[agrace]

OK, so you believe it's NOT acceptable for someone who has access to a supermarket to kill for consumption.

Now I will draw that parallel I hadn't drawn before.

On one hand we have someone who buys a license, goes out into the woods, kills a deer, has it skinned for gloves and a coat, and has it butchered to fill his family's freezer with venison.

On the other hand we have someone who buys a license, sets up shop as a butcher, kills a cow, has it skinned for various leather products, and butchers it to put beef into the freezers of various families.

What on earth is the difference?

[Bluntpoint]

"What on earth is the difference?"

The butcher is just not that rich of a target for that person wishing for an empty exercise in moral vanity.

[warchild9]

A butcher kills dispassionately. A hunter kills for fun, regardless of what they say. If it wasn't fun, they wouldn't go through the expense and bother. It was fun for me, when I hunted, and I would never be able to have been a butcher, because to kill without feeling struck me, even then, as coarse.