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Hunting Is a Great Thing

I’ve been hunting ever sense I was about 7. Ever deer we take off a land owners property we get thanked for it. People always complain how deer are pests. So when we go and hunt the peoples ground they say,” It’s so nice not having deer around my house.” Their is this old lady that lives by my grandpa’s house. She was all against hunting. Then the deer started going to her house eating her flowers when the crops were all out. Then Mrs. Frundle started loving hunters. She called us every year to come hunt here ground. So People should be able to hunt! Hunting is a good thing. Hunting keeps the population at a good pace. Hunting is a big deal in many states. For example in Iowa the tags people buy they go to native animals that need to be brought back to Iowa. Also it helps the animals habitat. Think about all the accidents that deer cause, now they are having to make tunnels and over passes to slim the number of accidents caused by deer.

Hunting really does help the deer population. Hunting helps the deer from getting a disease called chronic wasting disease. Many counties in Iowa have a case of CWD. This is because the deer population is way to over populated. With the deer population large, deer have started inbreeding. That causes breeding disorders. One of those is CWD. This can be spread through dead deer. So hunting can be important to keep the deer population down.

Hunting has slimmed down the accidents caused by deer. In Iowa 25% of the car accidents were deer related. Now the state of Iowa has put up fence along major highways to reduce the accidents. They are also thinking about putting up overpasses and tunnels to reduce the number of accidents. In Alaska they have both of these and it has reduced many accidents animal related. This would be a good idea for Iowa because animals have cause more than $10,000,000 in personal injury and property damage. So animals need to be hunted. Hunting can help the poor in many ways. Iowa has a program called,” Hush”. It means Help Us Stop Hunger. This program you donate Five dollars and you give them your deer. Their is no work for you, they skin it and process the deer. So maybe you know a family that is poor, just think hunters are donating their meat for people that don’t have any food.

One complaint people have about hunting is it effects the deer population. Last year PETA bought 125 doe tags and that same year, and deer reproduced way to fast. Then deer got CWD. Also another complaint is that hunters spread lead disease from their bullets. Their has never been a case of lead poising from hunting. Most land owners want people to come hunt their ground because the deer ruin their yards, also crops. One other complaint is that deer are now moving into town. Thats because people aren’t hunting rural areas and people that are against hunting start complaining

It is clear that hunting is a great think for the environment. Hunting keeps the diseases away. Also it is preventing more accidents deer related. As long as we keep hunting,y we feed the poor that need the food. Call or E-mail the Iowa department of natural resources and tell them how we need to support hunting. Just think hunting does help those anti hunters in one way, those tags we buy go to animal habitat. Also to bring back native animals that are on the edge of extinction!