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Skriven 2008-07-14 20:03:56 av MANNY ROTHSTEIN (1:123/140)
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Ärende: RE: MAGPIES & CROWS 80709
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-> My father may have been the role model for 
-> the movie the Great Santini, but on some points

I've seen it.

-> he made sense to me. One was "you hunt it, you 
-> respect it, and you kill it to eat it" Anne doesn't 

That attitude seems to be widespread on the West Coast,
especially amongst old timers. Was your dad from pioneer
stock?

-> like game, back when I was in College I knocked 
-> down a big honkin Elk...and had to eat the thing all
-> by myself...I never really could hunt for the "sport"
-> of it. If I'm going to shoot it, I plan on eating it.

In Europe, the hunting and the meat possession are two separate
things. The average person pays to hunt on private land and
the land owner gets the meat and the hunter gets the hide
and horns. The meat usually gets sold at market, though the
hunter can buy some of his kill by the kilo. Hunting strictly 
for the table is a moral position, like not having sex until
you are married, but I think that there are other moral points 
of view on that subject. Coincidently, I am now reading a 
memoir written by a woman that grow up in a polygamist 
splinter group. In her sect, sex was only considered proper 
when it was done strictly for procreation. Sex between a 
husband and wife during pregnancy or after menopause was 
considered adultery. "Different strokes..." I guess you 
might say. By the way, her brother-in-law was 
Ervil Labaron.

-> when that poses a logistical problem...I gave up
-> hunting. I still every so often get a gift of game
-> from friends (not so much anymore though) and 
-> I don't have to figure out what to do with all 
-> the meat that my wife won't eat. 

I've never had a problem with finding rural people 
who weren't tickled pink to get some free wild 
game that was properly cared for. I hope your
wife appreciates how good you are to her.

Manny
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