Hunting: How We Control Our Animal Population

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Hunting: How We Control Our Animal Population Animal overpopulation is a serious problem in the United States. In some areas, it is destroying nature. Food is becoming scarce and animals are forced to eat other vegetation that they normally wouldn’t eat. Some of the plants are on the endangered plants list. So, hunting is definitely one of the best ways of controlling the population. Hunting. Some see it as food. Some see it as sport. Some even see it as cruelty to animals. Who is right? Hunting is the natural way of controlling the animal population in the world. Can you imagine a world with no hunting? By keeping the numbers down, it keeps us humans safer. We would be overrun by animals in certain places. Eating our crops and damaging our possessions is one of the reasons why we are allowed to hunt animals legally. Humans aren’t the only ones hunting. The food chain relies on the predator/prey balance. In the following, I will be discussing the origins of hunting and how it has evolved from using rocks and sticks to modern day equipment. Also, why should we hunt if for many thousand years predation took care of the problem. There are many forms of hunting and ways of humanely controlling the populations. Some people even see hunting as cruelty. Many people think it’s not a necessity. This discussion is especially for you. It is all in your way of interpreting the situation. The origin of hunting: Hunting has been around long before the Homo sapiens. Before man, animals were hunting each other for survival. That is how God intended it to happen. Imagine a world without hunting. Animal populations would be out of control. The entire world would be overrun with every animal known to man. If there wasn’t hunting, animals wouldn’t be able to survive. The food chain relies on such balance. From the largest animal, to the smallest of animals, the predator/prey

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