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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Defenseless Animals? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 00:38:27 EST
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tekcad!franka    Dec 10 21:38:00 1983

/***** tekcad:net.flame / ncsu!mauney /  7:08 pm  Dec 10, 1983*/
(1) Hunting a deer may be less cruel than letting it starve,  and less cruel
than raising a steer in a pen and slaughtering it,  but the raising and killing
cattle is done for the necessity of human nutrition and for the esthetics of
food.  Hunting is done for the sport of killing.  Therefore there is a great
difference in viewpoint,  even if there is no difference in the result.

Not that I want to ban hunting.  But I object to claims that there is any
purpose to it beyond the fun of going out and killing Bambi.

				      Jon Mauney
				      ncsu!mauney
/* ---------- */

	Have you ever tasted vennison, Mr. Mauney? I have and I like it.
And I can tell you that beef does not taste the same. I hunt to obtain the
esthetics in food of vennison.  As soon as you get a group of deer to breed
in captivity to provide vennison steaks for humankind's benefit, I will agree
to stop hunting for this reason. The same goes for squirrel and quail. I have
stopped hunting rabbits because I can obtain them commercially. One can provide
other sources of protein besides commercially bred beef, poultry, etc. But I
assume you still eat those poor defenseless animals, so I guess your tastes
dictate your morality. And if you allow yourself that luxury, please allow me
the same.

               				From the truly menacing,
   /- -\       				but usually underestimated,
    <->        				Frank Adrian
               				(tektronix!tekcad!franka)