[Psychocath]

Overpopulation is one of the reasons hunters may go out to kill animals, I didn't say it was the be-all and end-all (I typed 'in some cases' for a reason). Whether it be pest control, population control or for consumption; People will hunt.

Perhaps it's justified by the fact that humans have been hunting animals since we first walked the earth? Without hunting, how would we honestly survive as a species, really? Vegetation alone cannot sustain mankind, we are omnivorous.

Plants could be considered 'living' too, but foraging for and eating them doesn't seem to warrant justification does it? There isn't public outcry whenever a plant is uprooted and chopped up for salad, or fields cleared of weeds. It's the same with animals. We eat them if they're edible, we kill them when their numbers become a problem. (And at this point you'll probably think 'OMG HOW COULD SHE COMPARE PLANTS TO PRETTY PRETTY ANIMALS!?' - I'm aware that they're nothing like one another. The animals taste better. But the methods are pretty much the same shit, only carried out with weaponry rather than gardening tools.)
Just that some idiots prefer to kill them for fun rather than practical reasons, and they waste the carcass. Like the retard who shot a baboon for the sake of it.