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In reply to the discussion: Had a nice day deer hunting in Maine today. Last day for regular season. A big Maine tradition. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)that the deer's quality of life is much greater than the factory farm creatures that provide the majority with meat.
If you want to advocate for a vegetarian diet, go for it. I eat very little meat myself. Tonight's dinner: vegetarian chili with ground quorn for protein.
Unless you are going to take a stand against eating ALL animal products, though, it's hard to support an argument defending one beautiful animal over another.
For that matter, assuming ethical and reasonable hunting practices, the death is less stressful than a factory slaughter, too.
I'm not a hunter, although I do like deer and elk meat on occasion. But I know enough about the mass production of meat to know that hunting is not the great evil.
Happily, when I do eat meat, I can get locally home-raised and butchered meat, knowing that the animal that feeds me led a decent, if shorter, life.
I live in an area with a high deer population. If hunters quit hunting them, we're going to have to increase the cougar population and introduce wolves to keep them from over-populating themselves into famine. I'm not against either of those solutions, as long as we can keep the human population from increasing and gobbling up habitat.