RE: Is eating hunted meat ethical?
November 23, 2019 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2019 at 6:54 pm by Tom Fearnley.)
(November 23, 2019 at 6:33 pm)Alex K Wrote:(November 23, 2019 at 6:11 pm)Tom Fearnley Wrote: I'm trying to be a vegan as I think it's ethical. However animals in the wild, like Richard Dawkins says, suffer horrible deaths whilst in the wild. Hunting them and shooting them killing them quickly then consuming their meat is still therefore ethical maybe? The animal will feel less pain in its lifetime if shot to death than if it died naturally in the wild.
Correct?
That's not how ethics ever work though. All round mercy killings to fight against suffering, that's a Hollywood supervillain's notion of morality.
Mercy killing would cause the animal less suffering.
(November 23, 2019 at 6:35 pm)Shell B Wrote: I think any animal that is killed quickly and never treated inhumanely is fair "game."
1) If we were all vegan there would be no starving people?
2) Animals killed on the farm feel pain when killed (being electrocuted then bolted in the head would hurt a lot. Sometimes the machine goes wrong and the bolt doesn't kill the animal "quickly", causing even more suffering to the animal.)
3) A meat eater diet damages the environment more so than a vegan one.
