If you choose not to kill anything, including your chickens, then that's fine, Shambles. But other people's choice to kill things (even if it's for a lousy reason, like "just because they can") is not imposing on you in any way whatsoever, except in the obvious way that if they kill too many then they'll eventually deprive the whole world of them.

Graham - I have watched with some ammusment as the class in our country that have been traditionally associated with hunting and shooting and who have always felt they have a God-given right to judge interfere, prevent and comment on every aspect of what others choose do for their pleasure - have nearly exploded with indignation at the thought of the great-unwashed having the audacity to judge, interfere, prevent and comment on their pleasures..... How dare they?

I am reminded of Dad's Army's Corporal Jones phrase: - 'They don't like it up-em sah! Indeed they don't.