Hunting.
Most people think hunting is bad but it gets you meat and if hunters are trained and do it in a good way it won't hurt the environment. Most people don’t like the idea of killing animals but still eat meat although if hunting was banned then wouldn’t have that meat.
Back before we could buy meat people had to hunt to survive. If they didn’t people would die because they didn’t have many other food sources. Years after years people still hunted to survive but then people also started selling meat so hunting wasn’t just for survival also for money. Now days people can make thousands of dollars selling meat. So hunting was for survival and money and it was the way of life.
Hunting encourages people to get there own meat. Some supermarkets get their meat from big companies that kill there meat in horrible ways. As a result of the animals being killed like that they release stress hormones ,which are bad for you, however if the animal doesn’t see you they have a slightly less chance of releases those hormones. People think hunting is bad but the meat you buy from the supermarket has been killed much more painfully than hunters do.
Hunting keeps the populations of lots of animals down. Lots of pest animals breed very quickly and they cause loss to our natural environment this will affect our native wildlife and their habitats. Some of NZ's most endangered species like Kiwi are hunted by possums and stoats. Stoats also eat lots of birds eggs and our national birds food. Goats are also pests, although you may not think that they are but they can stomp on native plants and also eat them too this is a problem because NZ might lose the plants. So hunters aren’t as bad as you might think because they keep the population down of pests.
Hunting for meat may be good and helpful trophy hunting is bad. An example of trophy hunting is when the White Rhino was almost hunted to extinction and now only three left which are all too old to breed. Also lots of inexperienced hunters shoot animals mistaken for other animals for example in New Zealand is when a hunter shot a Takahe, which are endangered being mistaken for a pukeko that are very large in population. Hunting for meat may be good and helpful trophy hunting is bad.
So hunting isn’t actually as bad as you may think it can help keep populations down, allows you to get healthier food and still much more things. So if you didn’t like hunting then hopefully this article changed your mind.
