RE: Is eating hunted meat ethical?
December 2, 2019 at 10:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2019 at 10:20 am by ThinkingIsThinking.)
(December 1, 2019 at 6:14 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(December 1, 2019 at 9:29 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote: Animals suffer at least as much in slaughterhouses as they do from hunting.
I don't agree. I have been in slaughterhouses and have watched cattle, poultry and pigs as they are slaughtered. They were stunned with a captive bolt to the brain (cattle) and an electric shock (pigs and poultry). Their loss of consciousness is instantaneous and complete, and if you watch it you understand that their lights are completely out. When animals are hunted, they're shot with a rifle, shotgun or arrow from a certain distance away, and the hunter aims for the heart. The hunter has to track them for some distance before they fall, if they do fall. Often they are lost and the hunter never finds them.
If I had to choose my own demise, I'd pick the commercial slaughter plant.
(1) Not all slaughterhouses kill animals that way.
(2) Quick pain doesn't equal less pain. Acute pain doesn't have to be chronic. If you get struck in the head by lightning or shot in the head by a gun and die 'instantly' it still hurts a great deal for a split second.
