Running Down Prey
Although I do not condemn hunting on ethical grounds (I’m no vegan), I am nonetheless seriously annoyed by people who refer to hunting as a “sport”. Shooting deer with telescoped rifles is about as sporting as a football game in which only one team is given armor. Anyone who really wants a “sporting hunt” should get rid of their telescope, and their rifle, and their bow, and their javelins, and do it the old-old-old-fashioned way: run down your prey and bash it with a rock. As this article (Physorg) explains, we humans are actually quite well-adapted for doing this; all that technology is really just the lazy man’s way of getting meat.
I think this research could easily give birth to the next diet fad: you can eat as much as you want, provided that you ran it down and killed it with your own two hands.
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