Is their hunting lifestyle more ethical than the lifestyle of current day hunters, other omnivores and vegetarians? Yes, they killed the animals, but didn't torture them in factory farms atleast. They disrupted the ecosystem yes, but they didn't have the choice/learn about agriculture.
Is their hunting lifestyle more ethical than the lifestyle of vegans of today? I'd say no because these hunters would have still intentionally killed animals when plant based options could have been available. Current day vegans make the choice of leaving out animal products when plant based options are available. So current day vegans are morally superior to those old age hunter gatherers.
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Imagine if the entire world became vegan, we could return back atleast 30 million sq km back to forests. That's a 75% increase of forest area. And if we leave this increased forest area alone(don't hunt) we could finally stop the holocene mass extinction.
Now imagine if the entire world population of 7.5 billion(leaving out 0.5 billion due to vegetarians/vegans) embraced the hunter gatherers lifestyle of hunting in the forests, imagine what would happen. This is the current animal stock situation in the world as of now.
Cattle 416 Million Tonnes
Buffalo 68 Mt
Sheep 39 Mt
Pigs 38 Mt
Goats 32 Mt
Chickens 73Mt (I calculated approximately)
Camels 9Mt
Didn't include turkeys and other birds.
total 684 million tonnes.
Wild land mammals - 24 Mt
Let's add another generous 70 Mt of wild reptiles and wild birds left in. the wild.
That's just 94 million of wild animal mass in total.
So these 7.5 billion people letting go of 684 million tonnes of grazing and factory farmed animals, and embracing a hunting lifestyle to just get 94 million tonnes of wild animals. How long do you think these poor wild animals would last? They would completely empty the forests of wild animals max within 3 years of hunting.
