Essays and Musings on Animals and Society

Friday, February 17, 2006

Dick Cheney: Draft-Dodging Gun Nut 

and other hunters

An ad-hoc thought by Josh, editor of Herbivore Magazine, on the Dick Cheney debacle:

"There's something about this that I've been trying to connect: nobody in the Bush White House went to war in Vietnam or Korea or anywhere actually. They all got out of their service in some way. Yet, they've started two wars and now the Vice President has shot a man in the face.

There's something very strange to me about personally avoiding war...but then starting wars and sending other people to die, and participating in blood sports involving more or less the smallest creatures people hunt (who were raised in cages anyway). Something kinda sick and twisted about this to me."

It's perverse.

Most hunters aren't trained marksmen. How many other clumsy, anxious, or inaccurate hunters are there out there? Or drunk ones, or tired ones, or distracted ones? How many crippling wounds and slow, painful deaths to they cause in the animals they hunt? And how much stress and even grief and terror do they cause in the dead animals' companions? And do they care?


Next: More on the Dick Cheney fiasco...maybe.
Posted by: Gary / 11:56 PM
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