Hiya Sevendogs, been a while...
Many folk who quote the small % of folk actively involved in hunting somehow manage to not mention:
1)the number of folk who don't hunt, but have no problem with others doing so. My lady friend is a classic example. She enjoys target shooting with firearms but has no interest in hunting. Note; she was a vegetarian for 10 years. She calls herself a 'recovering vegetarian.'
Some surveys of the genral population have approval ratings for hunting as high as 80%.
According to one source I found, americans consumed more then 750 million pounds of wild game annually; that would be on the order of 2 million cattle. Anyone seriously believe it's only hunters chowing down so?
I recall a survey, taken not that long back, concluded that about 4% of the population identified themselves as vegatarian/vegan, in the U.S. That compares very closely to the number who actively hunt. Interestin', eh?
In conclusion; perhaps Ante can tell us the difference between hunting by humans or hunting by animals;
If a human killing a animal is a act of terror; is a wolf tearing the guts out of a preganant deer, while said doe is still alive, any less a act of terror?
Feel up to explaining the difference, Ante?
