City slickers.
You people really ARE divorced from the natural world, aren't ya?
All you Yogies listen up. Those of you who are criticizing other posters for having the brass to kill their own meat, and yet are NOT vegetarians yourselves, are being hypocrites.
Take a good long look at those ducks (mainly mallards) and geese (mainly snows). That is the condition of every animal after it has been slaughered by your surrogate killer (A butcher) and before it has been plucked or skinned, eviscerated, cut up, packaged and placed in a cooler at your the local Piggly Wiggly. How did you THINK it got there?
The animals slaughtered for your culinary delight have NO chance of escape. Animals of the wild are free and alert and in excellent physical condition. Quite often they make you WORK for the kill. The rewards of a successfull hunt are the satisfaction of instinctive, atavistic needs buried in the human psyche. Our ancestors have hunted, and been hunted, for millions of years. Hunting is one of nature's tools for keeping herds balanced and preventing overpopulation.
You people are attempting to graft modern, new-age gaia ethics onto an ancient system that has always used killing as one of its tools. Nature is an AMORAL system, and no amount of human hand-wringing and angst is going to change that. EVERY predator ENJOYS the kill.
Grow a pair, do your own killing.....or become a vegetarian. You can't have it both ways.