We need to eat to live [ so why not enjoy this]
But we really don't need to eat meat to live, this is a clear scientific fact, millins survive without doing so, and there's reasonable evidence that if anything, they're healthier for doing so.
the 'pleasure' gained from eating is more to do with the instinctive need to survive,
We eat meat be cause we gain enjoyment from it, there's nothing wrng with that, for most of us it is societal normality... but please, don't decieve yourself that there is any need to do so, getting someone to kill an animal so you can eat it is no different from killing it yourself, and the only motivation is pleasure, there is no need for it to be killed. Human beings can survive perfectly well without the need for meat (I'll make an exception to this if you're an Eskimo)
Hell, if we really wanted to expand it, the only morally sustainable meat is of animals that compete with us for food resource - deer, pigeons, rats, mice, rabbits - they're all wild animals, and for us to continue surviving by eating vegetables, you could argue that we need to keep their populations in check to ensure our own survival... animal reared for meat in agricultural conditions, totally morally unsupportable, their entire existence is only there so we can kill them, and eat them (which we don't need to do) they don't get even the slightest chance of survival.
back to pheasants, of 1000 birds released, an estate can realistically expect to recover around a third - the rest either die of predation or natuural wastage, or survive and go feral. thats a lot better odds than the turkeys at Bernard Matthews.
