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Animal Rights
Cynthia
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Academic Reading &Writing
Yale
April 6, 2012
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Millions of years ago, both human beings animals were evolved from cells.
Now, the advanced technology makes humans powerful, while animals began to be
treated unfairly and great numbers of animals get killed unreasonable. How can
people benefit themselves from making animals suffering? Animal rights is a idea that
idealistic campaigners fight for protecting animals both on physical and psychology,
and it involves in the problems including animal abuse, luxury goods made from
animals and animal captivity.
Animals have the right to enjoy peaceful lives and not to be abused. However,
there are many grim factories, laboratories and farms forcing animals to put fixtures
into the bodies of animals or eat chemical medicine. Bear bile is a kind of expensive
medicine. Zhao (2006) revealed that the bile-extraction technology, which was used in
China years ago, made bears felt immensely pain because of the surgically-implanted
metal tubes. According to Lam (2003), bears would die after less than four extractions,
and the owners also killed the some young bears in order to get better bile. Such
things also happen during animal experiments. People do dreadful things in the name
of science without considering the feelings of animals.
Animals’ lives are harmed because of animal luxury goods. Many animals are
killed to be made into clothes and ornaments. Erickson (1992) reported that 200 to 400
mink coats can be sold by Connecting World Trade each year. It is bad news for animals
that things like fur clothes, shark fin and ivory are used to show the social status and
satisfy vanity. Windrow (2010) claimed that more than 70 million sharks were killed a
year, which was wasteful and unsustainable. Usually, fishermen only cut the shark fin
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off, and then throw the sharks back to sea, but sharks without fin can only wait to die
in the sea. Lives on the earth should be respected and no one has rights to attack other
lives.
Freedom is also one of the animal rights that cannot be ignored. People use the
prison as a tool of punishment. However, lots of animals are caged in zoos, farms and
circuses just to satisfy the amusement of people. According to Baragona (2012), hens
in United States big facilities are kept in tiny cages which have little room to move.
Animals in zoos or circus also face a similar problem that the life in cages makes
animals lose freedom and the ability to live outside. The animal rights movement is
fighting for giving freedom back to animals which are suffering from captivity.
In conclusion, animal rights should be protected by everyone. Animals can
have better lives if humans consider more about the issues on abusing animal, luxury
goods made from animals and animal captivity. With the effect of protecting animal
rights, every life will live equally on the earth.

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