This may well upset some folks, but if so sorry in advance. I don’t have too much of a problem with hunting “for the pot”. You want some meat, you go and shoot a rabbit, bird, deer or whatever. In many cultures this is a way of life and not just a way of survival.
What I have a big problem with is hunting for sport or commercial exploitation. The dodo was hunted to extinction for sport and the passenger pigeon for commercial exploitation, the bison almost went the same way. Shooting tiny birds like starling and bunting isn’t “shooting for the pot”, it’s “sport” shooting in the same way that buying a licence to shoot an elephant in Africa ( yes you still can!) is. I find it something of a contradiction that one of the great “sport shooters” of all time is or at least was, patron of the WWF! WW
