[melonpapes]

Originally Posted by mellonxcollie

Hunting. It's one thing to eat meat, but to want to go out and shoot it on your own is quite strange to me

Why not? In this way, you have full control in how the animal and its remains are treated, rather than being left out of the equation and having a factory or another hunter kill it for you. You can select your game appropriately by season, age, and sex, take the humane shot (hell, you can even hunt with a bow and arrow if you wanna challenge yourself and level the playing field), and dress the meat and remains according to your moral and culinary standards. I don't personally think I would ever hunt, because I wouldn't be able to deal with a corpse of an animal to get the bits I wanted. But I could see someone who is more comfortable with all that wanting to do it because it would give them complete control over where they're meat is coming from?

am not expert