According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation 680,000 jobs have been created by the practice of hunting in the United States. That is a miniscule number compared to the $796 million that hunters directly contribute to conservation programs each year in the United States (National Shooting Sports Foundation). Hunting has always been an essential part of American life, a past time that transcends ethnicity, age, religion and gender. Passed from generation to generation, the practice of hunting originally served to keep us alive as our ancestors sought to survive extreme conditions by hunting animals and then consuming the remains, growing stronger in the process, in this sense you can say that hunting has been embedded into our DNA and
