PETA Urges Restaurants Nationwide to Ditch Dead Heads

Animals are living beings. They don't provide us with food the Earth does that with beautiful plants. There is no honor in being murdered and having your corpse devoured by another species with a superiority complex.

A comment about Hunting. If every meat eater got their meat only from hunting that would instantly and exponentially improve the rate of global warming obesity heart disease cancer environmental devastation and the utterly obscene horrendous treatment of animals in the food industry. "If" is a big word. Hunters aren't the problem any more than praying mantises are responsible for insect plagues. Yeah I think that makes sense...

I am a deer bow hunter and a fisherman. I am a loving husband father of 2 girls a registered nurse and a middle school guidance counselor. I hunt because I enjoy the outdoors I enjoy the quality of the food the animals provide I enjoy the comaraderie I have with freinds and extended family with whom I hunt. I don't think that my family patients kids students friends or wife would see me as a sociopath. I don't see animal life equal to human life but I highly respect the animals I hunt and apperciate the substenance they provide for me an my family. I don't enjoy the inficting pain on an animial but I do enjoy the food the animal provides and the challenge of killing an animal that is smart alert alusive and beautful as a deer. I see the quick kill of an animal by a hunter more merciful than the natural population control mechanisms of nature. Slow starvation disease weakening the animal to the point it is caught by a preditor with deer usually a coyotee and eaten alive over a 30 minute period.I think the animal becoming food for a person. Actually becoming a part of the physical life of me and my family is a much more scared respect and honor of the animal than coyotee food. Or perhaps the animal is wounded or killed through a car deer collison that for example has killed 123 people in Wisconsin in 2008. I do understand your point of view that you abhor unesessary suferring of animals and the behavior of hunters who hunt for the wrong reasons. I just think you Peta suporters have a niave view of the natural world and a mistaken view of the role of animals in creation.

Whenever I go to my favorite restraunt and munch away on a huge plate of Texas Caviar which is not fish eggs but a delicious black bean salad I look at the enormous moosehead hanging over the bar and reflect upon how much more exciting it would have been to see him when he was alive perhaps drinking out of a river somewhere in a beautiful primevel forest.

Kurt I honestly believe your intentions here are good. However I must point out that you called hunting a "sport." That term is used freely in the hunting community. Hunting is not a sport it is murder plain and simple. And while I have known many people who hunt and seem to be good people otherwise they have just fallen into their society's traditions and not questioned if the activity was actually ethical. For hunting to be designated a sport then the hunted needs to have an equal footing and ability to kill the hunter. A sport is when two opposing factions fight or compete on equal grounds. That is not hunting. Hunting involves attracting animals to a location often as they travel in packs or families and without notifying them in advance killing them. And then what happens when they only wound them? They limp off in misery until they hopefully die mercifully. If you were to go hunting for SPORT I realize you don't anymore and there was a 50 chance you would kill something and a 50 chance you would be killed do you think it would be nearly as popular as it is? Hunters say that they love the activity and often justify it because either there are too many deer or other animals or that they plan to eat the kill. But we all know that even though they would not admit it they love the actual process of killing another living being and watching it take its last breaths thereby showing their might and "superiority." I like to tell people to imagine aliens coming to Earth and declaring there are "simply too many people" and the herds must be thinned out. So you are with your family at the mall and suddenly some alien hunters start shooting their weapons and you watch as your mother and sister are hit. You see them bleeding and gasping their last breaths with pain. But you must quickly get the rest of your family out of their and abandon them or you will all be killed. That is what people call hunting killing for enjoyment target practice on living beings. Hunting may be a widely accepted activity but that does not make it right. I think the people that come to this website realize that. And while your friends may participate in this murder it does not make it acceptable.