Hunting

I saw this news headline today:

Americans turn to hunting amid fears of coronavirus food shortages

(Eye-roll)

I’m sure that’s the reason they’re hunting: all the grocery stores are out of food. Even H-E-B. These Americans are not hunting because they enjoy it. To the contrary, they have no choice but to hunt or starve.

Not! The stores have plenty of food, but even if all the stores were out of meat, people wouldn’t starve. Vegetarianism has been around a very long time and is reputed to be quite healthy.

What we have here are people who feel the need to justify inflicting fear, pain, and death on animals, and a reporter who is trying to spice up what is otherwise a non-story.

If you want to hunt, then okay, go hunt. Go fish. But don’t pretend your survival depends on it. Your sirloin may depend on it, but not your life.