Big game trophy hunting pisses me off, but what's wrong with harvesting your own meat? Yea it doesn't say much about their manliness, but still, how is it any different than going to the butcher? Well, the difference is that you know where the meat came from, it's fun for some people, and when procuring meat nowadays, it is actually sort of cool to get involved a little earlier in the process.
Why should some minimum wage cow-killer in a slaughterhouse kill your meat if you're willing to go out and do it yourself? The animal is dead either way, so what's wrong with going out and doing it yourself?
Shooting a penned up deer isn't something I'd go around bragging about but you have to admit, it is just a tiny bit cooler than just going to the butcher. If nothing else, it proves that you freely admit that if you want to eat meat, something's gotta die, and you're willing to do the killing yourself if necessary.
I have friends who eat meat but who also say they'd willingly starve if they had to kill the animal themselves. That's pretty sad...
