Did this, when I first left the army hunted food until I got back to work, my family ate wild game and thrived

I would only do it if I needed food. Not for sport

I practice field to table regularly. I accept the moral obligations that come with it and I do NOT shirk from those obligations. That means I take only sure shots that are quick and lethal. Then that means I go as absolutely far as I can to use every bit of the animal that I can and what I cannot make use of goes back to the forest where it belongs. I even save the marginally edible scrap to make dog treats, much to my dog's everloving joy.

Also, I recently switched to using all non-toxic lead free ammunition. I have read hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers on the subject and the evidence is clear that residual lead in the gutpile is a source of lead poisoning in raptors, particularly eagles.

And this is directly attributable to being a committed Rooseveltian conservationist that agrees with the North American Wildlife Conservation Model.

Grew up hunting and fishing on a farm. Taught to butcher cows, chickens, and deer from a young age. Chose being a vegan for health, environmental concerns and the way that farms currently raise animals with no dignity and much cruelty. When we raised animals on our farm they had good lives up until the end... Probably wouldn't eat meat today even if corporate farms raised animals humanely.

No

Can't and won't. I know people who do but not me.

People who eat animal cadaver are are rarely hunters, farmers, butchers, meat packers, fish gutters, shrimpers, inspectors or truck drivers taking terrified sentient animals to their deaths. My earliest memories hunting and fishing with my father includes watching the light of life go out in the eyes of dying rabbits, pheasants and quail I ran to capture their gunshot bodies bleeding in my hands where hunting dogs did not see to retrieve. That same year xmas of 1956, "Santa" gave my brother and I matching cowboy boots and cap guns looking like Colt 45 six shot revolvers but the trigger and hammer spun taped gunpowder to explode inch after inch when "shot"....the sound was exciting and I wondered how Santa got down our 6 inch chimney....none the less I refused to eat fried chicken legs, ground up cow meat called pigham "burgers" preferring hot dogs and baloney I had no clue where that food CAME FROM....SLICING a giant Turkey out of the oven, I wondered where the feathers went.... "Were some inside my pillow ?" I have been paid to perform all 8 jobs on my lines 2&3 above.....if all carnivore people were required to buy a hunting/fishing license and work those 8 jobs one day per year TO BUY THEIR "food" ....the wasteful food industry would have fewer customers and wildlife habitats would be restored and expanded closer to Native America of 1492

Humans are omnivores. When you grow up in a poor rural environment, you need the protein from game, fish and animals you raise to provide the protein you need to survive. Animals killing animals is a part of nature. Slaughtering huge numbers of animals is not. But, being completely a vegan is not a part of nature for humans.

I am a vegetarian and love all creatures and would not want to but from what I know a person will do anything if they are hungry enough and starving to death

Yes. I hunted at a young age. I never enjoyed the kill; just the walks in the woods. Quit at 20, but still eat meat. I've also worked on a farm as a young man. I could do so. It would not be enjoyable however. When I did hunt, I tried saying a Native American prayer thanking the animal. It didn't really ease my conscious. Depending on you you would ask - I was either a good hunter (Only ever took clean quick and safe shots) or a bad hunter ( didn't take too many shots and brought home few meals). I always ate what I killed and never had nor wanted a trophey. You have to remember my time and location. Just asking to go walk in the woods would elicit a weird parental response; but hunting was accepted. My brother hunted; my Dad, a war vet, never did, nor, even after 13 years in the army own a gun. Both he and my brother stressed safety.

I would definitely eat less meat, but I’ve no big moral objection to killing for food. At least I would know that there was at least an attempt to kill the animal humanely.

I eat meat but at this point in my life if I had to kill it I'd pass. No problem with fish though.

I have, but no longer. I'm vegan now.

Humans have been killing for thousands of years to get their meat and I have no problem with it. Yes I’d like to get my meat.

Yes, fresh meat tastes much better than stored meat to me (except in the case of aged beef). So I will still harvest deer, hog, turkey, and rabbit on rare occasions. I am an avid fisherman of all species. I regularly harvest shrimp, crab, clams, oysters, scallops, and conch from Florida's waters. I also enjoy the taste of fresh alligator tail when I can get it.

Probably not. But I'd miss it, and I might learn to do it.