"Manufactured problem" is exactly the right phrase, but not in the way you mean it.
Other animals hunt other animals, and the ecosystem ends up in a sustainable equilibrium. Humans, however, get most of their meat from industrial agriculture, which is an extractive system that drains water tables and pumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
That's very definitely an ethical problem that we have manufactured.
Other animals hunt other animals, and the ecosystem ends up in a sustainable equilibrium. Humans, however, get most of their meat from industrial agriculture, which is an extractive system that drains water tables and pumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
That's very definitely an ethical problem that we have manufactured.