"Aah Dick, but what of the fish?"

I eat the fish so I am automatically going to hurt it.  That hurt can not be avoided.  All I  can do is minimize the amount of pain that the fish suffers when I catch it or the deer suffers when I shoot it.  In the case of a fish a whack on the head and an ice chest is effective.  With the deer not taking the shot unless I have a shot that will put the animal on the ground within five feet of where it was standing when I pulled the trigger is effective.   Or I could stop subsistence fishing and hunting and go the grocery store and let someone else do my killing. 

I feel that treatment free bee keepers allow their bees to suffer by not providing safe and simple husbandry measures to control mite populations.  If they have no empathy for the animals they should not keep them.

Dick

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