Well briefly in our defense, we were harvesting a specific pig from this population - so perhaps hunting is the wrong word. I'll give you that. - but considering that we got to keep all of the meat and none of it is going to waste, I can't see how it can be considered cruelty to animals. With that logic, all people raising animals for slaughter are guilty of that charge - frankly these pigs have it a lot better than many of those.