This is a section of veganism that I don't really know much about. I know some people advocate for humans working to reduce the suffering of animals in the natural environment. I do understand the drive behind it because animal suffering is horrible even if it's natural, but on the other hand is it our place as humans to intervene in the environment like that? My personal view of environmentalism always hinged on making as little change as possible to local environments, to the point where I avoid foraging or picking flowers to reduce my impact.
If anyone knows any good places to read some theory on this topic, or if you have any of your own thoughts on this I'd love to hear from you.
if we really believe in well-being for all conscious creatures, there's no reason to exclude the well-being of animals just because they live in a certain ecosystem, live a certain distance away from cities, aren't domesticated, etc
that said, we're powerless to reduce suffering in 'the wild' right now, except by not fucking things up for animals. we can avoid killing them ourselves at least, by managing global warming and pollution. we can do certain kinds of population control like neutering feral cats, etc, or taking care of injured wild animals
but if we mean really stopping animal deaths in the wild, e.g. if we could do something like turn carnivores into herbivores using 5G energy beams, we can't predict the consequences down the food chain, or how many animals that might inadvertently kill. fewer changes to ecosystems are generally better. if we could ever safely stop animals from eating each other in the wild it would be good, but it's more of an idea for the distant future, if ever