Laureen Harper slams cougar hunter as 'creep' who 'must be c
Tricks @ Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:44 am
herbie herbie:
Bear is disgusting! Your friend's full of shit unless he was raised on it.
Natives eat it, but it's not exactly a 'staple' food. More like you want the pelt, its edible, you got 6 kids and the meat was free with the fur.
Every non-native I've ever met who said it was good rolled their own, had the holes in their gumboots duct-taped and hadn't had their monthly bath...
AFAIC bear, lynx (tried a nibble at game club) are like sea urchin, sea cucumber. Yeah you can eat them but a can of no name Spam tastes 1000% better.
Natives eat it, but it's not exactly a 'staple' food. More like you want the pelt, its edible, you got 6 kids and the meat was free with the fur.
Every non-native I've ever met who said it was good rolled their own, had the holes in their gumboots duct-taped and hadn't had their monthly bath...
AFAIC bear, lynx (tried a nibble at game club) are like sea urchin, sea cucumber. Yeah you can eat them but a can of no name Spam tastes 1000% better.
She, and she definitely was singing it's praises, definitely wasn't raised on it.
raydan @ Sat Dec 23, 2017 11:20 am
I've never tried bear but in my dad's family, they hunted bear and ate the meat when he was young. I don't remember him telling me if it was any good, though.
HyperionTheEvil @ Sun Dec 24, 2017 6:30 pm
I have no problem with people hunting wild animals. On the condition they get the same tools the animals have. The cougar in question had teeth and claws, If the guy went out with his teeth and his fingernails i call it a fair fight
herbie @ Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:41 pm
raydan raydan:
I've never tried bear but in my dad's family, they hunted bear and ate the meat when he was young. I don't remember him telling me if it was any good, though.
The ass makes a gamey tasting ham, I found it even nastier than when we shot our old boar "Norm".
The kids named every pig we raised after a fat character on tv.
Plenty of lynx here, none of my native friends ever ate them. Cougars only entered this area about 20 years ago.
Lot of moose eaten here. So much so a lot of people roll their eyes "moose again?" like the wife and I do with salmon. My Dad worked at BC Packers, the wife is from Terrace on the Skeena. Traded our salmon sandwiches for peanut butter in school a lot...
DrCaleb @ Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:10 am
herbie herbie:
raydan raydan:
I've never tried bear but in my dad's family, they hunted bear and ate the meat when he was young. I don't remember him telling me if it was any good, though.
The ass makes a gamey tasting ham, I found it even nastier than when we shot our old boar "Norm".
The kids named every pig we raised after a fat character on tv.
I always found bear to be inedible. You had to spice the crap out of it so it didn't taste like a greasy dirty diaper. A friend of mines' dad had a recipe for summer sausage that mixed bear, moose and beef that was actually really good. But he just hung it in a cooler, and if it wasn't very humid the sausage would dry out and the core would get botulism.
BartSimpson @ Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:23 am
California banned the hunting of mountain lions (aka cougars) in 1991. Their populations have grown so much that it's now not unusual to see them in urban areas.
And now the state's naturalists are all wondering why our native deer and elk populations are being reduced.
It's a total fucking mystery. 
BeaverFever @ Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:29 am
Gosh how did all these animals manage to survive for millions of years without humans to micromanage their populations via licensed hunting?
It’s a total fucking mystery.
BartSimpson @ Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:21 am
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Gosh how did all these animals manage to survive for millions of years without humans to micromanage their populations via licensed hunting?
It’s a total fucking mystery.
It’s a total fucking mystery.
Thank you for your sarcasm but that's about what I was saying.
Banning the hunting of predators allowed for their population to increase but that led to a corresponding decrease in prey populations.
See, this being California there was a mistaken belief that enlightened mountain lions would be vegetarians.
BeaverFever @ Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:32 am
What I’m saying is predator and prey populations naturally find an equilibrium. If predators kill too many prey then they run out of food and the predator population crashes also, which then helps prey populations recover. And round it goes. No human intervention required.
Imbalances are usually caused by human activity and habitat destruction.
DrCaleb @ Thu Dec 28, 2017 7:17 am
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Imbalances are usually caused by human activity and habitat destruction.
You mean like how we use 125% of the annual potential production of biomass of the Earth in our never ending quest for 'more!'? What could possibly go wrong?
BartSimpson @ Thu Dec 28, 2017 10:14 am
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
What I’m saying is predator and prey populations naturally find an equilibrium. If predators kill too many prey then they run out of food and the predator population crashes also, which then helps prey populations recover. And round it goes. No human intervention required.
Imbalances are usually caused by human activity and habitat destruction.
Imbalances are usually caused by human activity and habitat destruction.
Humans are part of nature, too.
RUEZ @ Thu Dec 28, 2017 7:04 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Wow good on ya Laureen!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/ ... -1.3730704
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Laureen Harper slams cougar hunter as 'creep' who 'must be compensating'
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s wife joined the chorus of online backlash against a Canadian TV personality who bragged about killing a cougar in northern Alberta.
Steve Ecklund, the host of the outdoor enthusiast show “The Edge,” posted several photos earlier this month showing him holding the dead animal, and another of him cooking a stir-fry with the meat.
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Laureen Harper took to Twitter on Wednesday night to express her distaste for the hunter, calling him a “creep” and suggesting his behavior may have been the result of a masculine shortcoming.
Harper’s response provoked reactions online ranging from support to surprise at such blunt language from the wife of a former prime minister.
“Laureen? I honestly must admit, I never expected you to speak so boldly. Luv it!” wrote one user.
Another said, “Laureen! Who knew you were such a badass?”
Harper responded to a user who worried her account had been hacked, writing “Wasn’t hacked. I was really angry that some guy flies all the way to Alberta to kill a magnificent cougar, so he can make a stir fry.”
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s wife joined the chorus of online backlash against a Canadian TV personality who bragged about killing a cougar in northern Alberta.
Steve Ecklund, the host of the outdoor enthusiast show “The Edge,” posted several photos earlier this month showing him holding the dead animal, and another of him cooking a stir-fry with the meat.
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Laureen Harper took to Twitter on Wednesday night to express her distaste for the hunter, calling him a “creep” and suggesting his behavior may have been the result of a masculine shortcoming.
Harper’s response provoked reactions online ranging from support to surprise at such blunt language from the wife of a former prime minister.
“Laureen? I honestly must admit, I never expected you to speak so boldly. Luv it!” wrote one user.
Another said, “Laureen! Who knew you were such a badass?”
Harper responded to a user who worried her account had been hacked, writing “Wasn’t hacked. I was really angry that some guy flies all the way to Alberta to kill a magnificent cougar, so he can make a stir fry.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/ ... -1.3730704
Funny. If this had been a male celebrity or politician and they criticized a female mocking her genitalia cities would burn and there would be another twitter movement. I'm not sure how this is acceptable because she's a woman.
BeaverFever @ Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:55 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
What I’m saying is predator and prey populations naturally find an equilibrium. If predators kill too many prey then they run out of food and the predator population crashes also, which then helps prey populations recover. And round it goes. No human intervention required.
Imbalances are usually caused by human activity and habitat destruction.
Imbalances are usually caused by human activity and habitat destruction.
Humans are part of nature, too.
Not really.
BeaverFever @ Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:56 am
RUEZ RUEZ:
Funny. If this had been a male celebrity or politician and they criticized a female mocking her genitalia cities would burn and there would be another twitter movement.
Or he would go on to be elected president of the United States