ORIGINAL: GregH
ORIGINAL: wahoohunter
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
You want to see some disrespect, watch how alot of Amish or Mennonites work their horses and mules. They treat their animals as tools, and they use em until they die.
I guess all Americans and other folks alike were disrespectful to animals until the machines came along then, eh?
I hunt where a lot of Amish live and have noticed that they are very expert horsemen. I never got the feeling that they didn't respect their animals. Although, I don't know what goes on with them at all times.
We have a lot of Amish down our way too and although they use their animals hard, the treat them well in return. HOWEVER, when the Amish hunt...its another game. They go in with a group, drive the woods and shoot whatever they see. Okay, that's fine because I know to them its meat on the table, nothing more and part of what gets them through hard times. But, what I don't like and have personally seen is that if they shoot a deer and don't see if fall or come across it in their walking drive line...they will not look for it. In our early ML season one young Amish boy shot at a nice buck and when I questioned him about it and if he had hit it he said "no". I asked how he knew and his answer was "It did not look hit". I ask him if he had bothered to check for blood or hair and he said "no, it did not look hit".
Okay, this is not a thread on the Amish so I'll bow out, but as much as I respect the Amish, the behavior they display over hunting is disrespectful.