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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I'm about to go down this journey myself. I've decided that if I can't do it then I have to stop eating meet. I won't let someone else do my dirty work.

I'm going to stick to animals that will kill / hunt other animals under normal conditions even if not directly apart of their diet.

So like turkey, fish, chicken, squirrels, rabbit

All on the table.

Idk how I feel about deer yet. I know they will eat small rodents and insects on purpose sometimes but from what I've read it's a lot less then the other animals I've mentioned and not normally under standard conditions.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Squirrels and rabbits hunt other animals??

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Rabbits no, they're typically herbivores unless starving. Some ground squirrels have been shown to hunt and eat voles, and I know that squirrels are essentially fluffy rats.

    Here's an image of a squirrel eating a dead bird carcass.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Opportunistic predators still "hunt" for their own survival. Even if they were intelligent enough to consider the morality of that, their need would likely justify it. The idea of targeting them specifically doesn't make sense if it's intended to be some sort of punishment.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Maybe consider the balance of the ecosystem you live in. Sometimes overpopulation of deer could be really detrimental to other species. So while they're not directly killing other animals, they are indirectly doing so.

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