A plant based future won't have disabled people in it. It won't have Me in it. I'm anemic and don't digest food right, I require meat with high iron content and iron pills and I require high vitamin food that plant doesn't always have. Like cats, require thiamine only in meat.
It's certainly morally better than factory farming, for several reasons, most of which are obvious to the audience here. But many don't consider:
Firstly, in many places, hunting is a replacement for extinct natural predators, and fills a massive gap in the food chain. Those populations need to be restored, but that will never happen if certain prey species aren't managed, because for instance deer can overgraze, wipe out certain herbivores, destroy cover for rodents, cause swings and crashes in raptor populations, and literally create soil erosion and damage the geography of areas.
Secondly, when you assume it's a wild animal being hunted, remember what a wild animal is. And remember that animal welfare is about what happens to animals, not specifically about what people do.
CW: death
If you are a wild animal, you will die in one of three primary ways:
getting shot in the heart, wondering what the fuck that noise was, and falling over
traumatic injury leading to constant unremitting pain, disability and slow, excruciatingly painful starvation
having wild dogs plunge their head into your ass to pull out your intestines while you watch for 2 or 3 hours
For anyone like,
It's certainly morally better than factory farming, for several reasons, most of which are obvious to the audience here. But many don't consider:
Firstly, in many places, hunting is a replacement for extinct natural predators, and fills a massive gap in the food chain. Those populations need to be restored, but that will never happen if certain prey species aren't managed, because for instance deer can overgraze, wipe out certain herbivores, destroy cover for rodents, cause swings and crashes in raptor populations, and literally create soil erosion and damage the geography of areas.
Secondly, when you assume it's a wild animal being hunted, remember what a wild animal is. And remember that animal welfare is about what happens to animals, not specifically about what people do.
CW: death
If you are a wild animal, you will die in one of three primary ways: