This post is part of an ongoing series called Most Common Justifications for Eating Animals where we seek to provide answers and resources to better address these justifications.
Is hunting animals morally superior to buying them in the store?
We so often hear from hunters who make the case that while factory farming is wrong, there is nothing unethical about eating animals who have been hunted in the wild. After all, the reasoning goes, the animals live a completely natural life just as nature intended, and die more quickly, and with less fear and pain than they would experience with other predators.
But all of this begs the question of necessity. Most North Americans and Europeans (and many others) who hunt do not do so because they have to in order…
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Exposing the Big Game 
We should neither hunt animals for eating, very much often a rationalization for sports killing, nor buy animals in the store for eating, both are unethical. We need need neither. Both are barbaric and cruel. Plant based eating supplies better nutrition. Elmer Fudd Nimrods (hunters) and Wannabe Jeremiah Johnsons are primitive relics from a past. The wildlife populations do not need population control by hunting and trapping, excuses for hunting. Wildlife will manage their own populations.
Yes, Roger. You are definitely right. Man is the true Beast. Specism (or anthropocentrism) is the threat of the planet. Everything is so damn connected: the fires to make way for monocultures of animal fodder, to then consume their meat and use their skins… the savage wild fishing that kill and deprive the big fish of food, with the chain reaction… the pollution of the waters and soil with the consequences that are already written in each magazine…
Now we are rebelling (and we are aware that it is the only way), first there was Greenpeace, Sea Sheppard, WWF and a thousand others in the coalition, now powerful movements arise which include everyone, for example Extinction Rebellion… and maybe something will change. For good. :-)c
Well said!
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