Can you be pro-life and shoot a deer?

[angus]

What's the difference between eating a pig killed in a factory and shooting a deer?

pig's tasty.  deer's a bit gamey for my taste.  big difference, imho.

the latter needs a much heartier Petit Syrah to wash it down.

(you'd have to ask a Scot or an Appalachian about any other differences)

[angus]

What's the difference between eating a pig killed in a factory and shooting a deer?

pig's tasty.  deer's a bit gamey for my taste.  big difference, imho.

the latter needs a much heartier Petit Syrah to wash it down.

(you'd have to ask a Scot or an Appalachian about any other differences)

ever had wild boar?
it's twice as good as normal pig.

oooh, not yet.  But it sounds intriguing.  Haven't had primate either.  had antelope.  that's tasty.   llama and alpaca, too.  alpaca is tender and tasty.  llama isn't.  I generally restrict my diet to vegetarians.  Mammalian carnivores I've tasted are nasty.  That said, snails gorged on raw meat are generally tastier than those fed on other foodstuffs.  In any fine restaurants, your waiter should be able to tell you about the previous diet of the escargot, or any item on their menu.  Their diet makes all the difference.  Still, I'd probably give wild boar a go if the opportunity arises.  I think we went through all the fishes in another thread.  No need to repeat it here.

Seems to me that if you're ever in a situation where it looks like you'll have to resort to eating humans, like in that movie "Alive," find out who the vegetarians are before people start to die off.  They'll be the ones to eat.  Also, find out who smokes and who doesn't, who drinks too much alcohol and who doesn't, etc.  These factors all influence the taste.

Wonder if you can get farm-raised corn-fed deer?  That'd be tasty, I bet.

[angus]

I don't see why not.  To many people, there is a big difference between killing an animal and killing a baby.  Personally, I wouldn't do either.

what is the difference. it is a life?

A carrot is alive too.

Not after I get through with them they're not. 

carrots are tasty too.  you see, we're learning something.  all these "tasty" things are apparently okay to kill, presumably based on the fact that they're so damned tasty.  Soya beans, pigs, carrots, alpaca, green beans, antelope, tomatos, cows, etc.  These things are all delicious.  Deer, presumably, is delicious to some folks as well.  Just like turnips are delicious.  (To some people.)  So it's okay to kill them.  Being delicious is like having a sign on your back that says, "Eat me!"  Burdock root, on the other hand, is nasty.  And the only people I know who eat them are the tree-hugging vegan types.  sick bastards.  Why do they pretend to like that stuff?  And, moreover, how can they justify killing the Burdock plants since it clearly isn't tasty? 

Here is a beautiful Burdock Flower.  How can those insensitive vegetarian bastards eat these helpless life forms?

[angus]

you see, we're learning something.  all these "tasty" things are apparently okay to kill, presumably based on the fact that they're so damned tasty.  Soya beans, pigs, carrots, alpaca, green beans, antelope, tomatos, cows, etc.  These things are all delicious.

A Hindu might take exception to the cows, and a Jew or Muslim to the pigs.

or a Scot to the sheep. 



Rome week.  Night Three:  Caesar.

The acquisition of Gaul.   

[angus]

Loire River valley.  circa 52 BC.  not looking good for the Empire at the moment.  Caesar's boys are hemmed in by the gaul tribesmen.  Let's see if Versingetorix and his proto-keltic band of back-country rednecks can push caesar out of the valley.  (my money's on rome!)

are you into this?  History channel, prime time all week.  They're marketing a series of fascinating documentaries and mini-dramas called "When in Rome week"  Tonight at 10 CDT (11 EDT) there'll be one about Rome, They New York of their time.  Very well documented.  Scholarly.  you have to put up with lots of folks with that grating British accent, but it's not too bad.  After all, there's more interest in Rome in the universities of Engand than here.  Good stuff, though.


screw it.  the bastard's dead now anyway.