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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Not exclusively to survive, but to allow their family to have a cheap protein source, and they probably would financially struggle even more if they couldn’t hunt.

    Animals die all the time to provide food for other creatures, and I would rather the animal have a good life out in the wilderness doing whatever it wants and then being quickly and painlessly killed than grown on a farm with little freedom for a couple years and then butchered. Also, then you can pay the proper respects to the animal for it’s flesh and you have to be the one to kill it not abstracting that away by buying it in a store. I understand not thinking any creature deserves to die but there are levels of nuance and levels of how ethical meat is to consume beyond that.

    Also, yeah a football probably could kill someone if you kicked it at their head hard enough and they didn’t have a helmet. A baseball definitely could if thrown by a professional pitcher. Not sure what relevance that has