" - the comparisons and suggestion appears to be that we may as well obtain as much sporting pleasure from the manner of their death as we can."

Well there you go, that is why this argument will never end, as people will take meanings and intentions that were never there, out of what other people say. Nobody has said that they do it for the enjoyment of any cruelty that may be involved, and that cruelty or lack of cruelty is a value judgement made by the persons involved on both sides of the argument. Most of the anti cruelty perceptions are arrived at by anthropomorphising the animals involved, and as most people don't even seem to be able to put themselves in another person's shoes, what price their judgement on behalf of dumb animals?
Giok