Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

(10-17-2021 03:45 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Good guesses, Gene and Michael, but Steve got it. Kudos, Steve! I was surprised when I read it because I had known of the old "turkey story" in which 8=year-old Abraham had shot and killed a turkey. Then, when he took a look at the dead turkey, he felt really bad. And I had (perhaps naively) thought that Lincoln never hunted afterwards. But, according to Indiana friend, David Turnham, Lincoln sometimes hunted on Sundays.

Well, but he wasn't a vegetarian, was he? If you eat meat, animals have to be killed (unless you only eat those who died from disease or old age). I personally think it weird that some people (a lot of actually) only eat meat when others do the killing. I also think in those days it was much more a natural need to survive. And it is a part of nature - some animals can only feed on meat. Like Lincoln's favorite ones - cats. You kill them when you try to make a vegetarian of them.