You've just shot yourself in the foot.
You say you enjoy fieldsports. So you enjoy going out and killing an animal for sport. Doesn't matter what you do with it afterwards to make yourself think you're being all countryfied and conservational. Killing something because your hungry and killing something for sport are two totally different things. I'm a vegetarian but if I was starving and had to kill an animal to feed myself then I would. I wouldn't get any enjoyment from it but I would do it to stay alive.

Your just trying to absolve yourself from the fact that you enjoy killing something.
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:07, 2 replies)

Of course I enjoy it
otherwise I would buy my poultry from adsa. But I also enjoy the fact that I don't need to support the battery hen industry.
(Sir General ***WoW***, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:13, closed)

But to call it a sport is somewhat disgusting.
Don't you think?


I don't think anyone should enjoy killing something. Serial killers are the exeption.
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:16, closed)

A moot point, for sure
But one unrelated to m'colleague's complaint about hypocrisy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:21, closed)

Yes but....
I hate seeing people trying to make excuses for something which is intrinsically a shitty thing to get enjoyment from.

I'm very wary of people who get enjoyment from taking somethings life.
( girlinthehole, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:27, closed)

I suppose
It is a 'sport' in the same way that fishing is a sport.

It is not the killing of an animal that I enjoy, it is the fact I am with good friends, in beautiful countryside, having a few drinks looking forward to cooking whatever I shoot.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:23, closed)

Why not enjoy it?
After all, any sign of compassion toward your next meal may cause you to go hungry.
Enjoying and making a sport of catching your own food, makes it all the better - in ability/skill and taste.
Plus the young man makes his point in boycotting the mass-processing market, albeit a small dent, benefits from a clear conscience and... tastier food.

Moot point is people cooking their meals - the ones who enjoy it, cook the tastiest!

What's to say the food-to-be doesn't enjoy the thrill of the chase?
(FunOnABun Smears lard on you!, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:01, closed)

I shoot as well tbh.
To be honest, the poster is being far more morally honest than someone who buys their meat from the supermarket. At least they're facing up to the fact that for the fact that something dies when they eat meat, rather than complaining about them enjoying 'killing stuff'. Hence the hipocrisy.
(Teiresias, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 21:08, closed)

Hmmmm
I think the chap's point is that eating supermarket meat and then criticising someone for being 'cruel to animals' because they go shooting is ridiculous.

It surely is, no?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:15, closed)