Why are hunters so cruel to the animals?

Hunting is considered as a sport. It is fun to hunt. We are all animals. We fight to survive in a more non-barbaric way. Others are ruthless. By fun, they also mean that they collect the game, but it was fun chasing it down and killing it. I was a hunter myself. I had 1 week experience and killed my first squirrel.

I hunt to feed my family. It is much less cruel to eat a deer than a cow. A typical deer lives about 3 years, eats whatever it wants and goes where it desires. A deer lives its entire life peacefully, except (in most cases) for the last 15 to 30 seconds. In Florida a cow lives in a fenced field, eats what the farmer gives it, is rounded up 2x per year for injections, is separated from its young, and at the end of its life it is herded into a pen to be brought to a slaughter house where someone will put a bolt between its eyes.

Actually, most hunters do it as sport even if they do end up eating the animal. Nowadays if anyone wants meat they can just go buy it at the grocery store. They go out and kill their own animal because they're doing it as a sport. I do think its cruel, I don't understand how you could kill an animal and just watch it die.. I would never date someone who was a hunter.

99% of hunters hunt both for the trophy and the meat at the same time. Without hunter's contributions to conservation there would barely be any animals left. Most animals don't suffer when they get shot, and the initial shock of getting hit by a bullet masks the pain, ask any war veteran that was injured during combat.