By your own admission you have proved that you kill wildlife for pleasure, by pointing out the fact that your food requirements are available at the supermarket, you have negated any other reason for your wanton blood lust.
I agree with you in respect to intensive rearing of animals for our food, but, unfortunately this has become a necessity born out by the huge amount of mouths it has to feed worldwide. Not so the killing for pleasure or hatred of our scarce and in some cases extremely rare wildlife, no necessity there, just the neanderthal lust to kill something that can't fight back. Just because you may be able to eat some of the wildlife you kill doesn't make it right, especially when you don't need to, you can buy all your food requirements pre-packaged in the supermarket.
As for being hypocritical, dumb or ignorant, some maybe, but then, not all of us. Many of us can see the carnage and devastation that's being heaped on our wildlife and the environment by the so-called 'sporting men' who think nothing of producing Pheasants, Partridge and Grouse in such unnaturally large numbers that the normal eco system cannot support them without interference from man. They then sytematically destroy everthing with an hooked beak or a claw in the bigoted belief that they have the right because they are a threat to their artificially supported game birds.
This may well have been the common practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but this is the 21st century and the Victorians died out over a hundred years ago. A very large majority of us want to see the birds of prey prosper unmolested and unpersecuted, we deplore your archaic blood sport, especially as you think the only way you can sustain it is by killing off all the magnificent birds of prey. Although we don't like it, many of us would probably tolerate it if you weren't so hell bent on exterminating the predators, in particular the rare and so-called protected Raptors.
nirofo.
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