No need to shield children from hunting or eating animals

IN response to Mr Knox’s

12.5.22) and Ms KayDonner’s (14.5.22) opinions regarding their outrage of a young girl participating in duckshooting, surely this was more appropriate for April 1.

Would they prefer the girl was at home looking at a computer screen rather than being in the great outdoors enjoying herself with family and friends?

Children (and adults) are losing their ability to understand where food comes from and how our natural world functions.

Not to mention childhood obesity and addiction to electronic devices/ social media causing irreversible damage and dumbing down our society.

Duckshooting season is in place to control pest bird populations and the negative impacts they have; agriculture is one example. Respect for all living creatures has to be put into perspective. On any farm when there is livestock there is dead stock. Fact.

Do we ban hunting outright so that wild deer can continue to eat native seedlings and cause soil erosion. That is also a problem exacerbated by wild pigs, which in addition kill thousands of helpless newborn lambs? Not to mention possums destroying our native forests and spreading of tuberculosis to livestock.

Maybe the objectors should petition to have sanctuaries where cute bunnies and other pests can live in a protected paradise.

I certainly hope they have never consumed or worn animal products, own carnivorous pets or eaten vegetables. Plants are also living things.

Mosgiel [Abridged] ..................................

BIBLE READING: When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Colossians 3:4.