>>When I was first married and living in Colorado, things were tight. We went Elk hunting and froze the meat and that was our protein for a year... I know people who still live off of protein each year from hunting...Not my choice if I can afford not to.
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>I've got no problem with hunting to eat. Kept a lot of my relatives alive during the Depression (and for hundreds of years before). I just personally am not drawn to killing for pleasure - or perhaps I should say indifference. Trophy hunting offends me. The psychology of "My God that's a magnificent animal - I want to kill it" just bothers me.
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>If I were hungry and had no other options I'd hunt for food without a qualm, because that would be participating in the system on its own terms.
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>My ideal safari to Africa would be to hunt poachers <s>

Can I go with you? Jeez, I mean, come on, sunnyside up or not at all.