Is eating hunted meat ethical?

[The Grand Nudger]

Indeed it does, which is a great argument for making more informed consumer choices regardless of what you're putting on your plate.

Speaking of, we produce more meat today with lower herd sizes, and thus lower potential carbon footprint than ever before, and the trend isn't slowing down. Meanwhile, in the absence of livestock production, the carbon footprint of agriculture must, by necessity, increase. We tear through soil faster than nature can replace it (and not by a little), our only recourse being to amend the land. This, also, increases the amount of co2 in the atmospehere. Additionally, corn and cropland are incapable of locking as much co2 as pasture....and more than 2/3rds of our agricultural land is marginal, suitable for nothing else. The benefits of improved grazing don't just stop there, or with more food, it's a way to actively reverse desertification.

(and yes, most of the marquee studies are funded by interested lobbies, but in this case you have the factory farm lobby in a knife fight with the fossil fuel lobby - they deserve each other, lol. I think we can dispense with any talk of climate change denial, since neither of us are interested in that - but I can show you how and why each side in this knife fight cooks their books to implicate the other...and how both sides cook their books to sweep the fullest extent of consumer choices under the rug.)

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I couldn;t find any table that explained how the values were derived...but this sentence from the abstract explained why.

A focus on a specific population, even though participants belong to four geographically distant areas in Italy, and the fact that seasonality, farming and cattle rearing typology, and food production methods were not taken into account for the environmental impact evaluation should be considered the main weaknesses of this study.

A study of the environmental impact of diets..that doesn't take into account the specific environmental impact of production methodologies....? That's, impressive. Can't really comment any further on that account. Except to say that you should link a study that actually can support your pov, if that's what you intend to do, regardless of the level of confidence you place in those studies for whatever reason. I would even suggest that you don't need -any- specific scientific study to understand why the climate change angle for veganism is a non starter. The flaw in the argument isn't in the specifics, it's properly basic.