I'm NOT against hunting, provided the hunter is in need of the hunted for food, intends to give it to the needy for similar reason, or is taking some part in the extermination of some rabid or otherwise dangerous beastie. But no matter what the reason for hunting, to make any kind of ceremony around doing a fellow creature to death is, frankly, juvenile and debasing. Fox hunting --as practised by red-coated posers in the good old UK--bad enough, but the most demeaning of all is so-called "trophy hunting". The cretins who favour this as a "sport' deserve to have their own heads mounted in a set of good old-fashioned stocks and liberally pelted with globs of the shit of whatever inoffensive creature they have slaughtered.