{"id":33850,"date":"2018-11-27T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33850"},"modified":"2018-11-27T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:51:58","slug":"oh-how-i-hate-trophy-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33850","title":{"rendered":"Oh, how I hate trophy hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not a hunter. Yes, I’ve gone hunting a time or two in my life. It’s not my bag, man.<\/p>\n

Having declared that, I want to add that I detest<\/em> trophy hunting, the idea of going into the wild and killing animals for the purpose of displaying their stuffed carcasses as trophies.<\/p>\n

A social media acquaintance of mine has been posting pictures of trophy hunters that show up on my Facebook timeline. I won’t reproduce them here, because they disgust me in the extreme.<\/p>\n

I just feel the need to vent for a moment about the ridiculousness of shooting big game, depriving Mother Nature of a prized creature and then displaying the remains in one’s “game room,” or “trophy room” or even in one’s living room.<\/p>\n

Although I do not hunt wild animals, I do understand the idea of hunting them for, say, food. Deer provide venison. Elk can be consumed as well. I once had a stew prepared with black bear meat; it was quite tasty, if you want to know the truth.<\/p>\n

However, I cannot pull the trigger on those creatures.<\/p>\n

I especially cannot do so when it involves an animal I won’t eat at the dinner table.<\/p>\n

Thus, trophy hunting disgusts me. So do the pictures I keep seeing of those hunters and their sh**-eatin’ grins sitting behind one of God’s magnificent creatures.<\/p>\n

If you are a trophy hunter and you take offense at my remarks . . . that’s just too damn bad.<\/p>\n\n

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