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Essay / The Negative Sides of Hunting and Trapping - 591
Deer hunting can be bad, even though everyone loves it. This is detrimental to the population because there aren't many deer around anymore. The problem is that more deer are injured than killed. A study of 80 radio-collared white-tailed deer found that of the 22 deer that were shot with archery equipment, 11 were injured and not recovered by hunters. There are a few studies I want to talk about first. A biologist with the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks estimates that more than 3 million injured ducks go unrecovered each year. Over 3 million ducks is crazy, they could feed over 10 families and now they just sit on the ground and suffer. Here's another study I'd like to talk about. A British study of deer hunting found that 11 percent of deer killed by hunters died only after being shot two or more times and that some injured deer suffered for more than 15 minutes beforehand. dying. Suffering, do you think they should suffer? And if you were to suffer, it's a long but slow process: you just have to stand there and die. Just a little less...