IE-3W Final Draft "Should Hunting Be Banned?"

　Final Draft
Katsuki Fujiuchi
Should Hunting Be Banned?

Today, there are lots of opinions about hunting animals. For example, some say that people shouldn’t hunt animals to protect animals and the nature. They also say that hunting is a way to get weapons easily, and these weapons cause accidents such as murder. But, hunting helps people’s life in many ways, from the Stone Age to Today. Should hunting really have to be banned? As written on this paper, hunting helps people life. At present, hunting should not be banned, but hunters should know some about the dangers of hunting.

Many things have good points and bad points, and so does hunting. Firstly, some hunters use their hunting tools not for hunting but as to kill people. On December 14, 2007, a hunter in Sasebo, Nagasaki killed two people and injured six by using his gun. Even though the article of The Kobe Shimbun Japanese version says “The behavior of the man was unusual since he got the license of holding guns.”, this kind of accident – a man who got a gun legally using it for killing people – had not happened in Japan before, and because this accident was very shocking, some people say that hunting should be banned.

Next, metals - especially lead - used in the bullets harm nature. For example, hunters use bullets that are made of lead when they hunt deer. Usually, that wouldn’t be a problem, but it becomes a problem when they leave the part that the bullets hit at the hunting place. Japanese version of Wikipedia says “If birds eat that, they –especially eagles –get lead poisoning.”

A third thing is the problem about protecting animals. If the human race kills faster than animals born, it will die out. Dying out is the worst thing, and it is also true that nature balance will be damaged. If nature balance was damaged, than it causes serious problems to the Earth.

There are good parts about hunting, however. For example, some animals – such as bears and deer ― eat farm products. Therefore, food that people eat will be damaged. To protect from animals, hunting is one way.

Secondly, some animals harm human beings. Bears are good example. To protect people from these kinds of animals, one way is to hunt and decrease the number of them.　Also, people get a lot of things from animals. For example, humans eat meat – pork, beef, chicken, fish etc – as a meal, plus, their fur is used in what humans wear.

Taking these reasons into consideration, it is bad to ban hunting. However, hunters must know the dangerous part of hunting. Also, people should know that man-made things such as bullets can change nature rapidly.

Work Cited

“Sasebo-ransyaziken / Bousou-husegu-zyu-kannrino-tetteiwo ” The Kobe Shimbun. 16 December 2007
http://www.kobe-np.co.jp/shasetsu/0000772486.shtml

“ Syu-ryoh ” Wikipedia, Japanese. September 2008
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%A9%E7%8C%9F