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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
You make a good point. There could certainly be some crossover in terms of doing it for necessity but also enjoying the satisfaction, etc.
If a person told me that instead of going to the store to buy his meat, he prefers to hunt because the meat is much healthier, and he also gets some satisfaction out of it, I wouldn't have a problem with that. In reality, that is probably a much better death for the animal than an animal in a slaughterhouse would have.
I just don't like the people that think it is fun to shoot an animal and take its life. Could I tell you the percentage of hunters who fall into that category? No, I couldn't but I know there are a lot of them. I haven't talked to hundreds of hunters but I've talked to enough of them to know that there are plenty of them out there. They usually won't admit that they enjoy killing the animal but when it isn't too hard to figure out. Practically none of these people have told me that they hunt because the meat is healthier and they use this meat in place of buying meat.
Now it is possible that hunters from big cities hunt for a different reason than hunters who live in rural areas. I don't deny that.
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I don't think it matters what the reason the hunter kills the animal or if he enjoys killing it. As long as he is hunting legally and the animal is not wasted what does it matter?