Now you can worship god while you kill his creatures! ============= Camouflage Bible geared to outdoorsmen Associated Press McCOMB, Miss. - Camouflage is usually meant to conceal something, but in the case of "The Outdoorsman's Holy Bible," it's designed to draw attention. The leather-bound, large-print, New King James version Bible has a camouflage cover. It's a joint effort of Haas Outdoors Inc. in West Point, which produces Mossy Oak camouflage products, and Thomas Nelson Publishers of Nashville. click link above for complete story
I saw Ted Nugent on some show on CNBC the other night. What he says makes sense. You kill what you eat, its gone. With an arrow or bullet its dead in 3 seconds.... You eat Mcdonalds, fast food, even chicken from Kroger or any other supermarket, well these are massed killed chickens. They slit the necks and put them upside down on a hanging thing to let the blood drain and they die a slow painful death... on a mass scale. Some of these chickens dont even make it to the dinner table and are wasted. Anyhow, I know rH eats everything as I do. But I just thought I'd mention that. I dont hunt myself, guns are scary. what to do? anyhow, a camy bible? Yeah thats silly!
Guns are not scary if you are responsible as I am with them. Btw, check out the Beretta cx4 storm, new for 2003 on the website...It is a 9mm carbine that shooting enthusiasts have long been waiting for!...It takes 92fs pistol mags, so you can use 15, 17, and 20 round after market magazines It's probably the closest thing to a MP5 that civilians can get...I know you are thinking, but I had to throw this out since I'm so excited to get one this year!
I thought this would be a good time to mention how much I love venison (and veal), before the vegetarian rants begin... Praying while I hunt would distract from my drinking.
The idea of the noble hunt to feed the family just doesn't swing it anymore, and hunters are their own worst enemies in this regard. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a pickup driving down a National Forest road with two guys in the back sitting in lawn chairs with a cooler between them and guns at the ready to blast anything that moves. (In Utah, you can shoot from the road.) One of my friends who happens to work for a National Forest was on a horseback patrol and actually had his horse shot out from under him by a drunk hunter. Disgusting. While there are some concientious hunters, it seems to me more use it as an excuse to get away from the wife and kids, drink beer with buddies, go nuts on ATVs, and sate their bloodlust. The thing I detest the most is shooting down at a deer that has been baited with a salt lick. They have no natural enemy from above and the whole thing is damned unsporting. Until we get the guts to bring wolves and grizzlies back into some ecosystems, there is a need for hunting. However, instead of taking the best animals, hunters should take the weakest to simulate the culling via natural processes. Failing that, they should take females to cut down on future births. But given a choice, they will always take the best male. Sigh. I really wish more hunters were respectful of the animals, the environment, and themselves.
Baloney. The chickens don't feel anything because they go through an electric shower first which stuns them. Seconds after emerging from the shower, their throats are slit and they bleed out, which takes less than a minute. It's neither slow nor painful.
Good point. What would really be handy would be a camouflage keg! I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've scared off little furry animals with a shiny metal keg.
Actually thats not total bullsh!t, I saw a program on the Public Access channel of a chicken and turkey slaughter ranch. I didnt see the "Electric Shower "(yeah, sounds painless,) but I did see the neck slitting part and then they put them in a large washing machine type of thing that kinda...well it looked like it beat them up, they'd come out the other side a bit softer. Bodies still moving on the conveyer thing hanging them upside down. I dunno its pretty gruesome and the chicken screams sounded pretty horrific. Hey, I eat chicken 5 or 7 times a week. I grew up in farmland south Texas, we killed our own chickens and pigs! I'm just saying, mass killing isn;t as cool and clean and painless as we think...thats why we dont think about it. but Ted nugent does! http://www.tednugent.com
Actually, most hunters I know are extremely respectful and they DO NOT "shoot anything that moves." Like with most other things, there are a few a$$es that ruin something for everyone. Yes, there are a bunch of drunk poachers, but most abide by hunting laws, have a hunting license, and don't shoot over their limit. All of the hunters I know also eat what they shoot, so the animal isn't just there for trophy.
Well, I worked in a chicken processing plant, so I've seen all this stuff first hand. Of course TV shows are going to sensationalize things, but in reality it's actually not that bad. The plant I worked at processed 140-150 birds per minute, so the line was moving pretty fast. The chickens are dead within two minutes after being taken out of the crates; they simply do not have the time to suffer much. And like I said, the eletrocuting shower stuns them. By the time their throats are slit, their senses are pretty much dead. I guess they "conveniently" left out the electrocution bit in the show that you saw to evoke greater emotion from the viewer. The big "washing machine" thing you described sounds like it could be either the scald tank or the chill tank. The birds go through the scald tank to loosen the feathers before entering the plucking machines. The chill tank is where the birds cool off after evisceration. Either way, the birds are quite dead before entering either area (long dead before going into the chill tank). The worst part about the industry from what I saw was how the birds arrive; packed tightly together in plastic crates, about 20 per crate, but even that's not too bad (they can't pack them too tightly because the birds will overheat). TV specials always make things out to be worse than they actually are.
