Essay #1 Rough Draft

Essay #1 Rough Draft


Although farm animals raised commercially for meat have added generously to our options for quality foods, wild game is a superior choice because of its quality, its value, and its overall health benefits.
Modern agriculture, in its efforts to become more efficient and streamlined has generally turned to a monoculture style of raising meat producing animals. Huge feedlots with thousands of cows, gigantic warehouses filled with chickens in tight cages and barns filled with pigs that are so sensitive to airborne parasites that they have to be kept in purified air behind a sterile barrier from the outside world. Instead of a working relationship with farm animals, we have turned to this approach more and more as demand for cheap meat has gone up. Many animals have been bred to produce more and more meat while retaining less and less of their genetic components that allow them to survive on their own. While this has allowed modern people to keep up with supplies of food for the masses, the toll of such actions can be seen in the simple use of steroids and antibiotics that keep these animals alive and producing.

Wild game is free of any unnatural hormones, steroids or anything that nature doesn't intend. There are no confinement issues with wild game, a free life of roaming and foraging makes for a good relationship between animal and nature. There is a sense of responsibility and accomplishment that come with hunting for and providing your own food that can not be said for the common trip to the grocery store. There is a good amount of hardwork that goes into any hunt, but that work is paid for with meat, a direct relationship with nature and a strong pride in your food.