"Andrew H. Carter" > wrote in message
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> On 22 Nov 2004 15:43:43 GMT, (PENMART01)
> Time to play the Devil's Advocate: Wouldn't it be
> hillarious if your spouse/mother/father/brother/sister/child
> was shot in just such a manner? Why is it excellent? When
> an issue like this does not hit close to home, people make
> light of it, but when it hits close to home, or home,
> feelings change.
True.
> I wonder how long a vegetarian would stay a vegetarian if a
> savage dog attacked him/her, or they were out camping miles
> from nowhere, or their plane went down and it was in the
> middle of nowhere.
You need to know that there are different kinds of vegetarians. Not all
vegetarians are vegan (strict "ethical" vegetarians who choose not to
support animal exploitation through diet and lifestyle). Some vegetarians
choose not to eat meat and/or dairy and/or eggs for health, environmental,
or religious reasons among others. Please do not generalize all vegetarians
together.
> Some vegetation can kill a person, some
> animals can kill a person if bitten, but rarely if eaten,
> the possible exception being rabbit as eating too much in a
> survival situation would cause one to be dehydrated. Does
> the vegetarian try to find edible plants? What if there
> aren't any that they can find? Wait it out, or does the
> gene that makes the self preservation kick in and one
> devises a way to trap an animal, kill it then eat it?
Smart people usually don't put themselves in that sort of situation. When I
go to the backwoods I usually take the necessary precautions to get me
through safely, including enough food and water. It's actually pretty hard
these days to find a place where you are truely lost to the point where
survivability is an issue. However, it could happen and if it did then the
circumstances and will of the persons involved will dictate the outcome.
It's too hard to speculate on something like that.
> Plants "eat" animals when the animals die, via their roots,
> so even vegetarians are true vegetarians, for they are
> eating animals once removed.
Sigh, please THINK about what you're writing.
> Personally, I see no reason to go hunting, when there are
> farms which raise animals to be slaughtered.
How about the severe deer overpopulations all over the country? Or some less
fortunate people who find it difficult to afford meat from a grocery store?
Or the increasing threats of food-borne illnesses from commercial food
processing/handling? Or the antibiotics, steroids, growth hormones, etc.
that factory farms typically feed to grain-fed cattle? Or the increasing
evidence linking saturated fats found in commercial meats to heart disease
and cancer? There are a few reasons for you.
> Still, in a
> survival situation, I'd trap an animal, or if lucky enough
> find some black walnuts in husks and find a pool off a creek
> with fish in it and to save the energy of expending to catch
> the fish, drop a walnut and husk in the water: the fish from
> what I've read will rise the the surface ready to be caught
> and eaten, the husk has a toxin which will kill fish. So
> ideally one would not want to go overboard, or one could
> design a fish trap that funnels the fish in, but they don't
> seem to find the way out at the center.
More than likely you'll be eating insects, worms, inner tree bark and any
other food source you can find. Walnuts and trout streams aren't always
convenient. :^)