The Killing of Animals in its many aspects

[godwulf]

Kitsune wrote:

...you seem very concerned with the feelings of a wild animal killed when hunted, but you don't seem to be concerned with the lives animals lead that are specifically raised for slaughter

You have a valid point...except that I AM concerned about the horrific conditions in factory farms and 'processing plants' of various kinds; but those institutions are always going to exist - all that can be done is to work toward strengthening and enforcing the laws that are designed to lessen the stress and pain experienced by the animals. Meat-eating is too deeply entrenched in our culture to ever go away, short of the extinction of all of the animals that we, as a species, can figure out how to choke down.

Hunting, on the other hand, is just a legally and (for the most part) socially acceptable (though rapidly shrinking, in terms of those who regularly participate) means for a borderline sociopathic mind to get its jollys in killing a living thing.

Kitsune also wrote:

Maybe you are much more concerned with the mentality involved in the enjoyment of death than the actual death of the animal itself?

You're undoubtedly right. I would not go so far as to accuse someone who worked in a factory farm, or a farmer slaughtering animals to feed his family, of being sick in the head; I have no such qualms when it comes to 'sport hunters'.