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Dan Miller suggests the hunting season is a "killing spree of God's beautiful, innocent creatures" and wonders why hunters can't be satisfied with store-bought meat ("Killing for sport," Forum, Nov. 1). I'm not sure how he thinks meat ends up neatly packaged on his store shelf if it's not killed by someone, somewhere.
Perhaps we can't consider many of the animals in concentrated animal feeding operations that provide store-bought meat as God's creatures, since most are pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and spend their entire lives in filth.
I'm not a hunter, but I have no problem with those who are, as long as they are safe, humane and don't waste any of the animals they kill. It's been suggested that one way to combat America's obesity epidemic is for all of us to be closer to our food production. Hunting, then, is more in line with the Doctrine and Covenants passage condemning shedding blood and wasting flesh, which Miller cited, than the Frankenstein meat he prefers.
Hunter Wolfe
Salt Lake City