allright... I am a hunter and really enjoy hunting. I am very very against fox hunting or any other cruel form of hunting. I know a lot of you are one way or the other but there is a middle ground where many hunters stay. I believe, like most responsible hunters, that the object in hunting is to take down an animal as fast and as humanely as possible. Sure that may sound dumb to people because the animal is still being killed but it is better than fox hunting. I've been on several hunting trips where we will pass on deer if we can't get a clean shot. I would never shoot or kill an animal if it would cause the animal to suffer. Yes i know... i am still killing an animal even if it doesn't suffer. But I love meat, especially deer meat! Its much more tender and flavorful in my opinion. To me I'd rather eat something that I killed as humanely as possible rather than eating some processed piece of meat where a cow was electrified and was slit by the throat to bleed to death. Yes I know that some of you don't agree with killing animals period. But try and understand that many hunters like me do it for other resons than you may think. We like meat and we will eat meat regardless if you think its terribly wrong. So... would you rather us kill a deer with one swift shot making the death of the animal as painless and instant as possible, or would you rather us eat cows that are brutally slaughtered? I know you don't agree with either but please tell me that you would pick responsible hunting over a sluaghter house. And I do think that the methods of fox hunting are wrong.
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