I am a vegetarian and love all creatures and would not want to but from what I know a person will do anything if they are hungry enough and starving to death

OK, just on a side, rather comical note than my other comment. I do love my veggies, and can cook them rather well in many styles. But, on the grill, Yeah, Veggies are at best a side dish. BBQ pork, beef, fish, deer, etc. yeah you just can't get that from veggies.
Well, that and DAMN a whole hog on the spit glazed all day is just ugh damn good.lol

Only animals I kill are flies and aggressive hornets...I am a passive(occasional) meat-eater...if given the choice of kill or otherwise feed myself, I would gather nuts and berries...(but, like you, these are my choices...I make no judgment of others)...

How many of you can say that you don't eat a hamburger, or have bacon or sausage with breakfast

I could if I had to. I could never raise an animal for food, but I could kill wild game again if I had to. I watch some shows about Alaskans who choose to live the wilderness lifestyle and one of the guys explained something in a way I had never considered. There are hardly any wild animals who die of old age. Some die because they're prey, some die from disease, some die from starvation, some die from fire, some die from flooding, etc., but I would guess that very few die from being old. Having to intentionally kill an animal would definitely bother me.

haven't fished since i was early teens b/c i can't stand the thought of taking a living being off a fish hook, never mind cleaning & then cooking it.
can't even open a package of meat anymore. although i do eat some which my wife cooks.

Yes, fresh meat tastes much better than stored meat to me (except in the case of aged beef). So I will still harvest deer, hog, turkey, and rabbit on rare occasions. I am an avid fisherman of all species. I regularly harvest shrimp, crab, clams, oysters, scallops, and conch from Florida's waters. I also enjoy the taste of fresh alligator tail when I can get it.

I have, but no longer. I'm vegan now.

I eat meat but at this point in my life if I had to kill it I'd pass. No problem with fish though.

I would definitely eat less meat, but I’ve no big moral objection to killing for food. At least I would know that there was at least an attempt to kill the animal humanely.

People who eat animal cadaver are are rarely hunters, farmers, butchers, meat packers, fish gutters, shrimpers, inspectors or truck drivers taking terrified sentient animals to their deaths. My earliest memories hunting and fishing with my father includes watching the light of life go out in the eyes of dying rabbits, pheasants and quail I ran to capture their gunshot bodies bleeding in my hands where hunting dogs did not see to retrieve. That same year xmas of 1956, "Santa" gave my brother and I matching cowboy boots and cap guns looking like Colt 45 six shot revolvers but the trigger and hammer spun taped gunpowder to explode inch after inch when "shot"....the sound was exciting and I wondered how Santa got down our 6 inch chimney....none the less I refused to eat fried chicken legs, ground up cow meat called pigham "burgers" preferring hot dogs and baloney I had no clue where that food CAME FROM....SLICING a giant Turkey out of the oven, I wondered where the feathers went.... "Were some inside my pillow ?" I have been paid to perform all 8 jobs on my lines 2&3 above.....if all carnivore people were required to buy a hunting/fishing license and work those 8 jobs one day per year TO BUY THEIR "food" ....the wasteful food industry would have fewer customers and wildlife habitats would be restored and expanded closer to Native America of 1492

I used to hunt elk and deer every year, their natural predators are pretty much gone. I love animals, but they have to be culled.

Yes

Probably not. But I'd miss it, and I might learn to do it.

Just look at as you are giving the animal mercy from beeing killed in some other horrific manner.

I used to hunt elk and deer every year, their natural predators are pretty much gone. I love animals, but they have to be culled.