John sent this to me over MySpace. It’s worth copying to a folder you have easy access to, and pasting it as a response whenever somebody uses “harvest” in regard to shooting or slaughtering animals.
“There’s that word again (harvest)! We persist in using the euphemism wherever the slaughtering of attractive animals is being talked about. Dammit, we kill them. We slaughter them, just like we slaughter cattle. We catch them in steel traps or blow them down with shotguns. We rip off their hides and wear their furs or hang their heads on den walls. We KILL THEM, we don’t harvest them!! Someday we’ll all grow up and face that reality.”
-Robert James Waller, author of The Bridges of Madison County
