Short answer: Yes.
Long Answer:
Meat comes from dead animals. You can either outsource the killing, which in a meat farm is often very inhumane (a good number of cows are skinned alive and they survive a good 7 minutes into subsequent dismemberment), or you cna do it yourself. I get no thrill out of killing an animal. The first time I did it I thought I was going to vomit, to be honest, and that was just some poultry (I didn't expect the bird to LITERALLY run around spraying blood everywhere from it's neck for 30 seconds - I've learned much since then).
But as a hunter, you learn that there's a balance to everything, and you are part of the balance. You learn to respect the animals, even as you kill them to eat them, and in some mysitical sense, you realize that they give up their spirit to nourish yours. Yeah, it sound hokey, but that's what I think.

The next part of hunting is the sense of self-reliance. Well, sort of, if you count self-reliance as using a factory made gun or bow as your killing tool. I guess to be REALLY self-reliant, you'd need to learn to hunt with a wooden spear or rocks or something.
But I digress.
The point is that you are taking charge, know you can provide for yourself, that you won't starve, that you can be responsible for your life in a way that no grocery store shopper ever can understand.