Is there an epidemic of wanton waste amongst waterfowlers?
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:44 amIve been waterfowl hunting about 20 years and I was taught if you kill it, respect it by eating it. Over the last 6-8 years I have lived on the move formy trade so Ive been hiring guides wherever i happen to be vs attempting to lug gear around in an RV.
I hunted 4 days last week with a young guide in Michigan and was shocked when we killed 20 geese and not one man wanted to take them to eat. I asked, are your freezers full? Why don't you want your meat. Response was heads shaking, we dont eat that. To say I was taken aback was an understatement. I didnt say anything other I thought that was weird, but to each there own.
This is literally a crime: wanton willful waste of wildlife.
Is this common practice now?
Have we become so sorry in the kitchen we cant make our wild fowl palatable? Or is the waste driven by social media?
My guide was seemingly obsessed with photographs of big piles of birds for instagram. I get it for marketing but wrong is wrong in my opinion.
What is the communties take?
I hunted 4 days last week with a young guide in Michigan and was shocked when we killed 20 geese and not one man wanted to take them to eat. I asked, are your freezers full? Why don't you want your meat. Response was heads shaking, we dont eat that. To say I was taken aback was an understatement. I didnt say anything other I thought that was weird, but to each there own.
This is literally a crime: wanton willful waste of wildlife.
Is this common practice now?
Have we become so sorry in the kitchen we cant make our wild fowl palatable? Or is the waste driven by social media?
My guide was seemingly obsessed with photographs of big piles of birds for instagram. I get it for marketing but wrong is wrong in my opinion.
What is the communties take?
