An Insight into Hunting

Hunting is an interesting subject and is one that there are many opinions on. However, centuries ago hardly anyone would have had an opinion against hunting compared to today’s people. Has our culture come to some new knowledge that has revealed them to the wrongs of hunting?

Hunting has been an essential part of humanity since the beginning of their existence. For the past thousands of years mankind has depended on the animals around them. Ancient manuscripts and cave paintings have shown that hunting played an important part in the life of the ancients. During those times nobody questioned the rightness of hunting because it was so essential to their life and part of their nature. In the 1600’s, the people lived off the land of deer, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, doves, and pheasants. In truth, without the existence of hunting the colonist would not have survived.

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Today, very few hunters are hunting out of a need to survive. Instead, hunting has become more of a "sport". As a result, it has remained popular and many, many species have been wiped out.

In Britain, the killing of animals has been taken in several forms: farmers with guns shoot at pheasants to keep them from eating their crops; a group of teenage lads going out at night to catch rabbits to sell; and the rich charging around the countryside on horses with dogs chasing a fox in the name of sport.

In other countries hunting seems to be ...

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