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Anon goes hunting
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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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.
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.
Its not a punishment, it's the idea that they at some levels understand and have made the same sacrifice.
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.
Squirrels and rabbits hunt other animals??
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.
They'll eat their own young and the young of competing animals, so it counts. Both will also eat insects as well which I feel counts