Vegans and shooting

[tinbum]

Please note the “and”. Vegans AND shooting!

Last week I got a call from a local guy I knew who had trapped a coypu by his fishing lake. He wanted me to come over and break a hat in it’s bottom!

I went over, performed the aforementioned task, and conversation quickly went in a fishing direction. He has stocked his lake with carp, there’s plenty of roach, perch etc, and another guy has asked if he wants to go over and catch/remove the bream that have filled his lake!
He bought the house as he’d always wanted a fishing lake, did I fish? Come over anytime you want, I enjoy the company.

The only problem he has is the large number of copyu that come up from the local streams and undermine the banks of his lake. We chatted a little more which has ended up with me supplying him something to help control them. I then told him I had a great recipe for a pate you can make with the saddle meat.

”Oh no” he says “My wife and I are vegan, have been for five years now”.

I saw no hint of humour or leg-pulling in his face and pointed at the rather large carcass at our feet.

”Well I’m not going to eat it, am I?”

It takes allsorts.

[Murphy]

So his wife is vegan, and he probably goes to McDonald's when she is not there.

[MartynB]

So his wife is vegan, and he probably goes to McDonald's when she is not there.

[rapidresponse1]

ha ha macdonalds

[Segata]

If my Mrs said Go Vegan I'd say you go elsewhere, fortunately based on the massive leg of Lamb she just brought things are good.

Does seem a little hipogritical to condone a pest kill but see yourself absolved because you didn't pull the trigger doesn't it, still each to their own and all the more for the Tinbum kitchen.

My mindset has always been if you must kill then use as much of the animal as you sfaely can, never just kill it for one thing and waste the rest, only exception being things like Rats out of diesease prevention however if I had an Animal that was safe to eat them I'd use it for pet food.

[flyingfish]

I only eat vegan food

I.e. my food is vegan

[angrybear]

Well they're an invasive species so doing damage to his property, so I don't find anything particularly Hypocritical in his trying to remove them

Better than the sort of pink fluffy idiots we have, that would see them run wild with no controls because they're "furry ikkle aminals"

[ToniD]

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My mindset has always been if you must kill then use as much of the animal as you sfaely can, never just kill it for one thing and waste the rest, only exception being things like Rats out of diesease prevention however if I had an Animal that was safe to eat them I'd use it for pet food.[/QUOTE]

I agree completely, but what astonishes me is that seagulls, the rats of the seaside, are protected. They sh*t everywhere, at breeding time they attack everyone. At our allotment they would peck holes in poly tunnels. I'm not a violent man, but, I couldn't eat one

[Muskett]

What can a vegan do with Peter Rabbit?


...starve.

Man made environment and lifestyle choices. Still needs management. There is a lot of waste to provide a vegan lifestyle, including plastic alternatives, fertilisers, and insecticides.
I should think a naked vegan would need a warmer greener world. Certainly not a cold, dry, CO2 deplete, one.

[Gerry B]

So his wife is vegan, and he probably goes to McDonald's when she is not there.

My brother, his "partner" is a trendy t@rt, into everything fashionable !!!

So , he's not allowed to eat any meat !!!

However, when he visits me, like all Saffa's, he hangs around the braai fire, helping himself to generous chunks of boerewors, while his memsahib is inside trying to dictate proceedings there !!!

Then when food is done, he goes inside and eats his veggie sausages with looong teeth !!!

My kids, my g/f and I have a great chuckle about this !!!

My brother, a 6 foot 5 man, is being directed what he is allowed to eat by a 5 foot something specimen .

I'm guessing he eats decent food when ever he is out at work .

Different strokes for different folks.

Like a previous poster, yes, people do choose what to eat, depending on experiences and circumstances, however, fashion is not high in my life .

[Shed tuner]

Gerry, are you originally from SA ?

[Gerry B]

Gerry, are you originally from SA ?

Yes , Born in Nairobi, lived in SA since 1962 until 2006

[Shed tuner]

Yes , Born in Nairobi, lived in SA since 1962 until 2006

I figured there had to be a strong connection. Was in captown last summer, drove all around the eastern cape, awesome part of the country. Half my family are in Zambia, so I try and spend time there when I can... and planning to be there for the majority of the time once I retire.

[MartynB]

My brother, his "partner" is a trendy t@rt, into everything fashionable !!!

So , he's not allowed to eat any meat !!!

She would be out the door

[tinbum]

They are both vegans because: “Ah, look at the poor little animals. We couldn’t eat them.”

He isn’t militant about it, he doesn’t mind what other people do and happily cooks meat on his barbecue for guests. He is also an avid angler, a bloodsport to many.

Oh, and he now has a shiny .17hmr of his very own