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

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407. "canned hunts", while they certainly exist...

are not nearly as common as some here would have people believe. I admit that this may be perception/association bias, as I would be pretty unlikely to associate with people who engage in such activity. I think it's a "problem" that's being hyperbolized and blown out of proportion to it's actual percentage of hunting. A tactic used by all political partys, pretty equally, in my experience.

As for not need to do it for "survival", "so what?" if someone hunts who could otherwise afford to buy their food? As long as they eat what they kill, I would say it's more morally positive than buying neatly wrapped trays of industrial agriculture meat, as they have purposely not distanced themselves from knowing where their food comes from. I leave the debate about relative health of the meat source generally alone, as I see pros/cons to both sides.