Should you choose to run for office I would decide my vote based on your economic and social policies, not on your race, religion, or attitude regarding hunting. In fact hunting is losing its participation numbers, I think primarily because people are losing their vital connection to nature as farms are left behind for the big city, and as agriculture becomes a corporate enterprise. My grandparents survived the Depression and Dust Bowl partly by hunting for meat. My father rode a horse or skied to school and was sent out to hunt rabbits by his father. My mother's mother homesteaded and was a crack shot. They were little different in that regard from their neighbors. That world, for better or worse, is gone.

I eat a largely vegetable diet supplemented with 4 to 6 ounces of meat most days, from hunting and fishing. Except for chicken, I buy very little meat. My home is surrounded by wild animals. I respect them more than do city folks who squash skunks and squirrels with nary a thought.