Homophobia is literally beaten into men. Not all men obviously, but we shouldn’t be surprised when some men act irrationally around wearing pink.
I haven’t read the article though because of the pay wall.
Eh… Hot pink was very popular among males and females alike in the 80’s. I wasn’t even aware that they make hunting gear with hot pink instead of orange, and a lot of other people probably aren’t aware either. Besides that, they’d need to do a bunch of field testing to see how the deer react to it before any serious hunters would consider it. Even with field testing, there are a lot of hunters that don’t want to wear orange.
This headline could be re-written as “Additional colors approved for visibility while hunting in select states”, but that doesn’t have conflict built into it, which generates clicks and engagement.
As a former hunter, I was intrigued, so I did a bit of searching. Most of the articles suggested that the testing had been done and that hot pink might actually be superior to blaze orange. It’s supposedly more visible to humans and less visible to the main big game animals.
Time to go get some free T-Mobile swag for use as hunting attire!
Just be careful out there! Apparently bears have vision comparable to humans, making hot pink more visible to them than blaze orange.
Firefox in desktop mode, click the Immersive Reader icon next to the URL bar. it strips out script bullshit and just lets you read the article.
Got a source that doesn’t have a paywall?
Or a paywall-free archived version?
Firefox in desktop mode, click the Immersive Reader icon next to the URL bar. it strips out script bullshit and just lets you read the article.
Serious question, why would I wear hot pink if I’m hunting?
I’m not a hunter but I do occasionally wear pink. I assumed hi-viz orange was the go-to color…unless camouflage I guess.
The goal of blaze orange or hot pink is to be visible, it’s a safety feature to make it clear to anyone you are a human not a deer, also it makes you more visible from the air for Department of Natural Resource to identify you and track hunting activities.
I have no problem with wearing pink at any time. Even though I don’t hunt, I do hike and often share the trail with hunters. I’d still prefer orange simply because I’m mildly red-green colorblind, and I can see orange more easily than pink.
I’m also colorblind.
In university I used to wear what I thought was a dark blue oxford shirt until someone said “wow, it’s really brave of you to wear that shirt”, which is when I learned it was a strong purple.
I was mortified because growing up I got called gay (which was very much an insult at the time) and made fun of a lot.
I didn’t wear it for a while after, but eventually I got over it and the girls seemed to like it, I got asked out by a number of them over the lifetime of that shirt. I put on weight and it got pit stains and I had to throw it away.
Nobody ever made fun of me forwearing that shirt, at least not to my face.
Sounds like we’re near the same age. :)
I was hesitant to wear pink or purple in high school for the same reasons. In college, though, I stopped caring. And as you say, they were good colors for my social life. :)
Purple’s a great color for nice clothes! My favorite polo is a nice, deep purple, and I have a few button downs that are lighter shades of purple too. But yeah, back in the 90s that was definitely a “gay” color, and that was 100% meant as an insult at the time.
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I wouldn’t know to look out for it. You might get shot.
Yeah, see I always shoot at the animals wearing pink vests.
Isn’t there a colorblindness that makes distinguishing green from pink difficult? 🤔
Pink is a girl color!
– hunters, probably.
“I’ve been wearing the same blaze orange jacket for ten years, I’m not buying a new one just because it’s pink.”
-hunters, probably
People shouldn’t be hunting in the first place. Toxic masculinity (toxic humanity really) thinks killing/exerting power over a weaker innocent is a good thing though
People hunt because it is cheaper and more ethical than cow.
In the west most people hunt for fun of it, let’s be honest. Personally I don’t think there is anything wrong with it as long as it’s done in sustainable way.
i don’t have the stats, but if I had to bet, I’d bet that most people do not hunt for that reason, and they end up spending more than they would otherwise
also, almost nobody in the US needs to eat cows or any other animals. Lentils are cheaper than all of the above, and that’s without looking at externalities like climate impact
Growing up rural and poor, venison was the difference between everyone eating well or my parents having to skip meals. A box of shotgun shells cost $10 and if we took 2 or 3 deer it would be enough to fill a chest freezer and last most of the year, also we would trade it with local farmers for vegetables and watermen for seafood.
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I can understand why people with no other choice would hunt. If there are other options though, it’s unnecessary killing and violence
White tail deer must be killed, we have broken their habitat.
Over the last 400 years Millions of acres of Forrest have been converted to planes and farmland, and most of the large North American predators have been killed.
So instead of deer having to forrage in Forrest they can be eat more effectively by grazing, and without natural predators like wolves the deer population can grow unchecked. Deer will reproduce until the area can’t support the population leading to starvation. Also the deer population has let them spread to new areas where they can out compeat animals like moose, elk, and caraboo, causing the larger animals population to plummet.
Do you think the same strategy should be applied to feral housecats? How about overpopulating humans?
This is apples to oranges to cucumbers.
We probably should cull and/or spay feral cats because they do have a large measurable ecological impact.
We shouldn’t cull humans for the obvious ethical reasons, but we should try harder to treat the planet right.
There are plenty of programs out there to capture and spay/neuter feral cats.
It’s always bothering me when people don’t have more empathy towards their fellow humans than to other spices.
A processed deer including tag, skinning, and butchering ends with 70lbs and costs about $300. 70lbs of processed beef costs $800-900. You can cut those prices in half if you butcher the deer yourself or buy a primal beef and butcher that yourself.
We wiped out their natural predators to protect livestock and pets. Leaving deer population unchecked leads to crop destruction(incliding soy and lentils) as well as deer suffering from famine.
Cows are absolutely an environmental nightmare and factory farmed in an abhorrent manner. Deer that are part of the natural ecosystem and lived nice and mostly healthy natural lives free of steroids and antibiotics are not abused ecological nightmares.
Lentils require many acres of farmland that ruin the local ecology, far more if you grow them without pesticides and fertilizers that cause their own ecological disasters including the loss of insect populations and algae or plankton blooms that release carbon and kill ocean and river ecology. Can’t harvest all of those lentils without 3rd world near slave labor or carbon emitting farm equipment. Harvesting pesticides, GMO, and fertilizer free crops without carbon emitting machinery by using fair wage paid people would increase the cost of the end product to far exceed viability.
Hunting is cheaper and more ethical than factory farms and veganism. Advocate insect farming as an ethical, sustainable, and environmental food source instead of ruining the environment with misguided vegan or vegitarianism.
If deer overpopulation is the problem, catch-neuter-release is more ethical than killing them.
I don’t know the specifics on lentils, but if we stopped feeding so damn much of our crops to other animals, we wouldn’t need so much cropland and it wouldn’t be as big of a problem and we could use better practices on the land we do grow crops on. I don’t remember the exact number, but something like 80% of the soy we grow gets fed to exploited animals. And when you look at trophic levels, it makes sense. Only like 10% of the energy from one level makes it to the next, so eating other animals will always be inefficient and unsustainable on a mass scale. If everyone hunted and ate the same amount of dead animals as they do now it would be catastrophic for local ecosystems.
it always amazes me when people would rather eat insects than plants. Grasping at any straw to avoid eating your veggies
I know your augment is ethical but its easier to catch a neuter cats since they literally come up to me feeding them. Cat traps are small and they just walk right in and then we bring them to a vet. Deer kind of run away so shooting on sight and eating them seems more efficient. I know Staten island was sterilizing them and it was expensive. 3.3mil to bring down pop 700 deer in 3 years seems like alot. Of course, if hunters are not eating the deer that’s a dbag move if they killed it.
I never heard anyone wanting to eat bugs unless it’s shrimp and the like. That crazy if you know people like that. eat salad people! I knew a guy who refused to eat fruit. Like wtf man.
Yeah, doing the right thing is usually more expensive. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth it
i usually hear it in discussions like this, where people think cheap, sustainable, high protein, plant based foods are lacking. Beans and nuts and legumes are right there lol
Yeah shame we live in a system where we have to make the choice. Personally, I think the money is better on human birth control. Takes longer to see results but reducing human pop to only wanted planned children will yield more environmental bonuses.
Lol “plant protein lacking! Alpha only eats bugs!” Naaa I’ll take nuts and beans.
