The author of this excerpt from the High Country News sums it up pretty well. The bolded statements of her's are my addition for emphasis.
Jackie Wheeler teaches writing and environmental rhetoric at Arizona State University.
I think humanely killed game can be a far more ethical food source than factory-bred and slaughtered livestock. . So let’s call it what it is: killing. People have always killed to eat, and will continue to do so. Rather than linguistically sanitizing that fact, we should focus on best practices in hunting and land use in general.
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