What gives me the right?

“What gives you the right to kill a deer”? This was the challenge recently posed to me by a non-hunting friend. She wanted me to explain what gives me, or anyone else, the right to take a life while hunting. Far from being an exhaustive essay on animal rights and the morality of taking an animal’s life, I thought I would try and answer that question from 3 different positions and in a logical and succinct manner.


So what does give me the right to kill an animal and eat it?

Birthright...

“You can transcend. You can get to a place where you’re free,” he says. “Just to be what you were meant to be.”

Makes one re-evaluate opportunity and personal experience...



BIRTHRIGHT from Sean Mullens on Vimeo.

Neat summary of the hunting imperative: