• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    hunting for food

    Go to Wendy’s

    animal population control

    Bring back the native big cats

    There. Problem solved.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Go to Wendy’s

      You would prefer that animals are raised in horrendous conditions without ever seeing sunlight only to be slaughtered over shooting an animal that has grown up in it’s natural habitat?

      Like, vegetarians I can get, because they argue that we shouldn’t be eating meat at all. Arguing that industrial farming is better for animal welfare than hunting is just absurd though.

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        8 hours ago

        There is a correlative link between the willingness to hurt animals and psychopathy. You start out hiring animals and you are more likely to be okay hurting humans.

        If people are going to choose to eat meat, then I would prefer that they are protected from the trauma that comes with animal killing.

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          6 hours ago

          From the totally opposite side of this. I think that people should be required to kill and butcher an animal at least once if they’re going to eat meat.

          That would quickly end factory farming, which needs to be abolished anyhow. We’d have a lot more vegans.

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          7 hours ago

          If that’s the side you’re coming from then I guess I can understand your argument. I was thinking from an animal welfare perspective, and the argument (which I’ve seen made before) that hunting is inhumane and that people should get their meat at the store instead.

          As a side-note, I would really like a link to something backing up that people who hunt for food are more likely to be psychopaths.