Throughout human history, meat has been an important source of food, and for most of that time, hunting was the only way to get it. Now, most of our meat is farmed, but in some places, like Alaska, the northernmost state of the US, people still hunt for food. They shoot ptarmigan (a type of bird), duck and caribou (a kind of big deer). In rural areas, hunting is as common as going to work. Elsewhere, in some African countries for example, international tourists pay thousands of pounds to hunt animals for fun. In the UK, people enjoy shooting birds and rabbits. In fact, shooting is so popular that a large industry has built up around it, and lots of people rely on it for their livelihoods. However, when there’s…
