Comments on: Trophies Still Roam the Restaurant Range, But I’m Not Game

By: Wendy Stebar

Wendy Stebar — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:58:32 +0000

Here! Here! Mounted heads are not cool. And I lived in Utah for 10 years where they have a school holiday on opening day of deer hunting season. Hunting for meat? I’m okay with that; but hanging the head on your wall? Who was the first back woods fool to think that was a swell idea?

By: Sarah Supernova

Sarah Supernova — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:59 +0000

Children these days are generally smarter than the adults who claim to raise and guide them. Listen to the kiddos! Open your hearts. I cry when I see stuffed trophies too. I cry when I hear of dolphin slaughter, wolf killing, whale harpooning… oh, and I also cry when I hear of people in the world starving simply because Westerners take up too much precious ag land raising those sad little cows for their obsession with meat.

Veggies and grains RULE!! 🙂

By: Luanne Bradley

Luanne Bradley — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:21:02 +0000

Good supplemental reading here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-pacelle/will-the-real-hunters-ple_b_412288.html

By: Luanne Bradley

Luanne Bradley — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:05:39 +0000

Thanks, Ignatz. I think you mean dishonor a 10-year-old and I couldn’t agree more. Once at home in the Chateaus of Europe, perhaps, but we are raising a different generation.

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:52:10 +0000

Chopped off animal heads are not too different from ears or scalps taken on a battlefield — disgusting trophies Honor the pure sensibilities of a 10-year-old — let’s all just skip those joints and their bloody meats.

By: Luanne

Luanne — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:23:30 +0000

Thanks, Tertia. Not sure what you mean by my conclusions, but I do believe mounting heads for decoration is not really respectful of those animals and pretty barbaric. I’m not against hunting, although I have personal opinions about men that do it for “sport,” and realize it is cultural, just like learning to play with guns. The Native Americans also used every part of the animal and wore the heads as foils for hunting in the woods, and used the skins for warmth as garments and for their homes. Even if hunting is more humane, as you claim, mounting the heads is not.

By: Tertia

Tertia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:40:22 +0000

While I agree that animal carcasses are not my favorite decor, I disagree with many of your conclusions. Not everyone is going to become a vegetarian, and I am skeptical that it is any more environmentally friendly than being an ethical omnivore. People need to see where there food comes from and that they were real, live, beautiful animals and realize the importance of the food decisions they make. These animal trophies you speak of are usually just what is remaining of the animal after the hunter has eaten the meat. And hunting is a much more humane (and environmentally friendly) way of acquiring meat for consumption than massive meat processing plants.