I too am new to hunting, and was raised to think that killing animals was bad.I spent my whole childhood and adolescence thinking it would be disgraceful to shoot an animal, then one day I realized just how hypocritical and backwards that was. Here's the thought that made up my mind to start hunting...
It is my belief that if you eat meat, and I mean everyone who eats meat, it is your duty to hunt at least once. In these modern times, we sit back and stuff our faces with all sorts of processed meat harvested from animals that lived terrible lives in terrible conditions. Those animals suffer their whole lives through. That, to me, is much worse than the time it takes an animal to die from a clean shot. We let faceless factories and machines raise, feed, kill and cut our meat. In many ways, I believe that is just part of the advancement of man's technology, and that's ok I suppose. However, if I am to support that, I feel that at some point I too must get my hands bloody.
I feel that we, as a society, have lost touch with what it is to consume meat. We have such convenience in our day to day meat eating, that we disgrace the animals which nourish our bodies by not respecting their lives and deaths. To overcome this, I think everyone should kill, dress, and eat at least one animal in order to understand our instinctive desire to eat meat.
It is our nature to hunt. None of us would be here today if our ancestors had not killed many animals.
It is my belief that if you eat meat, and I mean everyone who eats meat, it is your duty to hunt at least once. In these modern times, we sit back and stuff our faces with all sorts of processed meat harvested from animals that lived terrible lives in terrible conditions. Those animals suffer their whole lives through. That, to me, is much worse than the time it takes an animal to die from a clean shot. We let faceless factories and machines raise, feed, kill and cut our meat. In many ways, I believe that is just part of the advancement of man's technology, and that's ok I suppose. However, if I am to support that, I feel that at some point I too must get my hands bloody.
I feel that we, as a society, have lost touch with what it is to consume meat. We have such convenience in our day to day meat eating, that we disgrace the animals which nourish our bodies by not respecting their lives and deaths. To overcome this, I think everyone should kill, dress, and eat at least one animal in order to understand our instinctive desire to eat meat.
It is our nature to hunt. None of us would be here today if our ancestors had not killed many animals.