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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Hague" data-source="post: 1255864" data-attributes="member: 51438">As a species we have always taken animals from the wild to eat indeed only a few thousand years ago it was the only way mankind would have survived. In some countries man still actively hunts for food.Vegetarians aside anyone who eats meat is hardly in a position to start lecturing anyone on what to eat. I doubt restaurants here are going to start putting Puffin on the menu. There are lots of arguments for and against hunting strictly for food but to be fair, and I'm no hunter, it pays to ensure that there's a steady supply of food rather than hunt it to extinction. I'm dead against the Maltese hunters and their like around the world but one or two people eating Puffin or Gannet are not a major concern really.I do also have a problem with rich upper and middle class twats shooting pheasants that are too fat to fly.</blockquote>