Just curious as to why people choose to say the word "harvest" in relations to killing an animal when the word harvest in the dictionary is defined as the season for gathering agricultural crops. I am in no way casting stones at anyone that says harvest, just curious as to why. As for me I say kill not harvest but when watching these new hunting shows their phrases have a tedency to rub off on me.
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Yep....Smoked Em!
Harvest vegetables.Comment
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Its dumb if you ask me!! Attempt at PC!
You harvest corn! You kill animals. My .02cents I will not dog anyone for saying it I just think it is dumb.Comment
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It's a kill, I harvest my tomatoes. All part of being "sensitive" to others' feelings.Comment
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Because the word kill offends people. Harvest makes stupid people think the animal was raised or is there for one reason..to become food, like a crop.Comment
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Stay strong! Either that or stop watching hunting shows.Originally posted by Duckhead78 View Post
"Harvest" is for millennials or wormy men (or fur-lined underwear women) who are too limp-wristed to tell their non-hunting friends that they are cold-blooded killers. Might as well tell folks they "caught" a deer/pig/squirrel etc.
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Originally posted by mastercraftka View Post
I agree with you even though Merrium Webster does not.
Definition of harvest (Entry 2 of 2)
transitive verb
1a : to gather in (a crop) : reap harvesting corn
b : to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (salmon, oysters, deer, etc.) for human use, sport, or population control
c : to remove or extract (something, such as living cells, tissues, or organs) from culture (see culture entry 1 sense 3) or from a living or recently deceased body especially for transplanting
2a : to accumulate a store of has now harvested this new generation's scholarly labors— M. J. Wiener
b : to win by achievement the team harvested several awardsComment
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I think saying "Harvest" is a way of giving in to the animal rights lobby and placating their sensitivities. I say "kill" because that's what you're doing. Killing is what's necessary to get the meat in the table. I do not say "Harvest Shot" when referring to an accurately place shot that puts the animal down. I heard that the other day on a YouTube video.
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Last season my daughter and I were on a TYHP hunt. The huntmaster made it clear that we don't "kill" deer we "Harvest" deer. He said, "I don't want to hear the word kill all weekend." "It's harvest." I told I'm in front of everyone that "I only brought a rifle and not a tractor so I'm not sure what we are going to do." A few people laughed, he didn't.
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Because in the English language, there are words that can have multiple meanings.
Did you “fly” to Hawaii? I thought a “fly” was a bug.
There are other words that only have one meaning. Mom, why is that hillbilly so “uneducated?”
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Well said Sir!Originally posted by Fishndude View PostBecause in the English language, there are words that can have multiple meanings.
Did you “fly” to Hawaii? I thought a “fly” was a bug.
There are other words that only have one meaning. Mom, why is that hillbilly so “uneducated?”Comment
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