The only place I've really had issues with animal rights people, is at college. My car has a magnet on back with the name of my taxidermy business, and last year somebody kept writing "Animal Cruelty" and more obscene things in the dust on the back window. Several I didn't notice this right away and I'd go driving home through town after school with some insult on the back window!
It frustrates me how so many people just don't understand the importance of hunting and wildlife management. They focus on the emotional aspect of of it, and tend to completely anthropomorphize animals. I've been asked on one occasion, also at school, "Why would you hunt? haven't you seen Bambi??" And my reply is yes, I've seen Bambi, but it is a Disney movie!! There is nothing remotely realistic about it. For one thing, Bambi should have been old enough to leave his mother before the hunting season, and those "hunters" were irresponsibly shooting at everything like they had machine guns! That is not how hunting is, but people just don't get that. The media and the animal rights propaganda has given people a terrible image of hunting and the best way to change this is to find ways to help people understand it better.
I've been working with a couple local outdoors programs to help get people more interested in the outdoors and teach them the value of hunting. Sometimes, when people see the damage done by hogs or the foliage eaten down by deer, they come to understand. But so many of them just don't want to change their mind.