Beaver traps had metal jaws that snapped shut on a beaver's leg. Since the trap was set underwater, the beaver died by drowning. Should a practice like this be permitted today? Should it have been permitted in the 1830's? *Read more at the Oregon History Project *Watch a video lecture for more details (parts 1 & 3 are also interesting) | |
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Mayyadah
9/17/2013 02:44:04 pm
I don't think beaver trapping should be permitted today because it is not humane. I also don't think that it should have been permitted in the 1830's because it almost made the beavers become extinct just to sell the fur in the fur market and to make beaver hats out of it. People sold the beaver hats just because they thought it was fashionable but I do not think that is fair to the animals. So I think that beaver trapping should never again be permitted.
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Arcadia
1/10/2014 04:10:33 am
In the1830s beaver trapping was permitted because the people didn't see anything wrong with it. Nothing was hurting them at the moment and it was a way to make a living. it was a fad, and people supported it, of course. I think that if the people could have possibly seen that the beavers would become an endangered species they still would have trapped, saying that it was meant to be. They may have a point there, because they had no other ways to trap, and going against a popular opinion was unheard of. Today it is slightly more acceptable but still met with negativity. I think that today trapping beaver like that isn't acceptable because it isn't humane, as Mayyadah said, and many people today are animal rights activists. Such people would hold demonstrations against it and write letters to congressmen to oppose it, and things would be changed. This would not happen in the 1830s because people wouldn't dare do anything different than what everyone else did as I said before. I think that beaver trapping should be permitted if people could find a less destructive and more humane way to do it than trappers did in the 1830s.
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