..I’m genuinely interested and curious where your coming from with this if in fact you’re a meat eater..
Well, i removed that reply allready about an hours ago, because on second thought i was not really interested to get involved in a discussion regarding guns, hunting, hunting ethics, etc…
I eat meat, yes….no vegetarian….no vegan…and no, never spoke with a hunter in my life….
I am not against hunting either, if hunting is actually needed to keep wildlife in balance in certain areas…
What i have 0 understanding for is the “pride” that someone takes for shooting an animal from 40-50 meter with a gun….as if thats some sort of major accomplishment….like, an animal stands there…harms nothing or no one…you aim……bam…dead….jeej…..food on the table….
I mean, to run after a deer without a gun and try to catch them, would be much more difficult, no..?
And yes, unless someone lives in the wilderness and has to survive, in my view there has to be some sort of “i like killing”-factor too…
I mean, the thread-title is not saying..: “..oh my god i had to kill a deer, because out of principal i only eat meat that lived a natural life and that i kill myself..”
There is a lot wrong with the current mass-meat-industry, i would completely agree on that….which, in a way, makes everyone who contributes to that hypocrite…
My ‘resistance’ of the whole thread is in the way how the first post (and many replies) is written…which could be my interpretation…but…also how the story builds up…..i read a lot of “pride” and “excitement” there…
And, “pride” or “excitement” or “accomplishment” in regards to killing animals…i just have nothing with that…
Like, 0, nada, nothing at all…..that is…..
. As an ethical hunter poachers piss me off to no end ! 10 years ago in northern Maine my hunting group found a group of drunken idiots jacking moose . It was a wild and dangerous scene , and a long story , but in the end they were all caught and did time . A lot of it ! 2 on parole and one just got out 2 days prior after doing 10 years . All three were serious felons with long criminal histories involving firearms and violent crimes and meth !
is a species that it’s population size always linked to human activities . Really because mammalian wildlife numbers are lower than domesticated mammals on earth the domesticated has replaced the biomass of wildlife so oddly part of carbon cycle as wild ones were. We lost megafauna thousands of years ago and just never stopped mucking with things and domesticating so wild species lost . There has been winners and losers. I’m not sure eliminating domesticated mammals is a good idea unless replace an equal biomass of wildlife. The carbon sequestered by plants needs to go up food chain to life other than just humans-so i diverse functional ecosystem. Like just look how the wolf impacts an ecosystem in the article earlier in thread. Seems we keep making an artificial system purely focused on us and rest of life be damned. Really banning growing rice globally would do more to address climate concerns than limiting domesticated birds and mammals for consumption but that would be insane and cruel since feeds large part of planet.
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