Monday, August 27, 2012
In Defense of Duck Hunting: A Hunters Manifesto
Ever since my dad first took me in the blind with him when I was seven years old, I have been an avid duck hunter in the winter months. Duck hunting is truly my passion and I go just about every weekend during the season. Although I love this sport, a lot of people disagree with what I do and think it is wrong because it involves killing animals.
Duck hunting is okay to do because most duck hunters like me do not only hunt ducks, but support them by donating to wildlife companies such as Ducks Unlimited to help ducks thrive. Ducks Unlimited's main purpose is to help preserve the wetlands for the ducks as well as provide us with numbers of the ducks each year to determine a proper limit. If people didn't care about hunting in the first place, Ducks Unlimited would never have formed which means the ducks' wetlands would not have been kept preserved for them to live in. Also, hunters pluck and cook all of the ducks that they have killed so they are shot for a good purpose, and coming from experience I'd have to say they are one of my favorite things to eat.
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Ducks Unlimited sounds like a good organization. You made a good argument for duck hunting
ReplyDeleteGood argument, Brennan. I like the way you organize your paragraphs - beginning with your connection, moving to the threat against it, and then using the second paragraph to make the argument for. I've been thinking a lot about the connections between hunting culture and IDOF - hunting is a way out of the industrial food business. You know that what you are eating is not an animal that has been kept in a tiny cage and fed stuff that doesn't belong in its natural diet or been pumped with antibiotics and hormones. I like the environmental argument you make here, too, that hunters are often the biggest conservationists because they truly value the loss of wild spaces and habitats. I do think there are opportunities to develop this argument further and offer additional reasons for duck hunting - cultural preservation, experiencing nature, etc.
ReplyDeleteDuck hunting seems fun, you should take me sometimes. Ducks Unlimited sounds like a good organization to help ducks,I think they should have organizatins like this for all animals people hunt.
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