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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by bumby on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:42PM (#29322345)
>Eating farm animals requires you to grow 9 times as many crops to feed them as if you had just eaten the crops directly

This applies to industrial meat production. Do your thoughts change in regards to hunting/fishing which doesn't (necessarily*) rely on industrial crop agriculture?

(I realize a lot of species population numbers - especially deer in the Midwest - are inflated due to the availability of crops for them to feed upon. But there are other species where this isn't necessarily the case.)

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by valenaut on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:05PM (#29382218)
Yes, I'd say hunting and fishing don't have this problem. I have other ethical issues with eating animals, but hunting wildlife is orders of magnitude better than industrial agriculture.
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