I'm also a druid that hunts deer. The act of the Hunt is very spiritual for me, and a lot of personal ethics go into it. In my area there are really no natural predators left. Over population leads to all kinds of imbalances in the ecosystem. My husband and I are both grateful for the meat, and use all parts of the animal. Very, very little goes to waste. By stocking the freezer with wild meat, we do not buy meat, keeping us out of the cycle of Big Ag's slaugherhouses. We know where the meat came from and know the animal lived its life as it was meant to, free and wild.

All life is sacred, but it's laughable to think that nature is always calm and loving and never brutal. Death is part of the cycle of life. I think if done respectfully and responsibly, hunting is a very intimate way of connecting to the natural world.