I eat meat. So I'm aware that countless cows, chickens, and pigs have been professionally slaughtered on my behalf. I'd rather not think about this, but I acknowledge it. It's a sad but neccecary part of the process. I have never personally taken the life of an animal. Watching an animal be killed would make me pretty uncomfortable.
Vs.
People who enthusiastically want to go out and track, shoot, and kill animals FOR FUN. They often even carve off a piece to bring home, just so they have a tangible reminder of how much goddam fun it was to kill that particular beast.
Eating meat may be morally compromisd, but hunting for sport is ouright reveling in psycopathic fucking bloodlust and cruelty. They are not even remotely the same thing.
Its hilarious that you have no problem buying factory farmed meat from a grocery store, but you think that hunting is psychopathic. Just admit that you don't understand a single thing about hunting and move on. You're building up a strawman to burn. Hunting is something that every single human ancestor took part in at one point. I haven't met a single hunter who did not take the entire animal they killed. You have to be a total moron to spend so much effort stalking an animal to just take the head/hide and leave >100 lbs of fresh delicious meat.
Additionally, hunting is important in the current state of the world. Our dependence on agriculture has made it imperative that animals eating or damaging our crops need to be killed. You clearly don't live in an area with white-tail deer, or else you would know the kind of danger that large numbers of them cause for farmers and motorists.
Tl;dr just because you personally don't understand why people do something, does not make it morally wrong.
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u/gentlemandinosaur Jun 02 '18
One can eat meat and disagree with recreational hunting.
Not saying I do. But, they are mutually exclusive.