1. It's not about ego, its culture unlike your examples.
2. Read a wildlife management report, hunting and hunters are pro-conservation and do more for the environment and populations then PETA and the likes of those groups.

Thank you for proving my point that you wouldn't listen.

So you would rather populations expand & starve themselves because of resource competition? Hunting has been around since man first learned to walk. It's a way of life, a culture, heritage, but mainstream media has clouded it to just be a murder spree. Not to mention game meat is healthier for you.