Re: Off topic - hunting in Greece
- Subject: Re: Off topic - hunting in Greece
- From: A* L*
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:49:38 +0100
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> It is the same here in the Algarve in Portugal.
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> Those of us who like to encourage wild life do find it extremely sad to see
> a hunter with his haul of tiny sparrows around his waist, not even large
> enough to eat. I am sure it is a cultural thing, as when hunters are
> challenged when in someone's garden they say rather menacingly "this is OUR
> country, you foreigners cannot own Portugal!". Perhaps one day they will
> learn to respect life.
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>What amazes me is how those maniacs ever manage to hit anything as small as a sparrow, one small bird must take the entire output of an ordnance factory for six months. Anyway, it's lucky the Portuguese are a comparatively peaceable nation. I met a Belgian in the South of France a few years ago who had been literally pulped by the "hunters" after he had tried to stop them letting off their guns amongst his horses on his French farm. That was deliberate. In the Eastern states of America, it's accidental,(though a lady friend tells of being threatened with a lynching in the West for expressing sympathy with a shot deer travelling on a roof-rack) no one dares ride a horse in the Pennsylvania mountains during the hunting season and the inhabitants pray for massive blizzards. It makes the much maligned English fox-hunting community look really civilized in comparison. The moral is if one wants to collect seeds from wild plant populations anywhere in the Northern hemisphere, g!
ather them before the shooting season starts or you too will end up riding on a roof-rack
Anthony
Anthony
