“At 3:15Pm on an early November day, I draw my bow back on a ‘trophy’ Whitetail deer in the baystate of Massachusetts. In the background I hear the bustle of traffic beginning from people’s day jobs. As I let my arrow fly through the 200 plus pound mature deer standing 10 yards away, I knew my shot was fatal. It has been months of planning and preparation to target a single deer that will provide my family with organic meat throughout the year.”
A.J. DeRosa is author of The Urban Deer Complex and a passionate advocate of the localvoire and organic movements. The single animal he harvested will provide over 75 pounds of meat that will be processed into sausage, hamburger, steak and stock. With blood on his hands he has taken the moral responsibility to not just understand the process of field to table, but to actually participate in the process himself.
You might ask yourself what does this have to do with being Vegan? Vegan according to Wikipedia “is both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.” A cause marked by noble motives that falls short of fact. Continue reading – http://huntergreen.org/green-living/are-hunters-more-moral-than-vegans/#.Vcp3mf1lxAA.facebook