Jayme nice post. You pretty much echoed my beliefs. I grew up with a family who hunted and fished for most of our protein. My dad was a Marine and also believed in the one shot kill and anything killed would be eaten. We didn't hunt for sport. The way he explained it to us was that we were the conservators of a series of populations whether that was ducks, geese, fish, deer, boar, rabbit, javalina, etc...and that our responsibility was to manage the herd on our land since the natural large predators were gone. To keep the balance of nature going. So we would look to shoot animals that we would not want breeding (i.e. in deer it would be spikes and small does, old bucks past their prime, etc.). It worked and we saw that by the build up of our herds of different wild life on our property that weren't there when we bought it. We only hunted in blinds and in accordance with the parks and wildlife seasons etc.
We broke down our own animals and even then we used darn near every part of an animal. And we broke them down immediately, not letting them sit. I still have some deer hides shot by my dad over 50 years ago!! All this was pointing to having respect for your food and raw ingredients, animal, mineral or vegetable! We also raised rabbit for food for quite awhile. So I guess I have differing views than someone who didn't grow up hunting.
I also believe that an animal should not be stressed during life or imminent death because of the hormones released due to that...
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