Is there anything someone can say to a meat eater who hates hunting?

[Venom1920]

Here's a bit of an awkward situation for you guys. I know a family who eats meat like me and most other people out there. They buy beef, pork, chicken, and fish from the grocery store, also like most other people.

But, they also think hunting is terrible. And I don't just mean they personally don't like hunting, or don't want to hunt, they actually think it's unbelievably cruel and look down on everyone who does it. I just don't understand how people who buy and eat meat can have such a low opinion of people who just happen to like going out and getting their meat the old fashioned way.

I have politely given them all the facts on how most hunters are respectful and use all the meat, how many hunters live in areas where it is a practical form of either income (selling meat to butchers) or acquiring food, how it is much more humane to kill and eat a wild animal that it is to pay someone to kill and butcher an animal that was stuck on a farm, and how it can help the environment by maintaining a balanced ecosystem, especially in places with no natural predators.

But, regardless of what I say, they're still fixated on the idea that hunting is terrible and there's never an excuse to kill an animal. Quite cowardly if you ask me, considering they have no problem paying for meat that someone else killed for them.

 

[giant yetti]

they don't mind that the animal they're eating was fed roids, walked up to a conveyor belt to have a re-useable steal bold shoved into it's skull?

 

[Venom1920]

No they seem to be the head in the sand types where as long as they're not associated with it, they can detach themselves from it, even if they are indirectly responsible.

 

[Rutger]

Picket outside their house and splash them with red paint when they try to enter or exit.

 

[kamlooky]

Now you know where the term.......you can't fix stupid............could originate from.
Maybe they are just too darn lazy to sweat a bead to get it fresh on the hoof.

 

[doublelung]

There's always gonna be hypocrites like that... Tell them when they lose their jobs, get injured, can't afford food, the power grid goes down, their freezers are empty etc,etc, to please respect the sign on your door that states NOT WELCOME when your in your backyard cooking up some delicious backstraps....


DL

 

[mcpiper]

I always tell these idiots two things.
1. Only two types of people don't believe in hunting, vegetarians and hypocrits

2. It's amazing the sense of superiority one gets from paying some poor slob $10.00 an hour to hit your dinner in the head with a sledgehammer so you can buy it all nice and clean at WalMart without getting any blood on your hands or seeing it die..

 

[Fall Guy]

Friends who do their 'hunting' from behind a shopping cart in the meat aisle look down their noses at you for doing it yourself?

Obviously the morally superior types.

 

[oopswasthatyourdog?]

No they seem to be the head in the sand types where as long as they're not associated with it, they can detach themselves from it, even if they are indirectly responsible.

There is nothing to do with people like this. Ignore them and put your efforts into bringing a newbie to the range or into the bush instead.

 

[JimboJones]

So they want to do whats best for Bambi eh?

Show them this:

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http://vimeo.com/7899503

I admit this will either shut them up about hunting...

or they will go veg-head.

 

[Otokiak]

Invite them over for a spaghetti dinner ... ... make it with ground moose, deer, elk, what have you ... then when they're done and tell you how delicious it was ... ask them how they like WILD meat.

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

Offer to take them hunting and offer to take them to see meat processing, on your dime, what have they got to loose?

 

[TheTooner]

Here's a bit of an awkward situation for you guys. I know a family who eats meat like me and most other people out there. They buy beef, pork, chicken, and fish from the grocery store, also like most other people.

But, they also think hunting is terrible. And I don't just mean they personally don't like hunting, or don't want to hunt, they actually think it's unbelievably cruel and look down on everyone who does it. I just don't understand how people who buy and eat meat can have such a low opinion of people who just happen to like going out and getting their meat the old fashioned way.

I have politely given them all the facts on how most hunters are respectful and use all the meat, how many hunters live in areas where it is a practical form of either income (selling meat to butchers) or acquiring food, how it is much more humane to kill and eat a wild animal that it is to pay someone to kill and butcher an animal that was stuck on a farm, and how it can help the environment by maintaining a balanced ecosystem, especially in places with no natural predators.

But, regardless of what I say, they're still fixated on the idea that hunting is terrible and there's never an excuse to kill an animal. Quite cowardly if you ask me, considering they have no problem paying for meat that someone else killed for them.

So just keep asking them, why don't they eat their cows, pigs, and chickens alive?

 

[just having some fun]

Ask them where there grand father or great grand father got there meat for the table

tell them they would not be here with out there ancestors hunting

if they lived on a farm they butchered there own meat (or some of it)

not so long ago if you had the space you had a chicken coup

 

[Slooshark1]

Don't waste valuable seconds of your life talking to these ultra-maroons. Find someone who is neutral and can be won over to your way of thinking, which is based on logic and reason and not lunacy.

A wild animal getting it's organs blown out with a high-powered rifle is cruel, but not as much as it exploding on the front of a transport truck, falling through ice and drowning, starving to death because of old age or having it's guts pulled out it's arsehole by wolves while it screams in agony.

 

[IronCanadian]

No helping

There is probably no helping them, if they absolutely refuse to listen to common sense and reason then you are probably banging your head against a very thick wall.

Walk away from them; if you hunt then they already look down on you might as well return the favor.

Otherwise, as someone already mentioned, try to arrange a visit to a big slaughter plant; that should help. That and a trip to a large feed lot, those animals are kept in some of the worst conditions I've ever seen.

 

[CV32]

Invite them to an abbatoir, and if they're still able to stomach it, on a hunting trip.

 

[5440fight]

There is probably no helping them, if they absolutely refuse to listen to common sense and reason then you are probably banging your head against a very thick wall.

Walk away from them; if you hunt then they already look down on you might as well return the favor.

Otherwise, as someone already mentioned, try to arrange a visit to a big slaughter plant; that should help. That and a trip to a large feed lot, those animals are kept in some of the worst conditions I've ever seen.

I agree. There's nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, hell, eat what makes you happy and healthy. I just can't bear ignorance of the facts, and outspoken opinions. I happen to know a pro-hunting vegetarian very well, he thinks game is the only way to eat meat!

 

[dan belisle]

Invite them to an abbatoir, and if they're still able to stomach it, on a hunting trip.

^ This. - dan

 

[Aries-]

ignore them. let them think what they want. you have given them the facts. they ignore it.

you cant have everyone see your way it will never happen.