Well by that vien hunting is far more cruel, the animal is shot at , stabbed, or hit with a weapon from a distance or up close and as in the case with deer hunting most likely running in terror for a couple miles while they bleed out if the hunter made even the slightest mistake.

The most humane thing would be not to kill them at all.

It doesnt matter to me one way or the other if our dominance comes from the bible or its self justification through evolution, it doesnt relieve us of the responsibility inherient in assuming said dominion and doing it compasionately and wisely.

And even believers in the bible should know, that the bible itself tells them to be goods stewards of the earth, which means being as humanely christian as poosible which in effect means not being cruel soo...

... like in other threads, were religion and such meet, it isnt the religion thats being naughty...its the people themselves twisting what their dogma entails.

Additonally I believe, the Governemnt, would be making a mistake by letting Peta influence it to make some kind of hard stance against the cultural practices of any single cross section of society that isnt doing anything any worse that other cross sections, or failing that they should start with restrictions against those doing the "worse: things, like not going after ritual sluaghter while industrialized animal proccessing is left alone or hunting is allowed.