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In reply to the discussion: I would like to announce that as a young person I hunted for food [View all]yardwork
(69,303 posts)Maybe it's because I grew up in a rural area, but I've never had any problem with people who hunt for food. I don't - I don't own guns and never learned to shoot. But I do eat meat - chicken, turkey, fish - and it seems to me that I would be a real hypocrite if I gave people a hard time for shooting their own food rather than going to the grocery store to buy it. The conditions under which most meat is produced are far, far more horrific than shooting.
When I read your subject line I thought that you meant that you foraged for food when you were a child. I know that people have to do that, too. In the wealthiest country in the world, the true sin is that people are starving and a lot of us not only don't give a damn but are actively trying to take away what little government support there is.