The Pros And Cons Of Deer Hunting

For thousands of years human beings have had to work for their food, not everyone could just drive to the grocery store and pick up a rib-eye or walk into a fast food restaurant and order a double cheeseburger with cheese. They’ve had to physically go out, wait patiently for mother nature to yield and then claim their bounty which required a multitude of patience and skill. However today hunting stirs up a lot of controversy; Is it necessary? Should there be more regulations and less freedoms? Is it hurting or helping the environment? What benefits does hunting bring? Questions like these are what we as humans should look over before jumping straight to the conclusion that hunting is “unnecessary” or “inhumane”. As a hunter, farmer and landowner myself, I’m able to see that hunting is most definitely a necessary part of …show more content…
The main example is what are called feral hogs, which are an invasive species that terrorize southern states. In an article done by Mississippi State University they state “A conservative estimate of the cost of wild pig damage to agriculture and the environment in the United States currently stands at $1.5 billion annually.”(Mississippi) An amount like this is just unfathomable and to even the highest anti-hunting activist out there it is a situation that must be taken care of. The whole entire environment has a chain reaction like system, each animals existence effects the rest. While deer may seem like the go to animal for hunting we must also think of the effect that others have as well. Predators like coyotes, fox, bobcat, weasel, fishers all play a role in controlling the population of other animals but what happens when they are not kept in control? It results in a chain reaction until we are back to unreasonable conditions for all