I don't know a single person who doesn't eat the animal the animals they hunt, or at the very least give the food to someone after they kill it.

I'm pretty sure that's actually illegal in the US outside making the occasional trophy.

Afterall hunter's have limits to protect the national population.  To count limits you need to bring the stuff with you.

Well....

A. No country exists where nobody is poor and nobody doesn't get enough to eat.

B.  The markets adjust for these kind of things.

C. Again, look up factory farming.  Which is really worse?  Shooting an animal that's lived a normal life it's entire life, or keeping an animal in a pen roughly the size of the animal itself for years... feeding it substandard food that may include dead pieces of it's own race... until eventually you kill it via a large metal object to it's head without any painkillers.  (It's hard to explain a cattle killer.)

You don't know people who hunt for sport?

No. And neither do I. I know dozens of hunters. Yes, there is a sport element involved (the thrill of the hunt), but they all use the meat to feed their families. I know many, though, that fish for sport and throw back their catch, which I never understood. Usually, you can find a few good hunters that will provide much deer to their friends and families, especially in times of need, since the meat usually keeps for a few years in freezers.

It must be a cultural thing. When you live in an area that hasn't been urbanized for thousands of years, have a government that allows you to own firearms, and a pretty strong population of great animals to hunt, people tend to do it, and enjoy it. 

It also brings you to respect nature and animals far more than simply going to the supermarket and buying a steak dinner. When you actually view the animal you shoot, kill, and carve up, you respect its life, and try to honor them with a clean kill (much like the indians did when they hunted in the same areas centuries ago). I think one of the reasons we care so little about factory farming is that we've detatched ourselves far and away from what it takes to actually raise or hunt food.

There's a sporting aspect to it, sure, but they all eat what they kill or give it to someone else.

What about people who kill animals and then have them stuffed / turned into trophies?

People might have the head mounted or something, but pure trophy hunting certainly isn't common around here. Probably because we don't have much to hunt other than deer and birds.

I can't say I'm a fan of the practice of trophy hunting for the sake of trophy hunting. But if I ever killed a rabid bobcat or something like that for a good reason, I might have it stuffed. As it is, I just hunt trophies on my PS3.

This is quite odd. Western Pennsylvania is heavily hunting country, but i don't know anyone that seriously eats venison (or even likes it). If they eat the deer, it's for deer jerky, which is hardly any sort of serious sustenance.

Though this argument's gone severely off-topic. I'm no fan of guns in the home, just because of the tendency to lead to tragedy (mostly either suicidal or accidental), and i'm a stringent foe of guns that have no viable purpose other than aggressively killing lots of people (assault weapons and the like), but hunting i feel is ultimately a benign cultural thing, and should be left alone, though ideally i'd have some technique for isolating hunting rifles outside the home

Accidental I can see, though accidental gun deaths are very low.

But suicidal?  It's not like people say "Oh I want to kill myself, but darn it... I don't have a gun."

I would also mention that if those are his views (left of center), I would imagine he may not be in the type of kill-it-and-eat-it crowd, and is unlikely to know people that are serious about both hunting for food. I live close to him (central Ohio), and can say that we hunt likely as much as western PA, and everyone does it for food.