Random Ramble

[michaelboy]

The first week of this month and this weekend were deer hunting gun season days here in Ohio. There are also deer archery hunting days that run for a few months in the fall and winter.

While I understand the right to hunt and understanding that this method is probably more humane than what transpires in most factory farms, it is still difficult for me.

Being a vegetarian for over five decades, I know that animals perish even in the fruit, vegetable and dairy industries, so I'm not completely separate from animal demise in the production of food.

During last year's hunting season, the buck who I called "Fuzz Head" and that was the son of "Star", perished. I haven't seen Star for a few weeks now and I'm afraid she is gone now too.

She bore four sets of beautiful fawns and I had grown quite attached to her. Yes, she was a wild animal but still... if she is gone, I am going to miss her and her pretty face a whole lot.



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While many enjoy it, I just cannot find a way to like any of the music produced by The Trans Siberian Orchestra. It just seems so over-produced, synthetic, and migraine inducing. Maybe I'm just getting to be a cranky old man.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

In nature, prey animals need to be eaten, or else they overgraze their habitat and starve -- which has happened with deer and is very sad to see. This job used to be done by bears, wolves, cougars, etc. Humans eradicated those predators from most parts of America. So now, either humans do that job or it doesn't get done, and when it doesn't get done, nobody's happy -- not the trees or the deer or the humans. That sucks.

It could be fixed by restoring the natural predator-prey balance in some areas. There's plenty of wilderness missing its apex. But that's not so feasible in areas with high human population. We're left with an awkward mishmash of hunters in some places, way too many deer in others, and people complaining about the overpopulation of deer. That part doesn't have easy solutions.