wild turkeys

Strangely fascinated by hunting magazines… Stumbled across a copy of the Wild Turkey Association’s magazine in a waiting room earlier today. Quite a few useful articles on conservation and land management… alongside the ads for guns of course, including hand guns for self defence. (Never thought I’d be talking about guns in this blog!) Now, even as a vegetarian I can appreciate that culling can be an important, even necessary, component of conservation, but all the same I find reading these magazines a weird experience. The overall impression: Hey, isn’t nature wonderful! Here’s how to attract wildlife to your land… and now let’s kill it!