful creature, so quiet it can't hear you, and putting a bullet through its heart. What's fun about that? What's glorious in that? It just seems like slaughter to me.
I don't really like the slaughtering of cows that goes on for the meat industry, that upsets me too, but hunting upsets me more, because people do it for fun, and I don't think many ranchers really enjoy killing their cows, or try to sneak up behind them and shoot them.
I could never watch the life leaving a creature's eyes and know it was me. I don't believe in killing anything- not spiders, not box elder bugs, not deer, not people. I don't understand how people can enjoy that so much. What sort of machoism can you get? It's so cowardly.
It makes me very mad. It always has. I could never be proud of shooting something. I could never be proud of violence.
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That sounds like an absolutely stomach-turning sight. You know, I'm a pretty conservative person in general, even politically, but I DO NOT understand the fun in trying to kill someething, just for fun!! I would never go hunting.
"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it." ~Abraham Lincoln
Lindsay, if you keep living with the attitude in this post, the world will be better for your having lived in it.
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