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Harvest is a no nonsense word for responsibility. So no I did not kill because just a deer in the woods. Now, can agree it might make people wannabe killers based on other comments here, but in reality not killers. Sorry for not being in the "wannabe" crowd.
Fruits and vegetables are harvested. Game animals are killed. No need to sugar coat it, in my opinion.
Quote from: furiouzgeorge on October 29, 2013, 12:40:35 AMYour a deer slayer / killer / life ender / smiter...i.e. I hope you get the point. You killed it. It's 'life blood' was drained BECAUSE YOU POKED IT REALLY HARD WITH AN ARROW OR BULLET. It didn't say, "oh how awesome I'm being harvested!" It probably bleated...pumped...tried to scamper off, fell over, bled out, and died. You killed it!!!!! Killer!!!!!!! And most important of all, it's OK. Good job! Congratulations! We are not harvesters...I don't farm deer. I seek to deprive them of their life and habitat...err, change their habitat to resemble my freezer. I don't save their seeds...yuk...I don't replant for next year...I'm a killer, and am totally comfortable with that. Man up, enjoy the meat, or drop it off at my house and swear off hunting...er, killing! Either way...no more of this nonsense... Harvest is a no nonsense word for responsibility. So no I did not kill because just a deer in the woods. Now, can agree it might make people wannabe killers based on other comments here, but in reality not killers. Sorry for not being in the "wannabe" crowd.
Your a deer slayer / killer / life ender / smiter...i.e. I hope you get the point. You killed it. It's 'life blood' was drained BECAUSE YOU POKED IT REALLY HARD WITH AN ARROW OR BULLET. It didn't say, "oh how awesome I'm being harvested!" It probably bleated...pumped...tried to scamper off, fell over, bled out, and died. You killed it!!!!! Killer!!!!!!! And most important of all, it's OK. Good job! Congratulations! We are not harvesters...I don't farm deer. I seek to deprive them of their life and habitat...err, change their habitat to resemble my freezer. I don't save their seeds...yuk...I don't replant for next year...I'm a killer, and am totally comfortable with that. Man up, enjoy the meat, or drop it off at my house and swear off hunting...er, killing! Either way...no more of this nonsense...
You do realize also that they kill cows pigs sheep goats etc for the grocery bins? When you take an animal to the slaughter house they first go to the kill pens, thats the penning area they are in prior to being shot in the head with a bolt, a gun, or in a kosher or halal establishment they have the neck slit open with a knife thats been blessed. I do not know of any form of meat that can become food that hasn't undergone being killed. When we try to use words we think are kinder and gentler we simply remove ourselves from the entire realm of death which displaces us from understanding and valuing life. When I hear people say people no longer value life I think its because they have sheltered themselves and sugar coated death. call it whatever you want but you still have killed an animal.