Is eating hunted meat ethical?

[Aegon]

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?

I'm not reading 15 pages of this, but I think vegan ethics extend beyond how animals feel.

By purchasing and consuming meat, we are perpetuating the whole system. Our meat consumption is a huge and well-documented culprit of climate change. If you eat vegan, vegetarian, or even less meat overall, you're doing something ethical in reducing your carbon footprint. If that's a main concern for someone, then actually eating only hunted meat is the most ethical way you could do it, since it's the farming methods that contribute to climate change, which hurt all of us.

If your concern is animal welfare, then yeah, I would say it would be most logically consistent to forgo animal products completely, hunted or not. We live in 2019, with advanced technology and a long, long list of non-meat alternatives. The amount of vegetarian and vegan restaurants is at an all-time high. We can live a happy and healthy lifestyle without eating any animal products. But what happens to an animal outside any direct or indirect interaction I have with it is of no consequence. All that matters is your choice and your action.

I'm vegetarian, and I'll be vegan eventually but I'm in no hurry.