one of my peta friends came over to do some shooting at the range with me. On the way back we started talking about hunting. He asked me why i hunt and i could not think of why, so after i got home i started think about why and here with i came up with.
There is a debate going on in America over rather it is ethically correct to hunt and kill animals just for sport. The harvesting of game animals for food has been vital to the existence of man-kind for centries. Hunting of deer, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, doves, and pheasants, enabled people to survive in the “new world”, and was essential to everyday life. The colonists lived off the land and what it could provide. As Americans expanded west, and their numbers grew, game hunters had to slaughter hundreds of animals for food. Such slaughters led to the demise of the buffalo in western states like Kansas. Hunting guidelines established by sportmen such as Theodore Rosevelt in 1870, helped to set the rules for hunting. Americans began to depend less on hunting for food due to the various inventions that beniffited ranchers and farmers. The invention of the railroad allowed lots of cattle to be shipped and sold to far-away states, and people stopped hunting for food and began hunting as a sport. Hunting at all became seen as wrong by most Americans, and people questioned if the killing of animals should be allowed. Around 1970 , such animal rights groups like PETA, began fighting for the consideration of animal’s right to survive. These groups believe animals are equal to humans and they should never be harmed to benefit humans. Others say that hunting promotes violence and bad behavior in children. Merrit Clifton who founded the group Animal People, believes that hunting can lead to serial killers, child molestration, prostitution, and wife beatings. Hunters often trespass, litter, dispose of killeld animals inappropriately, and misbehave in public. These actions have led to less and less land being available for hunting. Landowners feel they can’t trust hunters. They are concerned that the hunters will leave gates open, destroy property, poach, and use unsafe methods. Hunters have been known to display bloody deer on the top of their vans, leave tail-gates down so everyone can see the dead deer and are seen as oppressive rednecks with guns. The major argument against hunting is that it’s too dangerous. The media has inspired this belief by many negative stories about hunters and hunting accidents. A arguement for hunting is that deer meat is very healthy to eat and low in fat, and hunting provides homeless people with meat they would never have gotten otherwise. Hunters often donate unused meat to local food banks. Also, hunting is a great management tool for animal population control. Coyotes, wolves, mountain lions, panthers, and birds of prey are all predators that evade neighborhoods and are controlled by local hunters. Hunting is a benefit to humans by limiting the number of deer each year who are hit by vehicles. These accidents cause a estimated $50 million dollars in vehicle damage and run up auto insurance costs. Deer accidents, according to a study done by Cornell University in 1990, cause two deaths and a 1, 000 injuries each year. Wild animals also invade yards destroying lawns and gardens. This is a huge problem in areas where hunting is prohibited by law. Monroeville, P.A. has suffered greatly by not allowing hunting of wild animals, and it’s residents lawns and gardens are infested with hungry wild animals searching for food. Eight foot fences have been erected around the town to keep dangerous animals from invading homes and causing further mayhem. Professional hunters who are exspensive to hire, have to be called into these areas to eradicate such animals. Sport hunters could have been a more natural alternative. Sport hunting has been a proven asset to both humans and animals in the wild, and allowing a balanced harmony between man and animal. James A. Swan a environmental psychologist, has written that whenever we deny our natural instincts such as hunting, we create problems for ourselves, those around us, and the world. He states that in our inner nature we are all animals with a desire to hunt of some sort. Our challenge as humans is to find the best ways to express our instinctual nature. We must learn to deal with the deepest issues of life and death and use the most ethical methods of hunting. The last advantage of the hunting argument is that hunting helps the economy. South Dakota Fish and Game Departments have stated that sportsmen who hunt contribute3million dollars a day to wildlife conservation funds. Over a period of just one year, this adds up to 1.5 billion extra dollars. It s also estimated that sportsmen contribute 14 billion dollars to the American economy, which supports more than 300, 000 jobs. This information is according to big hunting states like South Dakota. The Louisana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries has had a huge problem with Nutria rodents. These rodents are native to South Americia, and has been a introduced and invasive semi-aquatic rodent in coastal Louisana. Nutria escapes and possible releases from nutria farms in the 1930s and the decline in the fur trapping industry since mid 1980, has resulted in their over population. Annual surveys have revealed that about 80, 000 acres of coastal wetlands in Louisiana can be damaged by the nutria. Since the introduction of the Coastwide Nutria Control Program, the amount of impacted acres has been reduced to 53, 475 acres. Nutria herbivory damage is a on going problem, and many damaged sites are not likely to recover naturally. Without comprehensive hunting of these nutria pests, the Louisiana coastal ecosystem is very threathened. The Coastwide Nutria Control Program pays hunters $4 per nutria tail delivered by registered hunters to their collection centers in coastal Louisiana. The goal of the program is to encourage the harvest of up to 400, 000 nutria each year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that America’s hunters are wealthier than ever, and they spend more money than ever on their sport. There has been a 29% increase in hunting over the past ten years. Hunting has been often cited as the greastest wildlife conservation movement in history. The successful revitalization of whitetail deer, turkeys, elk, and more game animals that hovered near extinction, is the envy of the industrial world. This is a pleasant reality in which American hunters live in the 21st century; states Jim Posewitz director at large for Orion, The Hunter’s Institute think tank group. Some non-hunting groups accept hunting as a legitmate way to acquire meat, and this practice is healthier than the slaughter-house fare. Numerous surveys suggest that most people will continue to accept huntin if every sportsman obeys the laws, shoots carefully and accurately, and utilizes every part of the wild animals they kill. Despite the pro advantages of hunting, this sport may come to a end with groups like PETA that encourages that hunting is wrong and unjust.
i gave my paper to my peta friend and ask well what you think. He said " i see, you hunt because you just a animal at heart and it's in you to hunt" he ask if he could keep it to show to his group and i said do it.
