| More and more of us are taking an
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| | be destined for the pot, whether that of
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| interest in the provenance of our food,
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| | the shooter directly or to a member of
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| and like to find out where and how it was
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| | the public through a game dealer. The
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| produced. Nowhere is this more the case
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| | animals are not being killed cruelly, and
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| than with the meat we eat. While to some
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| | with a good marksman will not feel any
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| people eating meat is totally unethical
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| | pain.
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| and immoral, and should be avoided
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| | If we set aside any misgivings engendered
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| completely, a sizable number of us take a
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| | by the link with sport, we can see that
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| less strict stance, believing that it's
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| | game is probably the most ethically sound
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| ethically justifiable to kill and eat
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| | meat we can eat. There's no
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| animals, providing that certain standards
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| | classification of meats into free range
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| are adhered to.
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| | or organic here - each animal lived a
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| The welfare of the animal, under this way
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| | completely free life, behaving exactly as
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| of thinking, is paramount and takes
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| | its species has evolved to, and was very
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| precedence over such considerations as
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| | likely to have met its end without any
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| profit, economy and availability. The
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| | stress or pain at all.
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| animal must be given the chance to live a
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| | It will have eaten a completely natural
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| life free from suffering, in conditions
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| | diet, and will not have been given any
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| that allow it to express its natural
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| | routine medication such as antibiotics or
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| behaviours, and when the time comes for
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| | growth hormones. It will not have lived
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| slaughter the process should be as free
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| | in cramped, overcrowded, conditions, and
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| of stress and pain as is humanly
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| | will have in fact avoided almost all
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| achievable - which is, in this day and
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| | contact with humans completely!
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| age, almost wholly so.
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| | Compare this to the misery we routinely
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| Under these standards, what could come
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| | inflict on intensively reared animals
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| higher on the ethical list than game such
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| | such as broiler chickens, pigs, and veal
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| as venison, pheasant, or wild duck?
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| | calves, both in life and death, and it's
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| Opponents of game will often base their
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| | clear that game animals will have had
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| dislike of the subject on the fact that
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| | much the preferable existence and
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| the usual method of killing the animals
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| | dispatch, whatever prejudices we may hold
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| is through shooting, which suffers from a
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| | against those who shoot as a sport.
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| reputation problem by being linked in
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| | And luckily for ethical meat eaters, game
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| with other 'blood sports' such as fox
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| | is amongst the most delicious food we'll
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| hunting. In contrast to cruel sports,
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| | ever put on our plates!
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| though, the results of a game shoot will
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