The annual duck stamp art contest run by the federal Fish and Wildlife Service sparks controversy and a lawsuit in 2020 by requiring entrants to celebrate “the American waterfowl hunting heritage.”
“Friends of Animals”, which filed the suit, says the rule “takes the cake as one of the most ludicrous, anti-wildlife, anti-conservation measures the [Trump] administration has implemented.”
Scott Ott, Stephen Green and Bill Whittle have a blast shooting down this absurd backlash.
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What Makes a Good Duck Painting? The Government Suggests Some Hunting
[Christine Hauser, The New York Times, October 13, 2020]
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Bill Whittle Network · "Ludicrous!": Backlash Against Hunting Theme Mandate for Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest
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I’ve seen earlier duck stamps that had decoys as part of the artwork, so this isn’t really a first as far as the winning image is concerned, and I’m not even sure it is the first time a hunting theme has been officially suggested.
Well said, Scott!
On a side note, pieces like this are great for the weekend. Excellent topic!
So, wildlife is allowed to devour each other, but we are not allowed to devour wildlife. Why? Are we somehow not part of the food chain? Are we to feel guilty for being superior at hunting and harvesting what we need to survive? No, I am not a hunter, or a rancher who raises meat for consumption. Yes, I prefer to purchase it already processed. Do I somehow feel guilty for this…no. I have seen the videos of preditors eating alive their prey, and it is not pretty. Nature is often not pretty, it is often brutal and nasty in it’s quest for survival. Why it is often depected as a wonderful, peaceful environment in comparison with man is curious to the extreme.
Unhunted wildlife usually dies from disease or hunger!
All you need to understand about what motivates the Friends of Animals group, and a majority of others like it, is not so much their love of animals. Rather, everything they want and do is motivated by their hate for humans.
I think it’s rediculous that the article starts out with ” The Trump Administration…”. As if Trump or any high level administators had anything to do with this.
If you want to know who else is shockingly effective in the environmental movement and doesn’t necessarily involve funneling anti-American, “environmental charities” money, you should see what is going on in Central and South America to attract the “bird tourist”. My wife and I do bird photography. My doctor friends and I are bird hunters. If you don’t like shooting guns at birds, believe it or not there is a good deal of fun to be had scouting out gorgeous birds and taking their picture. And the hotels in Costa Rica, Columbia, Brazil, and Ecuador that cater to bird photographers are high, high end, are usually in rain forest environs, and have great food prepared by chefs who are amazing using organic food grown on the property or nearby.
The governments of these countries know what is going on, too. If a new species of bird is discovered, American charitable trusts will usually be the first to “swoop in” and buy the surrounding few acres of land. If the ball gets rolling with bird tourists, the government of that country will buy a lot more surrounding land, put up a ranger station, and it goes on from there. Some of the most successful small business owners in these countries cater to not only rich Americans with a love for the outdoors, but the upper classes of the Far East. Hummingbird sanctuaries cater to the latter in particular, guaranteeing them the opportunity to get the best hummingbird to pose with the best orchid.
Most hunters are aware of the decades-long opportunity to help some countries in South America who have so many of certain birds that they need help with depopulation to help their farmers. No amount of target practice can prepare a hunter with anything rivaling this.
Capitalism as the driver of sustaining healthy ecology sustaining these bird species is the best way to go ahead. Central and South American governments know where the money is and harvesting of the rare woods in the forests of these countries can be slowed by more money coming in from this competing market.
Are you absolutely certain that that “chicken” those chef’s served you were commercial organic or non-organic animals, and not some unlucky resident of the forest?
It seems so obvious that the free market incentives to preserve natural recreational opportunities would be better than any “unintended consequences” from centralized government control. http://www.coyoteblog.com discusses this all the time. Don’t really understand how people of normal intelligence can believe anything else (… oh, now I see the problem).
Not sure when, but research shows plants “scream” in pain when: removed from the ground, picked from trees, peeled and especially eaten. (They give off a high frequency signal we cant hear) So I guess you cause pain, only eat things that are already dead, or starve. I’m fact, animals can run or fight back. The poor fruits or vegetables are defenseless. Enjoy! As to me… Bacon. Wrapped in bacon. In a bacon bowl. Bacon bits spring sprinkled on top with a little bacon grease drizzled on it…
Mmmmmmm!
As I always say, the only thing better than bacon is bacon-wrapped bacon.
Or now your thing.
I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain just to eat what food eats.
When I was in school I worked in the dining hall, and we all ate our free meal before our shift started together. Some hippy chick tried guilting me over the veal parm I was enjoying by asking, “Do you know what’s in those?” I replied, “Yep! Plenty of steroids and hormones, just what I need for my workout later!” She then tried asking if I knew how they were raised. At that point I stopped eating and explained that if veal calves had evolved ahead of us we’d all be holed up in 3X3 pens and being shot full of hormones while veal calf hippies would be protesting against eating humans. I concluded with, “When you’re at the top of the food chain you’re entitled to certain priveliges.” She never questioned my culinary choices again.
Then there was the time she tried to get me & my serving line tag team partner to throw in to a raffle for an acre of land in the Amazon forest…
I certainly hope you want to share the Amazon land raffle story. 😀
Of course! When she made the offer I asked if we could use the land to build a ClourorFlouroCarbon (CFC) plant. This was @ 30 years ago, back when the hole in the Ozone Layer was going to kill us all in 5-10 years. She said, “No. The idea is to own this acre of land so nobody can develop it.” My tag team partner Terrell (We were like Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown in “Cocktail”, literally hitting on every female who came through our line. Unlike them we were never successful) wanted to use it to dump toxic waste. Hippie Girl corrected him again, at which point I asked if it was waterfront property so we could build a resort. Terrell consistently stayed with his toxic waste plan, while I kept coming up with different entrepreneurial ways to develop the acre. After a while Hippie Chick gave up & stopped trying to solicit our $ for her cause
Usage note:
Hippie chicks sing kumbaya.
Hippy chicks shake dat thang.
“entitled to certain privileges” and immunities – says so right in the Constitution. So if you can eat carrots in FL or VA, you can eat them in MI or CA, etc.
Speaking of the Constitution and maintaining it purity, did any of the Dem’s on the committee advising on ACB ask her is she ate carrots herself, or fed them to her family?
Bob, after all these years of having it beaten into us that TANSTAFL, now you are claiming that you in fact beat that rule? Scott’s right! A real disturbance in the Force!
Nah, no TANSTAFL loophole, the “free” meal before our shifts were part of our compensation =8^)
looks like I missed an “A”: TANSTAAFL
aka: there are nice silly things all around Florida; the tangent of (STAAFL)
If animals are not meant to be eaten, why are they made of food? Also, why is it OK that they eat each other? Do you know that carrots, beets, and potatoes and the like are alive also? Why then do you believe we should eat them rather than animals? After all, EVERYONE who ate such things before 1900, is dead. Obviously, it is not safe to eat such things. Vote for vegetable rights because they can’t vote for themselves. They have a right not to be eaten and must be left in peace.
I know, this is silly, but this is how easy it is to destroy the psychotic animal rightest ideas.
As far as I am concerned, it is OK for you not to eat animals or vegetables. Soon, you will expire and we won’t have to listen to your psychotic whining ever again!
I’m a vegan, and I think that hunti…
MBWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I tried, I really tried, but I just couldn’t say it with a straight face. Right there with you, Lionel.
Scott, see my other comment in this thread. Yes,baby carrots can cry out in pain.
Lionell, Michael, Scott and Harry:
Thank you for the humor. I find that I have a need to laugh out loud everyday to beat back the moribund weight of the politics of the day. Your short sideline here proved to be that medicine. I’m sure that I am not alone.
When I was a vegetarian, for about two decades, my little brother who’s a scientist, used to ask me how I could, in good conscience, bear the thought of eating those poor carrots that had been forced to stand in rows in the hot sun, day after day, only to be unceremoniously yanked from Mother Earth.
Just came up with what I’m going to say to veg*and from now on: “I only eat a special combination of naturally processed plants. It’s called ‘meat.'”
And always remember, “team” spelled sideways is “meat.”
I like to explain to Veg*s that “I’m a Megan. It’s a lifestyle choice”
The cries of agony should be almost too much to tolerate. That is if you could hear it. Fortunately, my 83 year old ears aren’t what they used to be and I can’t hear their screams of terror.
As I understand it, there are no such things as baby carrots. It is adult carrots, cut and tumbled to shape them like baby carrots. They are nothing but the broken remains of adult carrots. All viscously BRANDED and packaged to be what they are not. Still, I find them delicious when cooked as part of a chicken or beef stew.
Yes. I like mine with a healthy dose of modified genes, too.
Well, I also wear hearing aids, and it seems like I hear those baby carrots screaming and squealing all the time, especially as the batteries get near their end of life (after 6 or 7 days, in 6 pulse sequences, too)). Don’t know if that is from when they are unceremoniously pulled from the ground or during the tumbling and packaging ordeal.
Not only are animals made of food … they are made of (wait for it) … Chemicals!!
And if you go to the right microbe supermarket, you will find the Soylent Green brand there, along with many others. And you can also find SG on Amazon, too.
The dirty little secret is that every thing we use that is material is made of chemicals. The even more dirty secret is that we are made of chemicals as well. The height of irony of it is that all those who avoid chemicals as if they are poison are themselves made up of chemicals.
Actually, we live in the age of raisin. People pretend to have carefully thought out reasons to do things but all they have are raisins. A very poor substitute for having valid reasons.
Do they think? Not for an instant. They just run wide open on pure emotion. Hence Trump is bad because he feels bad and Biden is good because he feels good.
Nothing could be further from the truth. That is if you want to live and thrive. That is the problem. They don’t really want to live nor do they want you to live. They suffer and you must suffer even more. THAT is their joy.
Welcome to the brave new world: a replay of the dark ages.
“The age of raisin.”
Well played.
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