Hunting serves little good

What Wendy Mair (Readers' Forum, Feb. 2) doesn't consider is that hunting, while necessary for survival in times past, is unnecessary in our modern age of industrial farming and urban sprawl. Nowadays hunting serves little good. I personally love spending time in nature, but I don't have to hunt in order to do so.

Ultimately, modern hunting is akin to going into a forest, finding a fairly rare tree with a relatively slow reproductive rate, and cutting it down. You then take it home and chop it up as firewood to reassure others that you are not wasting the tree. Little did you realize that there was already firewood on sale at the local supermarket.

Dwight Sheldon Adams

North Salt Lake