JAPAN: TV: FEMALE HUNTING NUMBERS EXPLODE WHILE MALE POPULATION BECOMES EMASCULATED.

Описание: As the hunting fraternity shrinks due to age and rural depopulation and Japanese males having more interest in handbags and hairstyles than primal instinct of being a man, Japanese women are being recruited to help protect farms against rising numbers of wild deer, bears and boars viewed as pests by farmers.
Chiaki Kodama blows her deer whistle and soon a male deer wanders into sight. She slowly takes aim and squeezes the trigger.

Moments later, Kodama and a friend on her first hunt are tracking the wounded animal through the forest.

"Look for the trail of blood," advised Kodama as they set off on a mountainside in Japan's Fukui prefecture.

The 28-year-old hairdresser and city councillor is among a small but growing number of Japanese women entering the male-dominated world of hunting, where it was once taboo for men to even speak to a woman before going on a hunt.

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Megumi says - I’ll be honest, I used to think hunters were bad, perceiving “them” as nothing but blood thirsty, stuck in a barbaric past, something not relevant in today’s society…..and now I’m out nearly every weekend hunting for my own meat…. And I can’t get enough of it.

What happened and why?

If you told me years ago I would be a passionate bow hunter or gun owner and hunter, my jaw would have dropped. I was scared of guns! A free spirited nature loving girl that could never kill, let alone gut and skin an animal!

I had struggled with being a meat eater, because of my beliefs so for a time I abstained from animal-derived foods because I cared about the consequences of my eating; I did this for several years.

After three long years I realised that my heath and sanity were suffering because of the lack of iron, protein and a good feed. I craved meat. I hated going to BBQs and smelling the sweet smell of roasting meat, I can personally tell you that dry lentil burgers just didn’t cut it.

Who was I kidding I love a good steak. I grew up with steak, pate, homemade sausages and roasts.

I wanted to eat meat again, but was struggling with ethical and environmental issues that surrounded meat production of factory farmed caged animails.

This all changed when I was discovered the health benefits of deer and pig in supermarkets. “Deer is virtually carbon neutral thanks to their unique digestive system. They are at harmony with their natural environment and have very little impact upon the land compared to domesticated livestock. Plus water consumption per kilo of edible meat is 70 per cent less than sheep and almost 90 per cent less than beef is another great advantage”.

Great! I started to feel better about my food choices. I also added free range back into my diet, trying where possible to buy only locally sourced produce. I was becoming a part of a food movement that I could believe in.

But a part of me still knew someone was doing the dirty work for me. I needed to woman up and take responsibility for my meat consumption. I wanted to look the animal in the eye and know that I could handle the reality behind eating an animal, to confront that internal emotional and moral difficulty.

So I took up hunting and harvesting my own meat where I could.

It was a lot harder than I first imagined to obtain a gun licence, and to my surprise a gun didn’t just shoot itself. It was hard work to get a good consistent target shot. I joined a shooting club and to this day I still shoot target and silhouettes to hone my skills.

Since then, I haven’t looked back, I love shooting. I now own a centrefire, magnum and my trusty 22 Bruno. I also go out clay pigeon shooting whenever I have the chance and the recoil kick doesn’t worry me a bit.

The shooting community have shown to be incredibly supportive, generous in their time and knowledgeable in what they pass on. Most proving to be responsible ethical hunters, passionate about what they do, from the equipment they use, to the techniques they practice.

I am proud to say to this day I have not experienced any sexism, instead I find farmers, sharpshooters and hunters alike, supportive and encouraging having women in their mist, there are no barriers.

So where are all the rednecks? The tobacco chewing hicks? The so called animal haters? Well I am sure they exist, but in my experience in the minority. Most hunters are just like me. Educated, socially aware, animal loving hunters that want honesty brought back to their lives.

Hunters in general, care about ethical, sustainable hunting; humanely harvested animals directly from their natural environment without ever having been confined or handled by man. Hormone, antibiotic, free range and as organic as it gets. My husband, Jim and I love the taste of game meat.

Hunting for me is not just about being responsible about my food, its reaches much deeper than that. It’s in my blood.