The Ethics Of Prize Hunting

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Prize Hunting has been a big dispute whether it is ethical or unethical. Animals live in our environment and help the ecosystem,yet animals are hunted everyday. We do this for our needs;food, clothes, and just for sport. Even with the mass killings of animals. They still manage to live in our environment. Many claim that killing animals is inhumane and cruel,but in certain ways, it’s not. So is hunting animals causing them to go extinct? The answer to that is no. Prize Hunting is different from normal hunting. It starts out as an auction for select animals to hunt. The person with the highest bid, earns the “Prize” to hunt down the animal they auctioned for. Doctor Mark Smith,a worker at the Alabama Wildlife Federation confirms, “The more

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