Without hunting the ecosystems would be unbalanced and more animals will be killed by cars rather than by natural predators. Without hunting, animals would die more frequently because and the environment would become unbalanced. As of today game populations will explode, grasses would die from over consumption by the game. Next, small animals will die. After, large game will die because of lack of food. The predators will die as well from lack of food. The entire ecosystem will go down and that is why hunting is important. Hunting needs to thrive instead of decrease, as it has done in the past few decades. Even though some people believe that hunting is not a good practice, I believe that hunting can teach many life skills. Examples are, respect and understanding of wildlife, the conservation of the animal’s environment, and the process of working to collect food to eat.

I believe hunting is a great way to learn and understand the wild and how to conserve it as well. One reason why hunting helps the environment, is that hunting helps conserve nature. For example, hunters have to pay taxes on equipment and on hunting tags that they purchase. Those taxes and other sources of money go to enhance wildlife  habitats, maintaining parks, and conduct research on hunting game animals but also non-hunting animals (Gibbons 1). Hunters want the environment to stay healthy, and those hunters would do anything to have that happen because hunters need a healthy ecosystem to do what they love to do, hunt. Hunters have a very important role in the conservation of wildlife. Hunters help the ecosystems by culling animals because the land that the animals live on cannot support all of the game. Without hunting, there would also be an unhealthy increase in game populations. Although many people still believe that hunting is a brutal sport, hunting is really saving the environment for everyone.  The money from the cost of hunting taxes and such may go to operations like Ducks Unlimited, who own and protect more than 20 million acres of wetland to keep the duck population strong (Baden, and O’Brien 1). Also The Theodore Roosevelt Ranch owns 6,000 acres of land where the Boone and Crockett Club research wildlife to cooperate with agriculture, as well as creating homes and a better environment for elk, mule deer, grizzly bears, cougars, eagles and cutthroat trout to live (Baben, and O’Brien 1). All of these examples show great ways to conserve wildlife all brought by the actions of hunting and the hunting population. Ecosystems are healthy and thriving. If the hunting population decreased, the game population would go up and the ecosystems would become unbalanced and unhealthy.      

Hunting teaches and demonstrates working for food and knowing that the food is healthy, clean and unprocessed. For example, unprocessed, naturally fed meat contains vitamin B12, B3, B6, iron, and zinc (Gunnars 2). Meat that is collected from hunting is not processed, and is naturally fed. Vitamin B12 is a very important vitamin and is not found in plants, which demonstrates the importance of eating organic meat from hunting. Hunting is a fun way to get food, while knowing exactly where the meat comes from. Meat collected by hunting is always organic. Harvard conducted 20 different studies to try to find a correlation between unprocessed red meat and cardiovascular disease and diabetes, only to find that there is no link between them.  The meat that is hunted has lived in the wild and had none or little human interaction until the day the animal dies, which shows that the meat is unprocessed.  Hunting provides healthy meat. An example of healthy meat  includes a reduced risk of cancer. Yes, cancer is said to be connected to almost everything but unprocessed meat reduces the risk of cancer. Processed red meat does cause people to have a higher risk of getting cancer (Gunnars 7). Even though vegetarians seem to be healthier in many ways I still believe that meat is necessary in a healthy diet. Many people are becoming vegetarians, but most vegetarians are more conscientious in their way of life than omnivores. There is no correlation to get a severe disease between a conscientious carnivore and a conscientious vegetarian (Gunnars 8). In my opinion, this indicates that meat is an essential item in the diet and that there are no negatives to eating unprocessed meat. Hunting proves to be a healthy, sustainable way to earn meat and that keeps people healthy.

Hunting has been around since the beginning of the human race. Hunting is a very misleading topic because when someone first learns about hunting and the details that it implies, such as killing an animal with a small piece of metal that pierces the animal; hunting does sound evil. But the more I have learned about hunting, the more I have come to understand that hunting helps the environment. Without hunting the animals that I thought would die from hunting will instead die from over population and being hit by cars and many more ways that in my opinion, are much more brutal. In order to increase the number of hunters and keep a balanced ecosystem, I believe that hunting should be taught responsibly and encouraged. To  increase the amount of hunters and also increasing the amount of money going to the very important organizations that do so much to protect the wildlife. If the number of hunters does not increase hunting will die off, and more and more  animals will die. Support hunting so the environment will stay beautiful. 

         Work cited
Baden, John A., PH.D., and Tim O'Brien. "Hunting Plays a Key Role in              Habitat Conservation." Hunting Plays a Key Role in Habitat Conservation. Foundation of        Research on Free Economics and the Environment, 1 Feb. 1995. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.
Gibbons, Whit “Why Is Hunting Good For The Environment?” Why Is Hunting Good For The           Environment? Savannah River Ecology  Laboratory, 17 Nov. 2003. Web. 21 Oct. 2015
Gunnars, Kris, BSc. “7 Evidence-Based Health Reasons to Eat Meat.” RSS 20.                      AUTHORITY NUTRITION, 08 Oct. 2013. Web. 21 Oct. 2015