To the Editor: I strongly feel that people should not hunt animals as a sport or to make fur coats. Hunting should be banned forever! The animals that are killed for fun are living creatures and don’t deserve to die for this reason! Also, some of these animals can be useful to us. We need them to live. A lot of animals can be eaten. Eating the animals would be a legitimate reason for them to be sacrificed. In addition, the animals used for food are not dying for people to have fun killing them. Not only is killing animals for fun bad, but some people like to wear the dead animal’s fur on their back. This is mean and unnecessary! If people like the look of the animal fur, they can buy fake fur! I do not believe that living things need to die so we can wear them. We have many other materials to use in the production of our clothing. The reason for keeping these animals alive is so we have food, domesticated animals to use, and some wildlife in our environment. One of the most pointless things I have ever heard of is the “Bear Hunt.” Hunters say that there are too many bears and we need to get rid of them. They also say that they hurt and bother people. Well, my opinion is that since we took their homes, we should at least let them live in the uninhabited woods. When people say the bears come out of the woods and hurt us for no reason, it is not entirely true. Most of the time when bears hurt people, it is because we do something to bother them. As well as hurting us, hunters complain that the bears eat our garbage and leave it up to us to clean it. I do not think it is worth killing something so we don’t have to pick up a little garbage once in a while. If this is an ongoing problem for you, just get a special garbage can. These trash cans are made so bears cannot open them. When people think there are too many of a species of animal such as bears or deer, they should try to think about what these animals thought when we settled into their shelters and homes. In conclusion, the animals in our environment should not be killed for fun or for fur clothing. They deserve to live as much as we do. This is why hunting should be forbidden! Lauren Coleman