There are a number of FANTASTIC reasons to harvest your own food, particularly if its green foods. You know. PLANT STUFF!!!
- You get to learn how to grow stuff!
- You can make sure that you aren't ingesting anything unnatural!
- You get to be self-reliant!
- Its probably less expensive in the long run!
Having had parents who like to grow their own foods in the past, I've tried home grown greens first hand and they are definitely better than any frozen foods you might buy in the grocery store. And you don't need to wash them off or anything! Right? Right. Well, you might want to do that just to be safe, but I didn't.
My father was known to grow tons of corn and tomatoes, and my mother loves to grow strawberries. This home grown produce has always been much more flavorful than that at the store, and that's all that honestly counts, right? Right - that thing.
Now, you're probably asking, "Greens? But what about meat and dairy products?" am I right?
Well, there is nothing but downside after downside to producing THOSE goods on your own.
- Animal shit.
- Buying animal food.
- Owning pasture land.
- Getting too attached.
- And let's not forget the animal sex farms we've all been hearing about.
Lets not even open that Pandora's box.
As I mentioned, spending so much time, money, and effort on an animal causes one to naturally become attached to it - as it is the product of your great work. Myself, I would feel pretty hesitant about essentially killing an animal, eating it, and promptly transforming it into shit through my bowels in a matter of hours after having spent MONTHS, maybe even YEARS, raising it.
With such an efficient mass animal genocide killing machine working behind the scenes to easily produce meat and dairy products for us in the grocery store at all times, that has spent decades building the harvest population of various animals for our consumption, why go to so much trouble to achieve the same thing at such a higher cost?
In response to The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine and The Urban Deerslayer... I think that the italicization and bold facing of the fonts on this site is completely dildos.
Okay, now that we’re typing this out in Word for the sake of not looking like a type-face illiterate, 12 year old, YouTube commenting juggalo…
In response to the aforementioned works, I think that both of them are ridiculous and unnecessary considering my previous comment about how harvesting your own live stalk or dairy products is obsolete.
The only reason to hunt, raise, or have sex with animals is for posterity, being an inexplicable and insatiable fetishist, or “quality time” with your family. Let us pray that no one has the audacity to mix any of those together.
[Of course, all of this is true assuming that you’re an urban dwelling middle to upper class American like everyone else in my Library research class.]
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Your opposition to hunting is understandable. But it seems as though you have not taken into consideration any of the arguments either of the articles mentioned. For example the argument that hunting can leave a smaller carbon footprint when done in your own back yard, there are zero miles put into the transportation of the animal. Or the idea that when hunting an animal you are not helping to perpetuate the cycle of poor large scale agricultural methods; the wild animal you kill can not get any more free range.
ReplyDeleteTeri, I like the point you make; that in opposing hunting you are not helping to perpetuate the cycle of poor large scale agricultural methods; the wild animal you can kill can not get anymore free. At the same time, I see the other side. That just because someone hunts recreationally doesn't mean they aren't supported monocultural agricultural. I mean, you still need grains, cereals, like corn and wheat, which come from monoculture; even commercial organic is guilty of this to some extent. Hunting is not an end all to destructive farming practices. And, I hate to play devil's advocate, but without green revolution farming techniques there would be way more starvation in the world. Organic farming and hunter gathering can not feed 6 billion people.
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