Ryan outfits 10 yr old daughter with deer-hunting gear (gave her rifle as gift at age 9)

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232. Deer overpopulation is a big problem

and while I am not a hunter, for the most part I have no problem with hunting. I say for the most part because I am against the whole trophy hunting thing.

But I would still rather have a deer killed with a well aimed bullet that ended the suffering quickly than to be side swipped by a car and suffer with an injury or die a slow death due to starvation because of overpopulation.

I am trying to be a vegetarian (99% of my diet is meat free) and a big part of that decision is the condition of how animals are treated in feed lots and commercial farms. The cruelty of a lifetime of being forced in a cage or overcrowded up to their knees in their own feces, force fed corn meal that is not normally their diet - that to me is worse than an animal who has lived most of its life free and wild until one brief moment when it is killed by a skilled hunter.