Is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Becoming A Hunter?

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According to an article on the CNN website Mark Zuckerberg, the 27-year-old founder of Facebook, has made a vow to only eat meat of animals that he himself has killed.

Each year, so the article, Zuckerberg comes up with a personal challenge for himself. Last year he decided to learn Chinese, this year he's going to be his own meat processor. And his reasoning is actually pretty logical. He said, “I started thinking about this last year when I had a pig roast at my house. A bunch of people told me that even though they loved eating pork, they really didn't want to think about the fact that the pig used to be alive. That just seemed irresponsible to me. I don't have an issue with anything people choose to eat, but I do think they should take responsibility and be thankful for what they eat rather than trying to ignore where it came from.

Good News For Indiana Gun Owners - Bill Prevents Local Governments From Restricting Gun Rights

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This news item is provided by U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance

Indiana Senate Bill 292, introduced by Senator Jim Tomes (R – Blairsville), and signed into law by Governor Mitch Daniels, prohibits local municipalities from regulating firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories.
Specifically, the bill prohibits municipalities from enacting local laws that are more restrictive than state laws. It covers almost every aspect of gun ownership including the possession, carrying, transportation, registration, transfer, and storage of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories.
Senate Bill 292 also voids any current local ordinances that are more stringent than state law.

“Senate Bill 292 ensures that sportsmen and other gun owners don’t have to worry about differing gun laws when they travel between different cities or counties within the state,” said Evan Heusinkveld, U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance director of state services. “Sportsmen and other gun owners owe a debt of gratitude to the Indiana legislature and Governor Daniels for carrying this effort into law.”

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Hunt the way you want and let others do the same

(Originally published in the Merritt News)

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I’ve noticed over the past two years that letters to hunting magazine editors and posts on online forums against “trophy hunting” and “unnecessary large bag limits” are on a steady increase. The implications of these often self-serving comments are that hunters who seek out a very special animal - a trophy - and those that take full advantage of regional bag limits throughout the province by shooting more than one animal per given season are “unethical”, “not sportsmanlike”, or “not respecting the true spirit of hunting”. Usually such comments end with something like “the anti’s will be all over this”.

I often wonder where we as a society have gone wrong and became so intolerant of others that we feel entitled to engage in what essentially amounts to a witch-hunt. Who do these people think they are that they feel entitled to tell another hunter how many animals he can shoot per season or dictate what a “real hunter” is? Frankly I find this pointless babble very tiresome. For those that fear the anti’s let me tell you this: the anti hunting fringe of society doesn’t care if a hunter shoots one deer or ten deer in a given season and neither do they care if a hunter shoots a small meat buck or the biggest trophy buck in the woods. Anti hunters don’t agree with hunting, any hunting, period.