“... if you don’t eat it, don’t kill it.”
I’ve known several big game hunters, personally. After a kill, the animal is slaughtered and its meat provided to a nearby village, that lives off of it for weeks. Trophy hunters are good for the local economy, as well as directly good for the locals.
The cliches about trophy hunting is pretty much inaccurate in most cases that I’m aware of.
“... if you don’t eat it, don’t kill it.”
You made me think. We are very sanitized in our contact with life and death. There are some hunters who are moved with bloodlust I suppose but many hunters respect life much more from the hunt.
There at one time was value in the Jewish tradition of kosher, draining your food of the life blood. Now it is a label on a package of hot dogs. At the packing plant the animal is stunned mechanically, and a mechanical knife slits the throat while the eyes roll in the live animal as the blood drains. You can only watch this a few times, that is why it is mechanized, not done as originally done in the Bible.
Most hunters have an extreme understanding and respect for life. It is not just about food.