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Ted Kerasote in his book, Bloodties (I think that is the title),
compared hunting to veganism in terms of petroKcalolries usage, which
is an index of the amount of fossil fuel used in production of a
standardized amount of edible calories.

An interesting approach, not just because of the oil problems facing
the world, but also because there seems to be a strong relation between
petro usage and environmental damage (which relates to real animal
suffering and death).

He found hunting did the least harm per calorie consumed, even figuring
in the petroKcalories required to produce a 4x4 vehicle. Potatoes and
such required about an order of magnitude more petroKcalories.

It wouldn't surprise me, if trapping produced less animal suffering per
coat made, than say a goretex synthetic coat.

As they say, there is no "free lunch".

Paul Shepard, the prohunting environmentalist - if not the father of
"deep ecology", probed this vein with some very interesting books
(e.g., The Tender Carnivore and The Sacred Game").

A google search on his name will bring up several websites some here
may find interesting.