move a bit closer to YOUR food chain and you might find a clue. you don't have the balls to do the dirtywork involved in getting your dinner and then have the nerve to make a judgment call on those who aren't affraid to get their hands dirty (bloody).
what makes a cows life so cheap compaired to a deer or an elk? as I see it hunting is much more kind and natural. the animals live their lives free, and one day nature runs it's course and they fall victim to a bigger preditor.
is it any less cruel for a wolf to rip out a deers throat, than to catch a .30-06 round to the heart? if so why?
have you ever been to a stock-yard, a slaughterhouse, or worse yet a poultry farm. there is no way that is a better life than a deer has.
the main issue facing deer populations in there isn't enough room for them. so unless you are willing to willingly reduce your own space to a 2' x 7' box 6' under you are more of a problem and less of a solution than the hunter.
if I had the time my family would eat nothing but wild game. no steroid or anti-biotic feed. no jamming them shoulder to shoulder or prettythang to nose in a dissease factory.
you think you consience is clean because you don't see the death? that the supermarket somehow makes you more noble?
I rarely see non-hunters go out in a bad winter, spend their own cash and truck feed out for wild animals, hunters do it all the time. most anti's do nothing more to help the wildlife population than piss & moan about the cruelty, while the hunter is thinning the herd down to a level the land can suport, removing excess bucks so that the herd itself has the most potential for new fawns in ratio to the available grazing.
you'd also see a lot less wasted food in this world if people had to get messy to eat. in the super market you can ignorantly choose, "I only want this cut, or that cut". the hunter see's the life he's taken, and knows it's value. if he's gonna waste any part of the body he has to throw it away himself, and face the waste. your local shopper just buys the cuts he wants and lets the local processing plant deccid whats worth eatting and what shoud be ground up as fertiliser, based on what they can get the picky eater to pay for.
educate youself on where your meals come from before you go making judgements on my lifestyle (hobbie?
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