"He [Cannon] argued that those who hunt for the 'mere pleasure of killing' would develop a 'feeling of indifference' to suffering. People who were indifferent to the pain of animals, concluded Cannon, would 'more likely . . . use their weapons against their fellow-creatures' when provoked to anger. He stated that God had given animals to man for man's sustenance, but animals were 'not to be wasted, not to be killed for sport,' and 'not to be exterminated from the face of the earth.' Man would be held accountable to God for his treatment of animals, wrote Elder Cannon."