It never surprises me in the slightest how quickly anger at killing one type of wildlife turns to the necessity of killing another... and, oh yes, how good the other tastes.
Odd isn't it. I have never had a problem with people hunting to feed themselves and their families. Round here shooting is a major industry and it makes for better looking countryside as the woods and hedges provide cover but I remain ambivalent about it. It is the scale of it that seems wrong as it not for food but for sport.
I have taken part in shoots in France as an unarmed helper but there it was different. The hunt was owned and operated communally by the people of the area rather than as a commercial enterprise. The number of each species of deer killed (both male and female) was controlled by an annual quota to conserve stocks and everything that was shot was eaten. Any surplus meat was shared with the people pf the commune. There was no predator control other than for foxes, which were sometimes shot if they became a nuisance, but not many as it meant sitting up all night and you couldn't eat them. The whole thing was rigorously controlled by the government and the fines for an unauthorised kill were huge.
They had tried introducing pheasants in the past but the foxes eat them all, so it was just deer and wild boar.