All good fun?

[ColinEssex]

Actually there is a ICD9 code for Paranoid State. 297.9 and/or 297.0. So, I guess there is such an affliction.

Selena, I'm impressed with your knowledge of the ICD9 - do you not use the latest ICD10?

Col

 

[ColinEssex]

What about the Norwegians, why do you leave them out of it?

They don't speak English

Not many foreigners do they usually speak some weird form of what they think is English.

Col

 

[jsanders]

Colin,

You quoted me duping Rich but you didn’t comment on my statement about the effectiveness of the club method.

Why is that?

 

[ColinEssex]

Colin,

You quoted me duping Rich but you didn’t comment on my statement about the effectiveness of the club method.

Why is that?

The clubbing method is fairly effective, I wasn't denying it, it doesn't always work but neither does shooting a pig at point blank range apparently (ref Kens grandfather I think it was). It's barbaric and its a shame in the 21st century we (the human race) still resort to stoneage methods to kill seals. (thats my opinion anyway)

Hmmmm (thinks) do I need to prove we're in the 21st century with a link?. . . . . Maybe I'll get away with it

Col

 

[Rich]

I understand that culls need to take place, there was one here a few years back about badgers.


Col

There is still a great deal of controversy over that too, in particular whether the badger is resposible for carrying and spreading TB in the first place and of course here the badgers were put to sleep humanely, not by yobs armed with clubs.
The fact is that seals are hunted for purely commercial reasons despite all the supposed evidence to the contrary

 

[jsanders]

There is still a great deal of controversy over that too, in particular whether the badger is resposible for carrying and spreading TB in the first place and of course here the badgers were put to sleep humanely, not by yobs armed with clubs.
The fact is that seals are hunted for purely commercial reasons despite all the supposed evidence to the contrary

Maybe Rich,

But there is overwhelming evidence that species do better with calculated culling.

 

[Rich]

Maybe Rich,

But there is overwhelming evidence that species do better with calculated culling.

Does that include man, after all, he's the biggest threat to this planet ?

 

[jsanders]

Does that include man, after all, he's the biggest threat to this planet ?

We are so way past that. We will see a huge human die off in our life time.

 

[ColinEssex]

Does that include man, after all, he's the biggest threat to this planet ?

Bush is doing that - 25,000+ Iraqi's dead and 2,300+ US soldiers dead

Col

 

[KenHigg]

So why do you all have a problem with the fact that the deer population in the US (and in the UK) needs to be systematically culled?

 

[Rich]

So why do you all have a problem with the fact that the deer population in the US (and in the UK) needs to be systematically culled?

We don't in this instance, it's the methods employed that we have issues with

 

[KenHigg]

We don't in this instance, it's the methods employed that we have issues with

So you really don't have a problem with me killing a deer as long as it suffers as little as possible and it is providing food for me and my family?

 

[Rich]

So you really don't have a problem with me killing a deer as long as it suffers as little as possible and it is providing food for me and my family?

You don't need to hunt for food to provide for your family

 

[lmnop7854]

So why do you all have a problem with the fact that the deer population in the US (and in the UK) needs to be systematically culled?

Personally, my only problem with this fact is how it came about. The reason why we have to "bait and shoot" and all that crap is because the virus called humanity doesn't live within the limits of the rest of nature. It completely overtakes anything and everything in its path, destroying the habitats of all other creatures for its own benefit. Until the deer have nowhere to live, and then have to be killed because they pose a threat to human drivers. I got a real problem with that. Don't have a solution, but I don't like the way it has turned out.

Lisa

 

[KenHigg]

You don't need to hunt for food to provide for your family

True. But the deer population does need to be managed. How would you suggest that happen?

 

[lmnop7854]

True. But the deer population does need to be managed. How would you suggest that happen?

Let me add to my previous post - I have no problem with responsible hunters who use every part of the animal, and there is no waste. I am opposed to the weekend warriors who shoot for sport. And all the stuff I said previously still applies.

Lisa

 

[KenHigg]

Let me add to my previous post - I have no problem with responsible hunters who use every part of the animal, and there is no waste. I am opposed to the weekend warriors who shoot for sport. And all the stuff I said previously still applies.

Lisa

Then I guess it's a really appalling fact to you that we hunt the re-introduced, current white-tail variety of deer that we established several decades ago after the native species were all but wiped out... ?

 

[lmnop7854]

Then I guess it's a really appalling fact to you that we hunt the re-introduced, current white-tail variety of deer that we established several decades ago after the native species were all but wiped out... ?

Not really appalling, but re-introducing species also concerns me. This is an attempt to fix a mistake, or play God. First, we botched up natuer enough to kill them all off. And obviously, we have done such a swell job of re-introducing them, that we now have to kill them to manage their population. Why? Because they run into the road and kill us? To an extent, that is the natural order of things. Kind of like payback.

Lisa

 

[dan-cat]

Until the deer have nowhere to live, and then have to be killed because they pose a threat to human drivers. I got a real problem with that. Don't have a solution, but I don't like the way it has turned out.

I can't speak for where you live but deer hunting seasons are strictly enforced in our community. Hunting season amounts to approx 2 months in the year and not all of this time are you allowed to use a gun. They also have miles upon miles of habitat to live in and a bunch of friendly rangers who make sure no-one is breaking the law. I should know - I get to watch the rangers chase four-wheelers speed past my house in the middle of the night.

 

[dan-cat]

To bring this thread back in line - not easy with so many paranoid people about.

Bush is doing that - 25,000+ Iraqi's dead and 2,300+ US soldiers dead

That didn't take long did it?