I find people who criticise hunters and hunting, while an hour before they ate a hamburger or a piece of chicken, to be hypocrites of the worse kind.
Unless you are a complete vegetarian, you have absolutely NO room to criticise ANYone who kills an animal to eat it. If you eat meat, you are absolutely responsible for that animal's death. It makes not one bit of difference if you pulled the bow string or the trigger yourself, or if you went through the drive-thru at Burger King.
I do not like sport hunters, who kill an animal simply for the thrill of killing, or for the antlers. Horrid people.
But ANY one of us who eats meat is either a hunter themselves, or are simply paying a premium for food that someone else killed for them. Same thing.
At least, IMO, a wild animal has a normal, decent life before it is shot and killed. It roams free, it lives naturally with those of it's kind, it raises it's young, etc. An animal in a slaughterhouse has NO life whatsoever, only long months or years of torture before an often brutal death. If you are truly concerned about where your food comes from and how that animal "lived" before you ate it, do some research. You will appalled and sickened, and have a much greater respect for the individual hunter then.
My husband is a hunter and an animal lover--you can be both. My husband is also a First Nations man and hunts in many ways in keeping with that tradition. He even uses a bow and arrow sometimes (it's a special permit hunt up here to use that method). He won't take a bear because according to his medicine man he has a bear spirit so for him to kill a bear is like killing his brother.
OMG, Glacier .... you are living my dream. Do you want a roommate?? Better yet, does your hubby have a single brother? 
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) and you'd think I was some sort of evil maniac! Sheesh. My snake is not evil for eating mice, thank you and Im not evil for feeding him the closest aproximation to his native diet. 
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