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It's one thing to hunt for food, another just for "sport."
by wavefunction 12y ago
It's one thing to hunt for food, another just for "sport."
- gknoy 12y agoIn what way do they differ? If I want to eat meat (I do, it's delicious), what is the ethical difference between killing it myself (gun, bow, spear, knife) and paying someone else to do the killing in a slaughterhouse? I feel like there is no difference, though I'm not sure how I can argue for it. If I were not killing the animal in order to eat the meat, how is paying someone for the opportunity to kill their elk/cow/bird/fish ethically distinct from being an employee at a slaughterhouse, or a fisherman? If the farmer is going to harvest the meat for eating, does it matter who kills it? It seems to me that there isn't much difference, and that they are ethically similar.
- 15155 12y agoI guarantee that commercial sport hunting of farm-raised game animals in the US almost always results in near-complete processing for food, hides, etc. In cases of elk, deer, bison, pheasant: the entire animal is used. There's just no scenario where someone raising these animals is going to let them go to waste. Meat is expensive, hides are expensive. At the very least, you'll feed the remains of the animal to your dogs or other carnivores.
- lkbm 12y agoIf I needed the food, sure, but I don't. I actually save money and improve my health by not eating meat and instead eating vegetables. We choose meat, in the US, for the pleasure of eating it.