If nature were left to its own devices they would die anyway. Probably in a much more gruesome way than at a slaughterhouse. Nature tends to do things pretty painfully.
Anyone who honestly believes that the world would be a better place without the automated slaughter of domesticated animals for food really needs to grow up and stop living in carebear world.
As Maddox says... for every animal you don't eat, I'm eating two.
Let's face the facts. Man is a carnivorous animal, he was designed to eat meat. If you really think that is evil then I don't know what to say. In order to satisfy a basic need, man has used his intelligence to devise a reasonably humane and efficient way to achieve his goal.
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Humans are weak, frail little things. Many animals would be more than capable of killing a single human that was unarmed.
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Instead of natural weapons like claws and teeth or brute strength, man has intelligence. Arguably the best weapon of all.
Well, actually if you look at the state of things, it's not even debatable. Survival of the fittest.
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Canned hunting is disgusting.
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Hmm, I don't know if I have a firm stance on hunting. At some level I think it's frivolous entertainment. However, when I really think about it, am forced to concede that it is really nothing more than an inefficient slaughterhouse and therefore kindof falls under the above.
It's the animals that take a bullet and still live only to die hours later that somewhat make me question the humanity of it all.
As far as raising animals explicitly for hunting... meh. Controlled curcumstances are arguably more humane than hunting in the wild. I think any real hunter would argue that it takes the sport out of it anyways so is pretty undesirable. I am not a hunter so I don't know.