I think people have the wrong idea about hunting and what's entailed. It can be done humanely, I know this because I hunt humanely.
Someone once called me cruel for hunting, she was eating bacon and eggs at the time. I brought up a video on YouTube of an abattoir that processed (killed and prepared) pigs to show her. She couldn't watch it, but was happy to finish her bacon and eggs.
Like you in your last paragraph, people are quick to judge a hunter but forget to remember that the meat they eat is slaughtered. Like you say, it makes you feel better about yourself for someone else to do the killing.
Hunting inhumanely is reprehensible, as are some of the techniques used in abattoirs where animals are processed for consumption. I feel content with how I hunt as I know. Responsible and humane.
I think pork is so much more harmful and I humane. In holland, they use gas to kill the pigs, they die screaming out of panick. and I totally agree that hunting is the most natural way of eating meat and the animal doesn't have to suffer. One bullet and they are dead before they know.
However, that I know this doesn't mean that my heart agrees. It is a cultural difference. Me and my friends even used to save mouses from cats as kids. I know it is weird but it was totally normal for me and the kids from the village I grew up in.
If my parents would have learned me how to hunt, I would have probably felt different about it. But I am not against hunting. I think that's how nature is supposed to work.
Abattoirs are not nice places and I think many people would feel uncomfortable going there and seeing what happens...and yet they still eat meat and say things like, hunting is cruel. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but people are mostly weird.
Yeah I also don't understand that. I am barely eating meat by the way, just a few occasions a year. But I feel it isn't bad to eat animals from a small farms (if they are butchered well) or hunted animals which have lived a free life. We do have in Holland the "most efficient" farms they say (it is a hoax). We export a lot of pork for example. This "pork farms" are in giant buildings with sometimes up to 20000 pigs inside. Than you know something is wrong. Things should really change.
Yeah I agree with you, it's time for some change, but humanity has a voracious appetite (for most things) and have become very ignorant of the world around them and the other things that live in it. (Environment, plants and animals.) It's rather alarming really.