hoopscoach
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I need some help from my community of hunters out there.
I have a friend who I encouraged to get into hunting because they love eating game meat and were very excited about filling their freezer. I helped them draw a ranching for wildlife cow tag and they also have a slam dunk doe tag for CO.
I process my own meat and don't like to have any waste so I take all the trimmings that "don't make the cut" for steaks or burger and grind it up separately as "dog burger". Things like silver skin, tendons and other trimmings that just wouldn't be good mixed in with ground meat. Anyway, I gave some of this "dog burger" to my friend and their dog LOVES it.
If they are successful this fall, my friend is now talking about cutting the up the backstraps and tenderloins and a few pounds of burger for their freezer and then just grinding the rest up to feed to their dog since they like it so much. I hunt to fill my freezer and about 90% of my diet consists of game meat so the idea of taking any of the edible meat and feeding it to a dog is blasphemy to me. I tried to explain to them that it's not right to knowingly shoot an deer or elk just to feed a large portion of it to the dog but they can't understand why that is questionable and my argument is falling on deaf ears. So, here are my questions:
Am I wrong in thinking this is an unacceptable use of such a delicious resource or should I mind my own business and let them do whatever they want with the meat?
If I'm not wrong, how can I explain it in a way that will convince them it's unacceptable?
Finally, if I can't convince them, should I still help them knowing what their plan is or should I take a stand and say, "if this is what you plan to do with the meat, then I don't want to be part of it and will not help you in the future with your hunts or process any animals". I did promise to help them this year and I always keep my promises but this is something I did not see coming. Am I making too big of a deal about this?
I would love some advice on this subject.....
I have a friend who I encouraged to get into hunting because they love eating game meat and were very excited about filling their freezer. I helped them draw a ranching for wildlife cow tag and they also have a slam dunk doe tag for CO.
I process my own meat and don't like to have any waste so I take all the trimmings that "don't make the cut" for steaks or burger and grind it up separately as "dog burger". Things like silver skin, tendons and other trimmings that just wouldn't be good mixed in with ground meat. Anyway, I gave some of this "dog burger" to my friend and their dog LOVES it.
If they are successful this fall, my friend is now talking about cutting the up the backstraps and tenderloins and a few pounds of burger for their freezer and then just grinding the rest up to feed to their dog since they like it so much. I hunt to fill my freezer and about 90% of my diet consists of game meat so the idea of taking any of the edible meat and feeding it to a dog is blasphemy to me. I tried to explain to them that it's not right to knowingly shoot an deer or elk just to feed a large portion of it to the dog but they can't understand why that is questionable and my argument is falling on deaf ears. So, here are my questions:
Am I wrong in thinking this is an unacceptable use of such a delicious resource or should I mind my own business and let them do whatever they want with the meat?
If I'm not wrong, how can I explain it in a way that will convince them it's unacceptable?
Finally, if I can't convince them, should I still help them knowing what their plan is or should I take a stand and say, "if this is what you plan to do with the meat, then I don't want to be part of it and will not help you in the future with your hunts or process any animals". I did promise to help them this year and I always keep my promises but this is something I did not see coming. Am I making too big of a deal about this?
I would love some advice on this subject.....