As a family farmer, you are just getting by now. You are a lacto-vegetarian who eats only plants and dairy products, no beef, fish, poultry, pork, eggs etc. You try not to use products that have been tested on animals or are derived from the death of animals, such as leather. You oppose the killing of animals unnecessarily and feel that animals should be killed only as an absolute, last resort. You also feel that humans have a special responsibility regarding the taking of animals.
Any animal killed by a human has the right to die as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Wild carnivores have no choice but we humans do. Wherever possible, you favor reestablishing the natural balance by reintroducing the original predators to an area. You are a private landowner adjacent to the public land upon which the deer spend much of their time. You like deer, but there is a limit after all. You represent the Bureau of Forestry which manages hundreds of thousands of acres of state forests and gives advice to those who manage the hundreds of thousands of acres of private forests.