| mrstickball said:
Yeah there is. Because free-range animals that are shot are fed 100% natural ingredients, and are given a more humane death than most farm raised animals. I would rather eat a free-range animal that was given a natural habitat, instead of living in a pen and fed various feeds to fatten itself up. Furthermore, they are not 'poor' animals. In the State of Ohio, deer populations are culled through legal hunting at pre-determined times each year. If it were not for these hunts, the deer would become overpopulated, which would require massive government intervention to ensure the populations were culled. If they were not culled, the deer would face starvation, disease and other such maladies. Farmers would also face damages from such animals, that feed on their grains which further tax the population. Therefore, legal hunting is a win-win propostion: The government doesn't have to spend money on actively culling the popluations, hunters get millions of pounds of 'free' food, and the deer population continues to live in its natural habitat, away from being herded and castrated by the wildlife agencies. |
I just wanted to add that living in Alberta I know a handful of hunters and while they enjoy hunting as sport most of them eat the animals they kill; or at least keep as much of the animal as they can make use of and give the rest away. I don't (exactly) know what the costs are, but even with all costs associated with hunting a deer gives you far more meat than you could buy in a store for a similar amount of money ...
