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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 1435159" data-attributes="member: 36432">Actually I kind of get where he's going with that.  If you buy meat from a shop you are still participating in the death of an animal (so if you are not a vegetarian, you have no argument against shooting for food.  At all.  Get used to it.)  Shooters (assuming they either eat it themselves or sell it for meat) do that in an open, honest way.However: we all have serious issues with dishonest aspects of the shooting thing: and for the Shooting Times to refuse to run the RSPB advert is to (a) stick their heads in the sand and (b) refuse to participate responsibly in a society in which individuals and organisations are encouraged to do so, with neighbourhood watches, PCSOs, etc.  Not a great move by them and no decent justification for what is essentially an indefensible stand.John</blockquote>