The difference is that the farmer, rancher or cowboy that kills and sells beef NEVER refers to what he is doing as 'Hunting'. The farmer, rancher or cowboy is growing a crop, he is harvesting the beef, pork, chicken or buffalo for food. Those animals are raised for a singular purpose. They are killed quickly, efficiently and as painlessly as we can do it.
Contrast this to the deer that is shot in the hip by an incompetent marksman, ambushed on it's way to an artifical food source (ie. deer feeder)and drags itself in a vain attempt to escape death, only to find that it is cornered in a field with 7 ft fences. The 'hunter' is in a truck with a high powered rifle (which he may or may not know to use) and ample ammo. This is about as far from 'sport' as you can get. Sadistic glee over the suffering of an animal is essentially all that this is. Glee over inflicting pain or killing a helpless and trapped animal is sadism (you are free to use any dictionary you wish to consult on this one).
If you want to call this process 'obtaining food, through torture, sadistic pleasure and profit' that's fine. But is sure isn't 'Hunting'.
"If you want to call this process 'obtaining food, through torture, sadistic pleasure and profit' that's fine. But is sure isn't 'Hunting'."
I didn't call it hunting. But all the criticisms you level above could be levelled easily at hunting by the extremists who pushed this bill and the go-alongers who didn't think about that concern. The similarity is far too close to allow such a ban, for it leads down the path to more extensive bans. Heck, are we going to disallow people from picking their lobster from the tank for the same reasons?
The 'hunting' in Live Shot is just a gimmick. There is a handler on scene.
This is livestock. It is called exotic livestock.