Wounded Animal's Needless Suffering  RECEIVED Wed., Dec. 5, 2012
Dear Editor,     Although I do not hunt or eat meat, I
appreciated Jessi Cape’s honest account of her hunting class
near Medina [“In the Blind,” Food, Nov. 30]. It is refreshing to
see a person who cares about food sustainability and actually
feels for her animal prey.     However, I am puzzled why Jessi
wants to continue to hunt after her first hunting experience.
Jessi and her instructor managed to gruesomely wound a boar (an
invasive species, but an intelligent and feeling creature
regardless) and then failed to track the pig down and end its
suffering. Jessi subsequently subjected the pig to hours of
unimaginable suffering by failing to efficiently kill it. Jessi
wrote that she cried, that she didn’t want the boar to suffer,
and at one point “gasped in horror” when the pig ran away.    
Surely Jessi will become a better shot in the future. But just
as surely there will be prey that will not be instantly killed
and will escape to needlessly