What’s your favourite food? Chicken, fish? Or maybe it’s ham? Whenever you eat these foods, do you ever wonder how it ended up in the store, where did you get it from? Most likely it was killed. Now just hunting animals for food isn’t that bad, all animals need to hunt their food to eat it, and we also need protein, but some people do it just for fun. “Apparently” it’s a “sport,” but I don’t think you should kill a LIVING BEING, just like you and I, just for fun.
One reason I think this way is, because hunting in fact, is killing 100 million animals each year in the United States of America alone. Some animals become endangered or even extinct. For example the Tasmanian tiger is extinct along with the great Auk, and the Tasmanian devil (or T-Devil) is endangered. Giant Pandas and Seals are in danger too. Even if the animal takes about one bullet shot, and then runs away, it’s still got harmed (which is the intend of hunting animals) and eventually will die a slow painful death because of the infection, lack of ability to find and hunt food (if the animal is a carnivore), or lack of blood.
Bullets aren’t the only way of killing animals. Believe it or not, people that are just out camping, contribute to the killing as well. When you have a campfire, and you put it out sometimes there still is smoke left, and that smoke can re-ignite, and cause a wildfire. When you’re out in the woods and you’re eating a bag of chips or something with plastic in it, most people don’t wait to find a garbage can to go through it out. Some have a garbage a couple meters away, but are just too lazy to go and through it out. They just drop it on the floor, or in the water, and then animals eat it thinking it as food. Then they get really sick and sometimes even die.
You know how some say “oh let’s go hunting. It’s a sport right. And sports are supposed to be fun.” Well yes it is a sport and some may think its “fun”. But think of it, do you really think that killing life is fun. Put yourself in the animal’s shoes; you’re just walking down the river to the watering hole to get a drink, suddenly you see these weird animals come out of the bushes with weird fur coats and big sticks pointing at you. You try to run but they have you surrounded. Next thing you know BANG. And you’re on the ground in pain. You look up to see what happen, and you see these gorillas dancing and laughing around you for some time. Then they just leave. You’re in terrible pain, and slowly you start to die. And the hunters, ha, they’re long gone not even caring what happen to you.
Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that life is a God given gift, and no one has the right to take it away. Animals are just like you and I, and I’m sure they also want to live a full life. They too have feelings. Man can harm animals a lot, but if we take measures, we can also help. Instead of hunting for food too much, we can use other forms of protein like; lentils and soy beans (meat is still the best form of protein). We can adopt an animal, meaning donating money to animal shelters, so that they can build more hunt free zones, hire more biologists to help protect animals. You could also volunteer in helping wild life federations like; World Wildlife Federation (WWF) (which our school is donating to), there is also Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF). You could also do little everyday things like; not littering, compost more to reduce the amount of landfills, so that animals don’t go and eat stuff from in there, and there’s a whole lot more. And remember hunting for fun, not such a good idea.
Life isn’t really that long and you spend it making choices. If you make bad choices you’ll do bad things, and that time will be wasted. What I’m trying to say is that life is short, and you should use it wisely. Make good choices in life so that you can end life thinking, “I did good things in my life. I’m proud”.
~Dilpreet=D
One reason I think this way is, because hunting in fact, is killing 100 million animals each year in the United States of America alone. Some animals become endangered or even extinct. For example the Tasmanian tiger is extinct along with the great Auk, and the Tasmanian devil (or T-Devil) is endangered. Giant Pandas and Seals are in danger too. Even if the animal takes about one bullet shot, and then runs away, it’s still got harmed (which is the intend of hunting animals) and eventually will die a slow painful death because of the infection, lack of ability to find and hunt food (if the animal is a carnivore), or lack of blood.
Bullets aren’t the only way of killing animals. Believe it or not, people that are just out camping, contribute to the killing as well. When you have a campfire, and you put it out sometimes there still is smoke left, and that smoke can re-ignite, and cause a wildfire. When you’re out in the woods and you’re eating a bag of chips or something with plastic in it, most people don’t wait to find a garbage can to go through it out. Some have a garbage a couple meters away, but are just too lazy to go and through it out. They just drop it on the floor, or in the water, and then animals eat it thinking it as food. Then they get really sick and sometimes even die.
You know how some say “oh let’s go hunting. It’s a sport right. And sports are supposed to be fun.” Well yes it is a sport and some may think its “fun”. But think of it, do you really think that killing life is fun. Put yourself in the animal’s shoes; you’re just walking down the river to the watering hole to get a drink, suddenly you see these weird animals come out of the bushes with weird fur coats and big sticks pointing at you. You try to run but they have you surrounded. Next thing you know BANG. And you’re on the ground in pain. You look up to see what happen, and you see these gorillas dancing and laughing around you for some time. Then they just leave. You’re in terrible pain, and slowly you start to die. And the hunters, ha, they’re long gone not even caring what happen to you.
Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that life is a God given gift, and no one has the right to take it away. Animals are just like you and I, and I’m sure they also want to live a full life. They too have feelings. Man can harm animals a lot, but if we take measures, we can also help. Instead of hunting for food too much, we can use other forms of protein like; lentils and soy beans (meat is still the best form of protein). We can adopt an animal, meaning donating money to animal shelters, so that they can build more hunt free zones, hire more biologists to help protect animals. You could also volunteer in helping wild life federations like; World Wildlife Federation (WWF) (which our school is donating to), there is also Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF). You could also do little everyday things like; not littering, compost more to reduce the amount of landfills, so that animals don’t go and eat stuff from in there, and there’s a whole lot more. And remember hunting for fun, not such a good idea.
Life isn’t really that long and you spend it making choices. If you make bad choices you’ll do bad things, and that time will be wasted. What I’m trying to say is that life is short, and you should use it wisely. Make good choices in life so that you can end life thinking, “I did good things in my life. I’m proud”.
~Dilpreet=D