freedombecki
Let's go swimmin'!
You're the one who said it was a sport. Good sports make the most of their wins by taking them home for mama to cook.
Back in Colonial days, many people would have starved to death in winter if it weren't for small game like pigeons to shoot and eat in bad years if crops failed.
What the commentator didn't say is that South Carolina was the 9th states to sign up and sent many sons into the Revolution to earn their freedom. That tradition likely started long before we became a nation, and pigeons may have saved the lives of people in that county in one poor growing season or another. People were subjected to years of such bad weather crops could fail two or three years in a row due to hurricanes, droughts, and all things Mother Nature had up her sleeve to reduce populations to only the fittest. Back then, humans had no exemption from the fury of nature, except possibly the trying times of war. Except for their determination to survive. Something tells me their tradition of shooting pigeons likely is associated with survival through one of those times by way of pigeon. Most people still are not vegans. If we were, this planet would truly be in trouble. Animals provide fertilizer that enriches soil and prevents erosion to bedrock. They found that out by expanding the Sarhara when they killed off all the wild beasts to grow plants, and after a couple of decades, the desert crept in and the creeks dried up, pushing the desert by leaps and bounds further south into Africa. It wasn't until someone noticed that the herdsmen's land didn't dry up that they realized the error of demanding plants for vegans by destroying the local hooved beasts that was causing the great drought. Now, savvy ecologists are reintroducing livestock into drought areas and finding nature restoring itself back to a greener ecosystem where desert winds howled in decades of crop management failure. You must have animals to make the land right, whether they are wild stock or livestock. They enrich the soil to make our planet able to use the land for growing, and rainfall follows areas where animals live, too. There is a reason the Bible rewards animal people and disses vegans. It has to do with life on this planet, and the acceptance of that. Converting lands to vegetable use only results in deserted land when it fails after just a very few years. The land requires balance, and it also requires wise stewardship when humans live in it.
People ignore what is written in ancient times because then, people relied on accurate word of mouth before print. Print in addition to doing good also allows stupidity to bring unproven, untested ideas to the forefront, ideas which have played havoc in years past, yet are faithfully recorded in the good book. Balance in nature seems gently recommended in the Book of Genesis when it should say, "Yo, ye dummies! Pay attention!" Oh, wait. It saves that for the Proverbs.
/lectio divinia
You people are going to hell!
