So in other words, if we don’t kill them, they just live forever? Sorry, but I grew up on a ranch and watched animals being born, dying, and being converted to meat on a daily basis. I’ve also had the good fortune to hunt game from Alaska to Zimbabwe, trust the opinion of someone who knows. Nature deals out death in a far more cruel method than any hunter does.
Ever see a pack of wolves eat the left hip from a caribou while they are still alive? I have. I am also the biggest animal lover in the world, in a couple hours I’ll be working cattle horseback in the cutting pen, later I’ll have a Belgian Mali sleeping with my wife and I. Your last line is typical also, since you don’t eat meat, you don’t think anyone else should. By the same token, I ride a HD, so should I think riding a Honda should be illegal? Immoral?
You will never experience raising as many animals as I have, nor save the lives of as many as I have, but somehow not eating meat makes you special?
Surely you know that there would be no wild big game animals in the US without conservation efforts by hunters?
“Sorry, but I grew up on a ranch and watched animals being born, dying, and being converted to meat on a daily basis.”
Never happens to residents of California.