INTRODUCTION:
Mr. Speaker, good ladies and gentlemen of the House,
We've all seen it happen - Bambi, Nemo, Elmer Fudd, Jurassic Park 2
Bloodsports that hurt animal family groups and their environment.
This is actually a tender spot for me because I have a little pet rabbit named Walter that I love a lot and I know he'd drown his sorrows in pomegranate juice if someone ever shot his mother.
So I'm urging you join the logical team - say no to wabbit season as well as duck season.
The honorable Prime Minister and I say yes to banning bloodsports. And I have two reasons why.
#1 - It's harmful to endangered and extinct animals
and #2 - it has negative habitat and environmental impacts.
BUT FIRST I’D LIKE TO REFUTE
WHAT THE OPPOSITION HAD TO SAY:
Now on to my two points:
#1. Bloodsports are harmful because they contribute to endangered and
extinct animals
#2. Bloodsports have negative habitat and environmental impacts
#1. Bloodsports are harmful because they contribute
to endangered and extinct animals
·
Trophy
hunting is practiced mostly by the elite upper class people who make over 6
figures, and is the most luxurious when you can get endangered or extinct
animals as your trophy
·
Peregrene Falcon - US
o
Endangered
species
o
Not used
for food – but hunted for sport, even to extinction in some areas of the
country
·
Carolina
Parakeet
·
Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits
o
World’s
Smallest Rabbit
o
Recently
become extinct - last few years - despite being endangered
o
Victim – hunters
could not tell the difference between them and cottontails
#2. Bloodsports have negative habitat and
environmental impacts
·
Sport Fishing
o
In sport
fishing, the point is to catch as much weight of fish as you can, as fast as
you can. The problem is that pulling a fish up too fast causes their swim
bladder to overinflate and they will die when they are released. That’s a waste
that shouldn’t happen.
o
Never mind
the effects on the fish – sport fishers in the United States sink 4,382 tons of lead sinkers
every year (U.S. Geological Survey)
o
Trash,
oil leak pollution
§
This
disturbs the delicate eco balance of river and lakebeds, which can ruin an
entire local food chain.
·
Population control is not an effective excuse.
o
Bloodsport
hunters do not hunt the weak, they hunt the magnificent predators.
o
They
don’t thin the herd.
§
This can
result in all kinds of unprecedented stuff like
·
Problems
with Genetic diversity
o
For
instance, US hunters got the predators that once thinned the white tailed deer
population and it actually results in overpopulation of deer.
§
If
bloodsports were banned, messing with these delicate ecosystems and populations
would not be a problem.
AND
THAT’S HOW BLOODSPORTS CONTRIBUTE TO
ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT ANIMALS AND HAVE NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENDANGERED AND EXTINCT ANIMALS AND HAVE NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
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Bryttani
Marking-Giles
Professor
Gillespie
Human
Communication
10 December
2012
Works
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Media, 25 June 2010. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.
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Questions Regarding Peregrine Falcons." Endangered Species Program.
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Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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