When I study in this English class I have a lot of harvest, one of it is I found an very interesting book called Water For Elephant. Through this book I understood many things about love. For example， human's true love, people and animals love. This project I write about animal's right because in this book there are many word-painting arouse my feeling.
The novel water for elephant by Sara Gruen illustrates a circus boss torturing a poor elephant. Essentially, what they did shows is the abuse of animals in the circus. I highlight an important sentence it reflect the boss abuse animals in this novel. "August smarks her from behind, and Rosie hurries a few steps forward. When August coaches up, he whacks her again, this time hard enough that she raises her trunk, bellows, and scampers sideways. August lets loose a long string of curses and runs up beside her, swinging the bull hook and driving the pick and into her shoulder"(P140). These sentences describe how the people work in circus abuse animal. In the contemporary society, millions of mice, rabbits, monkeys, cats, dogs and other animals are locked inside cold cages in laboratories, circus and zoos across the country. We have been so used to sacrifice animals' lives to meet our need. I strongly disagree because I think all lives are equal, and it is not right way to say that lives are more valuable than theirs. We should treat them like our own kind, and we should never sacrifice their lives to improve ours. In my opinion, it is wrong to use animals for science experiments, and it is also wrong to put them in circus or zoos for people to watch. Moreover, we need to protect our environment and watch out for extinct species.
There are many animals sacrifice in the meaningless experiment. I used to read an article essay it is said: “Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country. They languish in pain, ache with loneliness and long to roam free and use their minds." This quote means not only some common animals used by experiments, but also many unusual animals too. And then the detailed digital is more than 100 million animals are dying per year for chemical, drug, food and cosmetic experiments. In order to test cosmetics, household supplies, classroom biology experiments, and other products. Most of these tests are even required by law and these experiments always come out the wrong conclusions so that those animals become innocent victims. Like the paragraph in water for elephant "Pete stands with his arms slack at his sides, his sleeves rolled up past his elbows, still holding the bloody knife. He watches the horse until it dies and then raises his face to me." (P140) This passage performance of how human cruelty to animals and when human find these animals already lost the useful to their value they will cruel to the animals. In my opinion, every life is equal in this world, why those human treat animals like that way? This behavior is against humanitarian, everything in this world has its own meaning, and it is a false statement which is because human is stronger than animals so the animals can be our experimental articles.
It is easy to see a circus perform in some developed counties and more and more animals are coming to zoos. When I read web news it is said: “Electric shock, whips, baseball bats and pipes are also among the methods used to force the animals to cooperate in training. Some animals are kept muzzled to subdue them and discourage them from defending themselves if they feel threatened. Some animals are drugged to make them manageable and some have their teeth removed. Some bears have had their paws burned to force them to stand on their hind legs." People find much amusement in those places; did we know after finish the shows the animals will suffer to the cruel training again? Like the novel, when the circus' show finishes, people leave the performance venue as soon as possible. They just satisfy themselves and nobody care about the animals which bought happiness to them just now. And the boss August use a sharp edge tool to training Rosie, the tool scathes Rosie many times. In real life, many managers take a sleeping injection to tigers, lions and other bigger animals’ make they seemed like clever. In fact people through the rude way only make animals lags in response and their healthy will become worse. If we put into animals' shoes. We use our health, freedom even lives only for others for fun, who would think that is fun anymore?
With the people circle's progress, animals' and people's live environment become worse and worse. People can use some advanced technologies to remedy our living environment, but animals cannot do the same thing. "If extinction is a natural process, why should we make an effort to save endangered species because we can no longer attribute the accelerating extinction of plants and animals to natural causes? Today most species of plants and animals become extinct because of habitat destruction (loss of living space to development or pollution), introduction of non-native organisms, and direct killing (over-harvesting, poisoning)". This essay means there are many kinds of precious animals missed all over the world, and many rare animals are vanishing. Animals, plans and people compose the biological chain. All these three components are equally important, and each one is indispensable. If our globe lack of one from the biologic chain, humans and plants will suffer. These shows all the lives are equality and each of them is part of the earth. There several major threats to endangered animals. The first and worse one is hunting. For example, European immigrants killed all the buffalo in North America and put them into endangered species category. Second, animals’ habitats are invaded by human constructions like buildings and roads. Third, the invasion by foreign species does a good job on destroying the ecosystem. When a new species is introduced to an ecosystem, it may mess up its natural order. Fourth, factories emit pollutions which contaminates environment and kills animals too.
We all have compassion as human, and we all don't want to watch animals suffer. Imagine that if you were put into an experiment cage and don't what is waiting for you; imagine that there is a billhook in your nose, and you are experiencing a consistent pain; imagine your home are taken away and you have nowhere to go. I am strongly opposed to people use animals to do experiments and we close them to cages in the zoos just for human have fun. Moreover, animals' lives and ours both are important parts of the earth. So we should treat animals' lives like ourselves. Each of us can help to save animals' life from suffering and death. When we eat meat, wear leather, and go to circuses and zoo, we need to think the pain and suffering which animals have endured. Animals are not out to abuse in any way.
Work Cited
Harris, Robbort. Animal Rights Uncompromised: Zoos. 15 June 2009. Web. 20 Apr. 2009. http://www.peta.org/about/why-peta/zoos.aspx
Smith, Jason. Animals Used for Experimentation. 12, July 2008. Web. 13 Apr. 2008.
http://www.starbreezes.com/11/circusabuse.html
Frank J. Mazzotti. The Value of Endangered Species: the Importance of Conserving Biological Diversity. 09, June 2011. Web. 17 June 2011. http://edis.ifas.Ufl.edu/uw
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