Come In Little Georgie, Time To Develop Your Royal Blood-Lust

[Canary42]

Mass killing to be witnessed by 5-year-old prince

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/royal-family-balmoral-prince-george-132000349.html

[nailit]

Brown sauce for me ummmm….

[Tilly2]

I'm fine with eating meat as long as I don't have to kill it.

However, I am in the fortunate position of being able to buy outdoor reared, free range, organic meat.
That assuages the guilt, a little bit. At least they had a happyish life.

[kvalidir]

I think if you're a vegan then it's fine to object, but if you look down your nose at someone killing something that will ultimately be eaten even if there is an element of sport etc in it then you need to have a look at how the meat you eat from supermarkets is actually produced. A grouse has a far better quality of life before its death than your average diary cow, intensively reared pig ( THAT is horrific), veal ( and that) or chicken. My parents thought it was important that I know how to humanely kill something to eat when I was a kid, as they found shopping for stuff that someone else had killed didn't really get the point across that it's something's life being taken for our Sunday lunch, so I've killed things, prepared them, cooked them and eaten them, and I don't have a massive problem with it. That being said I'm largely ( but not completely) veggie these days for that reason, I think it's not very ethical eating our fellow planet dwellers.

[kvalidir]

Yes Tilly that's fair enough, be as ethical as you can in your meat choices. x

[ummmm]

My dad had to help slaughter a pig (he was never asked again because that's when they realised what a weak stomach he had)

In my eyes it was barbaric.

[nailit]

//I think if you're a vegan then it's fine to object, but if you look down your nose at someone killing something that will ultimately be eaten even if there is an element of sport etc in it then you need to have a look at how the meat you eat from supermarkets is actually produced//

Excellent point kval. Point is though how many of these grouse actually are consumed. How many foxes were consumed when THAT was legal? The point is that these people get their jollies merely from killing. Its not as though the royals have to hunt their own food is it?

[kvalidir]

The Grouse will be eaten- they have a value. Fox hunting is an entirely different topic that killing something someone will eat. x

[AuntLydia]

kvaladir: no no no! People shoot grouse for sport and for fun! this is not good! I am not vegetarian but dead against killing any animal as a sport and this is what Grouse shooting is about. Grouse , to be honest, taste vile. I was brought up shooting. Shooting rabbits which we ate and carrion crows to stop them picking the eyes out of lambs in the spring. It was not enjoyable it was not sport. We did not pay thousands of pounds for the privilege. Teaching a child it it acceptable to shoot and kill an animal for 'fun' is unacceptable, however much you dress it up in 'tradition'. Bull baiting, hare coursing, fox hunting, badger baiting: all traditional, all unacceptable to the majority of people these days. Don't get me wrong- in a 'apocalyptic' situation I would kill and eat a wild animal, I would not enjoy doing it but to survive I would.

[nailit]

But as I said Kval, its not as though the royals HAVE to hunt their own food is it?
BTW hows the U.S of A treating you?

[sanmac]

But I think that the main point of this thread is the desire of some people to go out and kill or maim wildlife merely for the pleasure and thrill of it. As nailit said earlier, there has to be something wrong with them in order to obtain satisfaction from this abnormal behavior...Killing for "sport".

[jackthehat]

Most of the game-birds will end up on the dining tables of the estates on which they were shot (after a decent period of hanging), in top-end restaurants and in butchers' shops.

I am more annoyed by the corporate 'jollies' hosted on the grouse-moors, etc. than the Royal past-time....

[kvalidir]

Very well thank you Nailit, having a mostly lovely time with himself, albeit a bit hectic. Back once more I think then over here for good hopefully x

[nailit]

jack
//I am more annoyed by the corporate 'jollies' hosted on the grouse-moors, etc.//
I might be a little dim here but what do you mean by that?

[AuntLydia]

//I am more annoyed by the corporate 'jollies' hosted on the grouse-moors, etc. than the Royal past-time.//

Does not matter who pulls the trigger. birds are raised and shot for 'fun'

[nailit]

Good luck Kval, hope things work out for you. ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

The grouse will be sold and eaten. Not to my taste, only tried it once, nor is pheasant, but some people like game birds and how else to get them without shooting them out of the sky? No difference from wringing a chicken's neck, IMO.

[jackthehat]

Things like this,

https://www.williampowellsporting.co.uk/

[nailit]

Thanks jack, so why does THAT annoy you more than the royals doing it? Im lost here.

[kvalidir]

Thanks Nailit, fingers crossed. Man and I have just taken things to the ultimate level so it'll either be awesome or I'll be back with my tail between my legs telling tales of drunkeness and cruelty lol x

[nailit]

//No difference from wringing a chicken's neck, IMO.//
Ive wrung the necks of several chickens when I worked on a farm. I didn't enjoy a minute of it, much less go out seeking birds to destroy for fun.