First of all I truly respect the cohesiveness and clarity of veganism, the level of disconnect that our society has with their food sickens me just as it sickens you. I think that you're all coming from a good place and I respect that, I'd rather have a vegan over for dinner than someone who eats factory farmed meat all the time but then gets uncomfortable talking about it. I attempt to do everything as ethically as possible, I am against factory farming. I have pet hens that I love, they live a spoiled life, and in turn I get eggs from them. I grow my own veggies in the summer, what I don't grow I try to get locally. I eat beef occasionally but only from a local humane free range grass fed farm (which i still don't feel good about from a moral standpoint, but it's better than the alternative), and I hunt rabbit, grouse, deer, bear moose to feed myself and my family. The reason I made the thread is because I'm sick of being verbally attacked or made out to be an asshole by vegans I have encountered both in real life and on the internet when I put so much work into procuring meat ethically, and I want to try and change vegans views on hunting. I don't wish to convert anyone because it would be better for our environment if everyone was vegan, and once again I respect the choice. However, I, living in a rural area of Canada where there is an abundance of animals and a lack of people, choose to hunt to eat, just as my father did, as his father before him did, as his father before him did and so on. Hunting isn't easy, you don't just walk into the woods and shoot something. It takes time, dedication and skill to learn the animals behaviour, scout an area and try to plan where the animals might be, find the animal, stalk the animal etc.... Then there is the countless hours of practice that goes into marksmanship so I can guarantee a clean kill. It's not that I enjoy killing animals or that I'm doing it for fun, it's a connection to nature, to tradition, to my food... And I don't think that it should be demonized.