Okay, I’m as much a fan of recycling as much as the next guy, but isn’t this taking things to a bit of an extreme? There are two points about this program that I find particularly entertaining:
- They only want tails from squirrels that have been “harvested for the table”. This is in theory a good thing, preventing teams of professional squirrel harvesters from heading out in gangs, flushing herds of squirrels ahead of them while shooting indiscriminately into the mass of panicked rodents. Then the harvesters go back and take only the tails, leaving the rest of the body to rot in the midday sun in a scene reminiscent of the buffalo hunts of the mid to late 1800’s (somewhere, an Indian is crying). By limiting it to those who eat squirrel, one would guess they are interested only in getting tails from people in Appalachia and the deep south. And what’s with the word “harvested”? It makes it sound as if somewhere in West Virginia there are vast squirrel orchards, where millions of squirrels grow on trees (or do you think they grow underground like potatoes?). I bet there’s a big influx of migrant workers who come in every year to help with the harvest…
- At the bottom, there’s a little note on the limited need for white tail deer tails. So “if you have more than 250 of them, please let us know and we will send a purchase order for the number we can use”. My question – WHO WOULD EVER HAVE THAT MANY WHITE TAIL DEER TAILS? I would hope that if anyone did take them up on that offer they would send out the ASPCA or PETA because someone is obviously running through the forest cutting the tails off of random deer out of spite in a desperate attempt to make their fortune selling them to bait companies.
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