I think that guy from the Most Dangerous Game got it right.

[jackson_nash]

Rant ahead.

So I was reading this short story by someone online. So I reviewed and said that it was imcompatible for someone to be compassionate about human rights but then turn around and be a hunter. The author replied. This totally pissed me off:

Meh, I think it's possible to care about how creatures are treated and still

Comments

[etomlef]

i have more respect for people who hunt and kill their meat than for those who buy it neatly packaged at the grocery store and go "ew! i dont wanna hear that!" when i tell them how their dinner was slaughtered.

[jackson_nash]

I can respect hunters too, but it was just stupid to throw in "I'm in my school's animal rights group."

I mean really. It was weird.

[etomlef]

i guess he believes in the animal rights other than the right to life without having their face blown off by a shotgun. lol.

[xx_mle]

me too, 100%. my friend won't eat any meat unless she knows it's been hunted, and killed with little to no pain and suffering. and i have more respect for her than i do for the classic omnis.

but i know my aunt will not eat hunted meat because it's 'creul' and cries every time she hits an animal on the highway.
but when i was little and made oinking, clucking and mooing noises as she served herself and my siblings their doses of meat, she'd get upset at me, because she wanted to 'enjoy' her food, and deserved that right.

[hajari_]

That is indeed very strange.

[devolute]

Personally, I don't find it inherently hypocritical. I would rather someone hunt and care for animals than to not think about it and buy their meat at the grocery store. If anything, hunters are more connected to animals than we vegans are. I don't agree that it's right, and by my definition of animal rights, no I don't think he's adhering to its principles. But I do think those principles are somewhat flexible based on personal philosophies.

[uppity_heathen]

What short story were you reading that you said this in reference to?

[ptr2void]

I don't believe this is remarkable at all. In fact this attitude exists everywhere, especially in the modern animal 'welfare' movement. The point is to make as little effort as possible to satisfy ones moral obligations because after all we wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone now would we? ;)

I talk about this in a post I made just yesterday. What is especially gut wrenching are those who care about the environment, those who actually make a positive impact through their activism and support and then sit down each meal to a plate of dead flesh! Were they even aware of how large a carbon footprint it requires to sustain the animal before, during, and after its slaughter? Would it matter? Again .. is this too inconvenient?

I think it might be.

[emraldfire]

that is a good point, but we must also be midful of the carbon footprint of things like tofutti or earth balance etc.