Hypocritical protest
Memo to all the hypocritical opponents of Narooma’s Huntfest.
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If you think those lovely trays of juicy loin chops, plump legs of prime pork and those seemingly bottomless bins of marinated chicken wings, actually assemble themselves neatly on the shelves of your local supermarket without some form of pain and suffering to the animal in question you are either hopelessly delusional or living in pixieland.
Alternately, if you kill a common house fly with a squirt of Mortein, or put to rest a giant gulf country water buffalo with a perfectly placed shot from a high powered Weatherby .375 rifle, the end result is ultimately the same - a dead animal.
So whether you choose to harvest your own meat, or you feel more warm and fuzzy inside by getting your friendly family butcher to do your dirty work for you , there is no question that when any animal dies at the hands of humans, there is some form of suffering endured by that animal.
I therefore think it is fortunate we have groups like the South Coast Hunters Club, who have introduced HuntFest to our area to help enhance hunters’ knowledge about the safe use of firearms and their storage, bush etiquette, camping skills, and the safe butchering and field dressing of their chosen quarry.
By the large number of attendants, men women and children, at previous HuntFests, it is obvious the community wants the event to expand and prosper and I, along with many others, wish the organisers all the best with their ongoing endeavors and hope the local council gives them their full backing.
Footnote: From the atrocities I’ve seen committed, on national TV news bulletins, over the last few months with a man brandishing a common kitchen carving knife, l would suggest that HuntFest detractors would do better to focus their attentions elsewhere on the world stage.
Nev Brady
Bermagui
Road to ruin
I hope that BVSC give a great deal of thought to the appointment of the road contractor they choose for the repair of Gipps St and Newtown Rd (the old Princess Hwy) and exclude the bypass team and their own staff, both who have demonstrated their inability to build or repair roadworks.
Bruce Dunlevie
Bega