The 'Illegal Migrants Eating Pets' Commentary Has Become Even More Absurd

justmindy | 3:10 PM on September 10, 2024

For a couple of days, Twitter has been in an uproar over stories of migrants eating geese from local parks and even neighborhood cats. The stories are beginning to take on a life of their own at this point. It's reached the point where sympathizers are trying to pretend seeing a man carry a dead goose down the street is just normal behavior.

This is what meat looks like in its natural state. It's just that some immigrant in a slaughterhouse plucked and gutted yours so you don't have to think about what the animal looked like before you ate it. https://t.co/t8ahmEhRLo
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 10, 2024

Obviously, yes, it is true. Animals don't show up at the grocery store butchered and packaged without a whole lot of human intervention. By the same token, even if people are hunting for their own meat, whether that be duck or deer, there are hunting licenses and tags to purchase. People aren't supposed to go shoot up the ducks in their neighborhood pond without a permit.

Geese season doesn't open until the end of October. Do you know what happens if you hunt geese out of season without the proper gun, without buying stamps? You go to jail and they confiscate your property.

"You don't know where he got it from!"

I know he got it illegally. https://t.co/M3GVllYkJ2
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 10, 2024

All of this, of course, it to ensure some species don't go extinct as a result of over hunting and also to make sure people aren't shooting off guns and bows in populated areas.

Megan is very near the peak. . She thinks she is informed on meat and hunting but she actually has no idea what she is talking about. She will likely check out and ignore everything before fully descending into the valley of despair. https://t.co/8oHhgCVTo8 pic.twitter.com/8Hui0umWxa
— ben (@ben_bagelbites) September 10, 2024