Is eating hunted meat ethical?

[Tom Fearnley]

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?

Not really. Why must you raise topics that are currently in question on active threads?

Is it an odd fetish or something?

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

Why "not really"?

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It's probably not ethical if we think of animals having rights and such. But ultimately, I eat meat because I love meat and feel that I need to eat meat every now and then in order to survive. Whether it's hunted meat or otherwise, it's basically the same from my POV. I don't pretend there's anything ethical much about this.

And letting it die naturally [in the wild] isn't necessarily less ethical than shooting it. Replace [non-human] animal with human and you'll see what I mean.

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?