Is eating hunted meat ethical?

[Tom Fearnley]

THIS is an active topic? REALLY? You wouldn't think.

Why "not really"?

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I don't eat animals because they feel pain EDIT: but hunted animals would feel a lot less pain than if kept in the wild to suffer and die naturally.. I don't think they have the "Right To Live" like humans do. We can decide for them if hunted meat perhaps?

Then again, the argument could be made that hunting is less  ethical, because it's disrupting the natural order.  Suppose Joe shoots a deer.  That deer may have shat out seeds that would have grown into plants which could have provided food, shelter and breeding/nesting areas for dozens of species.  Without those plants, hundreds of individual organisms may experience pain and suffering which would otherwise have been avoided.

Have a steak and calm down.

Boru

Nah because the organisms that eat shit (like you're basically making me do by answering you) will just suffer anyway, with or without the deer.

I'm a lamb man myself. Although not anymore

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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?

You gave us your opinion when you said you were trying to be a vegan. No where to go after that.

Well I'm trying to be an ethical person: Does that mean I have to eat vegan?