Don't let your kids become hookers

The last thing we need is parents spending more time with their children.

Aw, man! False advertising. I knew you weren't talking about the julia roberts type hooker, but...

This is a hooker:

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Got to hand it to PETA, they do a good job with the double meaning marketing.  

Now as for fishing.  I love to fish with my kids and think it's a little more humane to be a sport fisherman and let them go after I catch them versus ripping their heads off, cooking them in oil, and eating them.  (I could be wrong though)

I seriously hate PETA.

My own opinion. You don't have to like it

I LOVE PETA

People

Eat

Tasty

Animals

I especially hate them when they try to convince me that the two dogs that are fighting to get into my laps shouldn't be my pets. I hate to tell PETA but I'm my dogs' pet, not the other way around.

It's actually quite a challenge, you have to (well, should) use barbless hooks, so it's not just hooking them and reeling them in.  Even more difficult on a fly.  Not much worse feeling than watching a trout rise up to your fly look at it, say "hmmm, nope, don't think so" and drop back to the bottom.

THe best are what I call LDRs - Long Distance Releases.  You set the hook, but the fish works it out without the stress of being landed.

Read a study somewhere that said the mortality rate is very low in C&R

I thought we were going to talk about this article instead: http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/19/peta-porn-domain-name/

Link is safe for work. Abysmally idiotic, but SFW. Who on earth is gonna feel a bit randy, click on a nakies pic, and RIOW-interruptus be convinced to go vegan by the literature that pops up? Seems... odd...

Different societies draw the line in different places.  I'm going to botch the example, but I seem to recall reading something about the Dalai Lama building a house, maybe a garden, and the ridiculous amount of time it took to complete because they had to remove the dirt very slowly so as not to harm and ants, worms or whatever living things might have been there.  I think that's extreme, but to each their own.  I fish, both catch and release and for meat.  I'm not losing any sleep over it. 

So would it be OK if my family pet hooked the fish and dragged it through the water, since their on the same level?

I guess I should also mention that while I eat meat every day. It's been at least 20 years since I've killed anything bigger than cockroach (but I did it with extreme prejudice).

I accidentally killed a mud snail at the beach last month and I felt bad.

That's a very good point too!

I can't believe that I'm going to make this reply my first foray into the world that is COJ - but here I go:

To each their own - you can certainly believe what you want.  However, I fell like this comes from an imbalance of perspective.  One should not be needlessly cruel to animals, but one of their functions on this earth is to be food.  You can go the "God" route here and say that's what God intended, or you can go the "evolution" route and take a look at the make up of our teeth - either way points to an intention to eat meat for sustenance.

As long as a vegan/vegetarian doesn't think they should eat meat, I'm all for it - more for me, but as soon as that person doesn't think I should eat meat (and thinks I'm committing murder in the process) that goes too far.

I'll end with a Lion King reference:  it does go back to the circle of life and a lack of understanding of how that works.  My vegan cousin was dumbfounded when she found out that farmers actually had to kill rabbits and deer to protect their crops in order for her to have the lifestyle she chose.

Anyway - that's my view and since it was free, you get what you pay for.

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