Kill vs Harvest

[AT Hiker]

It comes up a lot and our neighbors to the far North are not immune to the criticism either.
Leave it up to the Canadians to get a whole chapter dedicated about (or is it aboot) the use of agriculture metaphors in wildlife management. Evidently the aboriginal people of the Yukon were some of the first to get upset over the use of the word "harvest".

Here is an interesting and long read. Maybe it will broaden your "world view" on the use of agriculture metaphors and wildlife management.

https://anthropology.cornell.edu/sites/ ... nimals.pdf


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[fairchaser]

It's interesting. Why don't we say harvesting cows or chickens? They are more of an ag crop than a wild animal. Words over time can change the pereception of things. Think about the use of "aborting a fetus" versus "killing a baby". This is how we dehumanize something too difficult to think about. We are killing a deer. Really we are committing premeditated cold blooded murder if you can murder an animal. I think it's amusing when non hunters ask if I caught anything when I've been hunting. It's too difficult to utter the word kill I guess so catch must feel better since they don't want to accuse me of killing something or being a murderer. Wouldn't it be funny if that same nonhunter asked if I murdered anything? I guess the term harvest doesn't really bother me after all.

 

[AT Hiker]

Why don't we say harvesting cows or chickens?.

My guess is we slaughtered animals long before wildlife management came about. In addition, cold you imagine how hard the politics of wildlife management would be if the term "annual slaughter report" was used. That's a term the greenies would use in a negative conation toward hunting, so maybe the bigger question is why is slaughter OK in livestock but not in wildlife?

I think at the end of the day most of us get it, I just think the chapter I linked does a good job of explaining why "harvest" is used in wildlife management. I'm guessing many people don't know that history.


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[Mike Belt]

I prefer killed or shot or took over harvest but it really makes no difference to me. When I was working my co workers (90% blacks) knew when I went deer hunting and would regularly ask if I caught anything. I always told them no because they were too fast.

 

[Os2 Outdoors]

Can't get it to open. Might be my end

It comes up a lot and our neighbors to the far North are not immune to the criticism either.
Leave it up to the Canadians to get a whole chapter dedicated about (or is it aboot) the use of agriculture metaphors in wildlife management. Evidently the aboriginal people of the Yukon were some of the first to get upset over the use of the word "harvest".

Here is an interesting and long read. Maybe it will broaden your "world view" on the use of agriculture metaphors and wildlife management.

https://anthropology.cornell.edu/sites/ ... nimals.pdf


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[TheLBLman]

I have a friend in Michigan, anytime she hears I've been hunting,
invariably asks, "Did you catch anything?" :tu:

My usual answer is similar to Mike Belt's, or
sometimes, yes, I got one and brought it home!

As a matter of fact, yes, just got back from the Far North,
caught a passel of pike, a muskie, and a big bear!
Her next question: "What's a passel?" :mrgreen:

 

[AT Hiker]

https://anthropology.cornell.edu/sites/ ... nimals.pdf


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[AT Hiker]

Not sure why it's not opening. Google "we don't harvest animals we kill them". That's the title to the Cornell chapter


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