Hundreds of thousands of years ago, people primarily depended on wild foods for subsistence. Hunting played a vital role to the human species’ survival. It was truly a man vs nature battle played out every day. With developing technology, and improved practices, this no longer needs to be the case. Today, most modern hunters are not destitute of food, and don’t necessarily need to continue killing animals. Hunting is now simply a violent form of recreation and is not morally right.
When asked upon hunting’s morality, hunters are quick to reply with several convincing statistics: acres of habitat protected by hunting-generated funds, how many game species have experienced population increases due to modern game management, how much the economy is
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Millions of animals are killed or severely wounded on public land every year, and "…poachers kill just as many animals illegally"(peta.org). Many hunters claim that the sport is not intended to cause pain and is done in the most humane way possible. In contrast, studies have shown that half of the animals shot are just left there. One biologist in the South Dakota department of Game, Fish and Parks, found that "…more than 3 million wounded ducks go 'unretrieved' every year"(Vaa). Not only were they just shot for no reason, but many were left to slowly die. In Never Cry Wolf, author Farley Mowat recounts yet another story of animals dying for nothing, "…stating that no use had been made of the carcasses"(157). The deer were shot several times; one had "…run a hundred yards with its intestines dragging on the ice as a result of a gut wound. Several of the others had two or more bullet-broken limbs"(157). If an animal should die due to unnatural causes, their life should at the least be respected, and made use