Like PZ<\/A>, I wasn’t going to mention the whole “Cheney shoots another hunter” thing, because that is, after all, part of the sport of hunting. And while I don’t personally hunt (I prefer fishing), I went to a high school where classes were unofficially cancelled on the first day of deer season, so I have no objection to the idea.<\/p>\n Finding out what kind<\/STRONG> of hunt it was<\/A> changes my opinion, though: Monday’s hunting trip to Pennsylvania by Vice President Dick Cheney in which he reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks at an exclusive private club places a spotlight on an increasingly popular and deplorable form of hunting, in which birds are pen-reared and released to be shot in large numbers by patrons. The ethics of these hunts are called into question by rank-and-file sportsmen, who hunt animals in their native habitat and do not shoot confined or pen-raised animals that cannot escape. It’s not so much that this brand of “hunting” is ethically deplorable– my outrage is so fatigued, I’m saving it for the big stuff– as what it says about the competence of the people involved. I mean, Cheney is supposed to be the brains behind this operation, and he manages to shoot another “hunter” while “hunting” tame pheasants<\/STRONG>? Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like PZ, I wasn’t going to mention the whole “Cheney shoots another hunter” thing, because that is, after all, part of the sport of hunting. And while I don’t personally hunt (I prefer fishing), I went to a high school where classes were unofficially cancelled on the first day of deer season, so I have… Continue reading Next Time, Hit It With a Rock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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