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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
Well I am against hunting but I eat meat. In this case killing is not killing IMO. As I said, there is a difference between killing for the sake of recreation and killing for food. Hunting, in the sense that you kill an animal because that's you way of life and use it for survival, like some African groups etc, is different to some executive going out with his rifle to bag a trophy and feel like a big man, and different to people killing elephants etc for their ivory and leaving the carcuses behind because they're not useful (i.e. can't give them any money) to them. Farming animals for the purpose of providing food is different again, though I do think that many abetoirs could kill the livestock more humanely.
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I must say, I beg leave to differ. The way animals are farmed in the developed world, is, as I said before, totally inhumane and disgusting. I don't like hunting, but in many cases, bad as it is, I would prefer it to the intensive farming that produces the food people routinely buy in their supermarkets. An animal that is hunted at least has the chance to live a large part of its life in the open, in freedom. Many animals that are intensively farmed never get such an opportunity. Do you know anything about the poultry industry? The sheep farming industry? The dairy industry? The pig farming industry? It's not pretty, I can assure you.
The intensive way that we farm animals is very bad for the environment. In addition, it makes no economic sense whatsoever when it comes to feeding the world.
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