Rather than barking at a much maligned way of life, the left would do better to court natural allies. The lifestyle they attack is as valid as any other, the culture they criticize is as rich as any other, and their apparent inability to maintain an open mind as they explore the implications of their position does dramatic and painful disservice to a group of people who are within earshot of their larger, more important message. Let us set hunting to the side for a moment, and concentrate on the ethics of meat consumption. The reason most commonly cited by vegetarians and vegans, however, is the impact that unsustainable meat consumption places on the environment. Animals mass produced for meat live in horrid environments where pestilence is a given.
Sick animals make for sick meat, sick meat makes for unhealthy consumers.
Therefore, this author refuses to even consider eating any meat mass produced due to the serious environmental repercussions associated with the product. Hunting, however, gives a sustainable alternative to eating mass produced meat - eat what you kill and kill what you eat. I am therefore a vegetarian as far as mass produced meat goes, but an omnivore when you include wild game under the umbrella of eating meat. If more people actually followed this philosophy of meat consumption as I do, we might not have the environmental problems that we have today. Perhaps leftists would profit from thinking rationally about solutions to a situation instead of simply decrying any paradigm that falls outside the scope of their frighteningly parochial morals.