Is eating hunted meat ethical?

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[Tom Fearnley]

[Shell B]

1) If we were all vegan there would be no starving people?
2) Animals killed on the farm feel pain when killed (being electrocuted then bolted in the head would hurt a lot. Sometimes the machine goes wrong and the bolt doesn't kill the animal "quickly", causing even more suffering to the animal.)
3) A meat eater diet damages the environment more so than a vegan one.

1. Is that a question, because you phrased it as a statement.
2. I said killed quickly, not tormented.
3. You'd have to have evidence of that claim.

Listen, you asked a question. I answered it. If this is just a guise to try to convert me to your way of thinking, I'm going to eat a burger in protest. I can't stand that shit. I have access to the same information you have. I came to a different, yummy, conclusion.

[Tom Fearnley]

[Nay_Sayer]

If it's not me it's another animal or natural causes.

We've just streamlined it, Also I'm a sucker for bacon burgers.

[Tom Fearnley]

Hehe yeah in terms of taste lamb is my favourite.

[Nakara]

I have no issue with hunting for food, so long as you do what you can to drop them in one clean shot, then use every bit of the animal. It's a terrible thing to waste a life.

As far as ethics go with meat eating, I believe we as a society in general eat far too much. To help fuel the meat industry countless animals are raised and killed in horrendous conditions, wallowing in their filth their entire lives and never feeling the warmth of the sun.

I have no issue in raising livestock for meat, so long as the animals are allowed to roam and herd and exhibit natural behaviors, given veterinarian care if needed, fed a natural diet/allowed to forage, sustainable practices are utilized, and overall the animals are treated with kindness and respect. If we cut down on our meat consumption farms like this could easily replace factory farms--better for us, the animals, and the environment.

I believe some meat and animal products are necessary for a healthy human diet. We have meat to thank for our big brains. I have to eat iron-rich meat as I can't absorb plant-based iron very easily. My grandma has this same problem.

And, well, meat is delicious.

[The Grand Nudger]

Farmed venison, in the us, is at least partly responsible for the spread of chronic wasting disease. The deer stumble around, drooling...aggressive, skin and bones. There's no known treatment, it's always fatal.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Farmed venison, in the us, is at least partly responsible for the spread of chronic wasting disease.  The deer stumble around, drooling...aggressive, skin and bones.  There's no known treatment, it's always fatal.

We've not seen that here yet.  But it's likely just a matter of time.  Going to be a nightmare if CWD ever makes it here - deer farming is a pretty sizeable industry.

Boru

[Succubus]

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'm trying to imagine how lions would react to having their tea shot for them.
You know save them all that running about biting, advancing behaviour.

It doesn't matter how many antelope you shoot the fucking lions with their long sharp pointy teeth will still tear open, and chomp on live ones.

I've got it! Shoot the fucking lions!