> hunting a wild animal situates the hunter in the broader context of the natural world, in which organisms live by their wits and try to outrun others doing the same.
It's not exactly a fair fight though. In modern hunting the hunter might not always win, but he never loses.
> Can we say for them that their lives are preferable to not existing at all?
I doubt it. But we don't have to breed animals for maximum meat production at lowest cost in the shortest time. For instance the largest chicken producer in Norway [1] has declared that in future it will only produce slow growing chicken.
It's not exactly a fair fight though. In modern hunting the hunter might not always win, but he never loses.
> Can we say for them that their lives are preferable to not existing at all?
I doubt it. But we don't have to breed animals for maximum meat production at lowest cost in the shortest time. For instance the largest chicken producer in Norway [1] has declared that in future it will only produce slow growing chicken.
[1] https://www.nortura.no/b%C3%A6rekraft-i-nortura/omsorg-for-m...