Trapping (Is it cruelty?)

The human activity of animal trapping has two meanings. Firstly, it describes animal trapping to obtain their furs, which are then used for clothes and other articles, or sold / bartered to the fur trade. Secondly, trapping relates to the use of traps to catch animals for a variety of other purposes, most usually for food or pest control. Animal trapping is one of the first methods of hunting. Trapping is safer and less expensive for the hunter. .Trapping is regularly used for pest control. Federal authorities in the United States use trapping as the primary means to control predators that prey on endangered species. It is used to reduce numbers of predators in order to increase the populations of quarry species for hunting. It can also be used to control over-population or control diseases such as rabies, mange, and tularemia. Trapping is also used for research and relocation of wildlife.