i agree with ya.
fair to the animal, probably not at all.
healthy? id say so, after all the average american is only 15 or 20 lbs overweight.
i think that if people ate more lean meat (wild game) that we wouldnt have the problems. but then, if they did, there wouldnt be as many animals in the forest, or near as much land for us to hunt, so maybe in that respect its for the best.

i feel like an authority on this topic, i am 30, grew up on beef, pork, ect. even though my family hunted a ton (i never have figured out what happened to all the meat we must have had, we hardly ever had wild game, and i considered it a treat when we did) and was very heavy through my youth and early adulthood. it has taken me years to lose that weight, and im not there yet....but actually not too far off finally
my 2 cents worth
brad