Having actually grown up on a farm, I realize that the meat we get in nice, neat plastic-wrapped packages at the grocery store comes with a huge helping of pain and suffering from livestock raised and manipulated their entire lives by humans, many of them who don't give a fuck about their general well-being. It's also much more sustainable than eating cattle or hogs fattened on herbicide and oil-dependent GM grain, pumping out massive amounts of methane and other pollutants from massive feedlots.
Hunting where possible helps offset all that while allowing me to get a bit of meat in my diet (I tried going vegetarian, and it was rough). And squirrel and rabbit hunting is a great way to do this, because the season is long (6 mo.), I don't need any specialized equipment, I avoid the crazy deer hunters who all cram into the woods for the few days they can hunt, and squirrels and rabbits are very common and tolerate hunting pressure well because they breed so fast. The money I spend helps protect forests and grasslands from being plowed under by farmers, and it's just fun to go walking in the woods on a nice autumn day. I'd suggest you try it sometime if you're concerned about the environment or animal welfare.
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