POV
Deer Avenger Pals-
North Harford H.S
10/22/2012
We are the Deer Avenger Pals. We are here to speak
for the deer, since we are animal
rights activists. We are quite important to this
deer overpopulation issue because we love
deer and don't want to see them all killed. We know
what's best for the deer, trust us.
This deer overpopulation issue affects us greatly
because people automatically want to
resort to killing them, which is not necessarily the
best solution to this problem. The
definition of animal rights (which is what we are
most concerned about) is defined as this:
Rights believed to belong to animals to live free
from use in medical research, hunting, and
other services to humans (google.com ). People need
to keep in mind that animals cannot be
completely controlled by humans. We believe the best
way to help make this less of an issue
is by working with the deer rather than against
them, so some methods we could use are
fencing to keep the deer somewhat contained. Another
method other than killing would be
birth control vaccines. This would reduce mating in
deer, so there wouldn't be so many in
the upcoming generation. "A typical method involves
sedating the deer with a dart, then
injecting a contraceptive."
(http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/suburbs/ )
Other stakeholder groups' solutions, such
as the hunter group, believe the best solution would
be to kill the poor deer in order to
decrease the population. While there would
technically be less deer for the moment, simply
killing random deer will not prevent the population
from returning to its original numbers
later on. Further thinking could create even more
new ideas that would have nothing to do
with harming any creatures. We just need to put our
heads together. If you need further
convincing on the subject of animal/deer rights,
just watch Bambi.
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