I hate PETA too I am a card carrying carnivore, yes. All of the meat that I eat though, I know its source. My husband hunts every year, and he is a dead shooter; he does not let a deer suffer. I have watched him on 3 hunts in the past year.. bam, that deer does not know what hit it. If you think that hunting is evil.. tell that to the wolves and tigers and other predators! Their ways of killing are much more inhumane than my husband shooting a deer with one shot. We cut them up and process the meat rigt here by ourselves.. I don't trust others' conditions.. after seeing a pretty large-scale deer-processing place.. yuck!
To go into discussing the types of deer that are hunted, you really need to have a knowledge of herd dynamics. Most he-man hunters that go out to hunt for antlers, the type that discards a nice meaty carcass and takes home the "horns.." those are not true woodsmen or women. At least take the carcass to a food bank or something.. Now back to what I was saying. A real hunter and woodsperson will take a limited amount of big bucks.. usually, by hubby just gets some Does, because the bucks are not large enough, and are still growing. People that will shoot at anything are just being imbeciles and not doing anything to help the herds IMO. If hunting were banned.. without having all of the natural predators that humans have killed off.. deer would be hugely overpopulated and sickly from starvation every winter.
We also get beef and pork from some friends of ours that farm. I can personally go see the animals that they raise at any time, and I am satisfied that their conditions are optimal. The beefers live their lives out in a huge pasture, with a shed if they want it. The hogs have outside access and clean quarters. They are taken to a local slaughtering plant that I have seen myself.
I try to make the smallest footprint on earth that I can. I figure this.. I never plan on having kids. So that in itself gives me some "woggle room" and that includes driving a somewhat uneconomical (though necessary 4x4) vehicle. I also get my power from infinite sources.. wind turbines!