"If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would."

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“Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.”

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“I don’t love animals or think they are cute.”

“The whole ‘rights’ thing is fraught with so much. I’m not sure I believe in any natural right.”

“If society says that it doesn’t want the recreational killing of wildlife then we should do away with it, just the way we’ve done away with cockfighting and dogfighting.”

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