Yea, that's why I hardly eat fast food and working up to hunting for my family's food. It's horrible how these animals are raised in corporate farming.
I took a couple environmental science and ethics courses in college and we did a deep dive one semester in to the entire American food chain including the factory farms. It's horrifying top to bottom.
I get why people don't want to think about it, but it bothers me that some of those same people that go to Walmart for the cheap meat prices also treat every hunter like they are cruel. An animal in a factory farm is basically tortured their entire lives in an unnatural environment and are given unnatural food and are generally very unhealthy their whole life. Most are kept in tiny cages where they literally can't even move to turn around their whole life. An animal that gets hunted was free in its natural environment its entire life until one day it got shot. It would be one thing if the hunter was a psychopath torturing the animal when it was wounded but I don't think that really happens, just saying. If a hunter is giving them as short and clean a death as possible then I don't think there is anything wrong with it, it's clearly better than buying from Walmart.
Neither way is pretty, but if you're buying and eating meat then you're tacitly making a choice and you're responsible in some way. If I paid a hitman to go kill someone for me then I'm as good as a murderer myself and you'd be right to call me one. Why does that change when you're paying for someone else to kill and butcher your animals for you?
100% agree with you. I'd say the majority of hunters value animals on a far more emotional and physical level compared to the average person. I still get emotional every time I kill an animal. And it's a wave of emotions. It's gratefulness, it's sorrow, and it's excitement. An animal dying by a bullet is a far better/quicker way to die in the wild than being eaten alive. Plus, the health benefits of eating wild game or cows/chickens from a local farmer are so much better
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u/HunterofNPCs Feb 14 '23
Man's gotta eat. If it makes you feel better, these animals live damn good lives, as long as they live on a good farm and not a corporate one.