>Hunting is a scared act,

pfft In practice its a bunch of drunk fat guys sitting in a blind shooting deer at the deer feeder with a gun.

Or in the case of whaling and industrial scale fishing, a floating factory that can kill and process dozens of whales (using exploding harpoons) and/or tens of thousands of fish over the span of a few months.

> However, the average life span of on animal shouldn't have any bearing on the matter.

True. Otherwise we’d all be eating veal, and I don’t see that happening ... ever!