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Not_Hunting

Date: May 15 2009

Themes: Hobbies, Sports

Grammar: Gerunds vs. Infinitives

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Around, say, 15,000 years ago, hunting was necessary for human survival. But we’ve come a long way since the caveman days. For most of us, bringing meat home involves little more than a trip to the local supermarket.

But plenty of people still hunt, whether it’s for pleasure, tradition, or the thrill of the chase. Even Mason is thinking about giving it a try, but Marni doesn’t think that’s a good idea at all.

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Mason

Mason

Marni

Marni

Mason:  So I think hunting season is opening up soon, and I might go this year.

Marni:  What? Are you serious? I didn’t know you were such a sportsman.

Mason:  No, I mean I’ve been fishing. You know, I did the whole catch-and-release sort of thing, like trout fishing at the farm and whatnot. But no, I mean, I’ve always kind of wanted to actually go hunting hunting.

Marni:  For what purpose? I mean, you want to hunt big game? You want to know the thrill of the hunt and the chase? And because you want to kill an animal?

Mason:  I feel that people these days, we’ve been so removed from the food chain because of the supermarket and, like, the mass production of food that if I wanna be a meat-eater, if I wanna eat things that had to get killed at some point, I need to claim that right.

Marni:  OK. I have heard that argument and I do understand it. But it just seems, like, at such a great cost. I mean hunting…I just can’t get behind it. I mean innocent animals dying…

Mason:  Is it a humane thing, like you just think it’s inhumane?

Marni:  I do think it’s inhumane. And I feel like killing something for sport just seems so…I just can’t even comprehend it.

 

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Discussion

Mason tells Marni that he wants to try hunting. Most people are very far removed from the source of their food. They eat meat without really thinking about where it came from. Mason has decided that if he’s going to eat meat, he should kill it himself.

Marni is against hunting for any reason. She feels bad for the animals and can’t imagine killing an animal for sport. To her, hunting seems violent and inhumane.

Have you ever gone hunting? Do you think that hunting is inhumane, or do you agree with Mason?

 

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chenjiaosong

China

when i was a boy, i ofen go out hunting with our brother, i was born in countryside, there are many mountines, there are many wild pigs and kinds of birds. human ofen hunt them, there are less hunter little by little.

  with operation in our county, many pepole go out their home, work in factory, there are many animal in our hometown, i love my hometown, i do not forget our brother, forget our animal in the montain.

01:46 AM May 16 2009 |

Goofyguy

Goofyguy

United States

Hunting can be an interesting sport, a chance to get outdoors, carry a gun, and occasionally shoot something. I shot my first deer when I was 9, hunted througout my teen years,but now, almost never bother to go after deer or much of anything else.

What amazes me is the amount of money that people will pay to go hunting.

12:05 AM May 16 2009 |

Sum Lee

China

I totaly agree with Cerol.The day will come that no animals to hunt,and finaly they’ll hunt together!Take care!

11:25 PM May 15 2009 |

maroo84

Tunisia

 There are many people who like to kill animals just for pleasure or for sport and this is not a goog thing        but we must kill animals if we wanna eat meat so there is no reason to feel sorry or guilty.

11:16 PM May 15 2009 |

Ca_Brazil

Ca_Brazil

Brazil

Ive never gone hunting, I dont get behind to go hunting for sport or fun, it inst necessary hunting to eat, i like eat meat but i believe kill animals for sport is not a good thing.

09:44 PM May 15 2009 |

Amido Hernan Rios

Colombia

I like to go fishing once a month. It's my favorite sport.

09:43 PM May 15 2009 |

Amido Hernan Rios

Colombia

I like to go fishing once a month. It's my favotire sport.

09:36 PM May 15 2009 |

Mira_Memoir

Egypt

No, I've never gone hunting and I don't think I'd ever do it or even see it being done. Eating animals' meat is one thing and watching them die or killing them is a whole other story, at least to me!

08:44 PM May 15 2009 |

hazamov

hazamov

Russian Federation

You haven't to kill animal yourself in order to be closer to food chain. You have to work and earn money, to be in right place in the ecosystem. 

It would be the same, if a caveman tries to start build a university and become a professor, since human is not only predator,but intelligent too.

 

08:26 PM May 15 2009 |

Mehdi_B_S

Mehdi_B_S

Tunisia

I think that if we feel bad for animals killed, we have better stop eating their meat. And, if we eat meat, there will be no reason to feel guilty. There is nothing unhumane in it and I'd like to do it!!

07:16 PM May 15 2009 |

cerol

cerol

Turkey

   One day there will be no animal for hunting and that time people will began hunt each others..

06:21 PM May 15 2009 |

cerol

cerol

Turkey

   One day there will be no animal for hunting and that time people will began hunt each others..

06:21 PM May 15 2009 |

MiSS_AZERI

Azerbaijan

to kill animals its awfull

06:01 PM May 15 2009 |

MiSS_AZERI

Azerbaijan

bf  i hate when some animal is hunted.

it very horrible

but for human life we have to eat meat… but it doesnt mean that we must hunt animals.

05:58 PM May 15 2009 |

_enigma_

_enigma_

Germany

I do origami in my free time. I like to go fishing also.

05:52 PM May 15 2009 |

FISH TEA

FISH TEA

China

hunting is so curel to animals.we can do another sport instead.

03:46 PM May 15 2009 |

surajpunnappurath

India

Hunting for sport is really a wild hobby.

02:58 PM May 15 2009 |

surajpunnappurath

India

Hunting for sport is really a wild hobby.

02:58 PM May 15 2009 |

freewilly87

Germany

I have never been hunting! I do not think that hunting is inhumane. If we want to eat meat there must be big game hunters or something like that who kill animals.

For me it is very important that animals no matter what kind of it do not fell any kind of pain. This is the reason why most of the animals are killed with a head shot

01:52 PM May 15 2009 |

Christoph07

Germany

Somewhere we have problems in ecological balances and you have to hunt some kinds of animals to keep the balance. For example in Germany – we have no wolfs and bears today and we have a problem with to much dears (bambis) and wild pigs and rabbits in parks in towns.And you can not shoot them in towns because its to dangerous. So its not good when natural enemies did dieing.

01:36 PM May 15 2009 |

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