The problem, Backwoodsman, is that some of the more hard-charging animal rights advocates don't know the difference, and equate the two.

My friend's friend with the record moose head, wasn't hunting for food, he was hunting for trophies. A sort of "head-hunter." Did he eat the rest of the moose? That never came up in the conversation.

I see nothing wrong with hunting or fishing if it's purpose is to put food on the table. A bit more effort involved than buying meat at the supermarket and letting others do the killing for you.

By the way, Barbara and I eat very little meat, but do consume eggs, milk, other animal products. We have a couple of friends who are proudly vegan (no animal products at all). At one holiday dinner, they brought a chocolate cake they were very proud of, made with no eggs, milk, or other animal products at all. We all sat around shoveling it in and politely going "Yum yum!!"

But it was really gag-worthy!!

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Another dimension to the "animal rights" aspect: dangerous animals.

I was born and spent my early years (up until age nine) in Pasadena, California. There are black widow spiders there: quite poisonous! Whenever anyone spotted a black widow spider in the house, it called for an all-out hunt armed with fly swatters until we found it and dispatched it!

Don Firth