” Well, our ancestors also lived in caves and cooked meals over open fires, if at all. Furthermore, today we have the convenience of grocery stores and butchers that our ancient relatives lacked. Adding up all the costs of hunting licenses, guns and other hunting gear, it's actually cheaper to buy meat in a store, which rules out the argument that it saves the hunter money. Other common arguments are that hunting controls and maintains animal populations. Well, contrary to what hunters may think, hunting has nothing to do with the control or conservation of animals. In fact, a fraction of the wild animal population is specifically intended to be killed. For this reason, hunting actually causes overpopulation and ecological disturbances. While hunters believe they control the populations of the animals they kill, natural predators, wolves, bears and mountain lions, are the true managers of the ecosystem, if they are not..