So you don’t like to hurt animals, and you don’t hunt. Just tell them it is because you are a bad shot and usually wound them and have to hunt them down putting shot after shot into a non-kill area until they bleed to death.
You could stop being a hypocrite. Just a thought.
I do not try to hide it,whenever someone asks me “do you eat meat?” I say yes
It would be the last punch you take.
If you want to believe that, feel free 
Seriously, if you want to make enemies so badly, just go right on ahead with the holier than thou idiot act. Otherwise a simple “I don’t enjoy hunting” works just fine.
In my experience talking to people around here who hunt, most of them are usually pretty civil to us non-hunters if you don’t try to antagonize or provoke them. Once you say “I don’t hunt”, they usually change the topic of conversation to something else.
Which is actually the stance I take,but it isn’t to effective.
Wow.Thanks!
I could pile on but I’ll give your request a shot anyway.
MTS: I don’t hurt animals
Hunter: You eat meat, don’t you?
1 - MTS: Yes, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t feel the bite.
2 - MTS: Yes, I drive a car too, but I got somebody else to build it.
3 - MTS: Yes, but only depressed animals who have lost the will to live.
4 - MTS: Yes, but I pretend its salad.
What are you trying to convey? Cause right now I’m lost. You don’t hunt, that’s clear. Do you think people who hunt are doing something bad? Do you think that hunting is somehow worse than eating chicken that has been raised for slaughter? Do you think eating meat is bad and you’d like to stop but have been unable? Do you think hunters are bloodthirsty animals and you think humans should be above that sort of thing?
I’m lost, you aren’t making your point very clearly. Try explaining what you want to say and then worry about making it snappy or pithy.
I’m seriously confused as well. Perhaps if you could explain why you say you “don’t hurt animals” in response to being asked if you hunt, then your request for a rejoinder would be clearer.
I’m not trying to be judgmental, I honestly have no clue what you’re driving at in the conversation. Are you trying to criticize hunters? Are you trying to explain that you’re a pacifist? Are you embarrassed by having to explain an apparent contradiction in your personal philosophy?
Why snappy? Are you trying to change the subject quickly without stepping on toes or looking to get in a quick jab at their lifestyle choices?
I’m the only non-hunter in my family. Big omnivores at my house, just not into hunting or fishing. Granted, in my case I’m not so much worried about the individual animals since I think living in the wild until a random bullet catches ya has to be better than the way many farmed animals are treated, but either way, I prefer my meat to arrive in neat little white-wrapped packaging.
I usually joke about it with hunters trying to press the “but you eat meat” aspect with something like “And believe me, I am fervently grateful someone else prepares it for me. I like history, and realize I wouldn’t last a day feeding myself without a nearby supermarket.”
I’m not better because I don’t kill my own food, they’re not morally or ethically better or worse because they do, it’s all just a matter of preference. A choice I’m exceedingly happy to be able to make, mind you.
Do you truly see it differently? That a choice to not hunt and fish removes you from the animals dying for your plate equation and that it’s somehow the better choice?
“I am not a fan of hunting or fishing as a sport.”
“I’m too lazy to put my beliefs into practice and become vegetarian or vegan, but too squeamish to actually kill an animal myself.”
That’s making the assumption that these hunters do hunt for sport and not meat, though. (I’m not sure that’s been clarified by the OP.) My husband goes deer hunting (once a year) most years and does it for the meat.
(I do happen to be a vegetarian, partially for ethical reasons. I also don’t do snappy answers to stuff like this, so I can’t help you there. My own personal belief is that one ought to be willing to kill or at least butcher an animal if they’re going to eat it; I’ve done much of the latter job without even eating the animal I’m working on.)
Closed at the OP’s request.