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Arguments Against Animal Hunting
Nothing says "home sweet home" like the carcass of an animal head plastered onto a wall, overhanging a glowing fireplace. In the year of 2016, it seems as if one's home cannot possibly be completed without the ostentatious display of animal heads and other taxidermied animals, signifying the treasured "trophies" of any hunter or dead animal lover. While I agree that animal hunting is essential to ecological sustainment, it is beyond irksome when one keeps his or her hunted animals as ornaments to feed his or her aesthetic hunger. As a devoted animal rights activist, a problem that I would love to fix would be to cease the utilization of deceased animals for ornamentation.
The topic of hunting is prevalent throughout most of the United States; however, a plethora of obsessors of this traditional American pastime thoroughly enjoy taking it to a further extent. As posting pictures of one’s freshly murdered deer is evidently not enough, it appears to be imperative that displaying the actual carcass of
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Giving children the mindset to respect animal life will obstruct their future desires to feel the need to kill animals; ultimately preventing the future utilization of them as decorations. In addition, the multitude of taxidermy establishments throughout the country must be shut down, as without these businesses, who else will provide dead animal lovers with their sought after trophies?
In closing, picture this: one sits in his or her living room with the ambient glow of his or her fireplace. However, above their fireplace lies not the plaque of an animal head, but a beautiful picture of a naturalistic animal scene. Is it not evident that observing living, joyful animals is more pleasant and aesthetically pleasing than observing a dejected carcass staring off into the void with lifeless, vacant

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