Opinion Piece
Unfortunately, animal abused is a pretty big issue nowadays. We do not have to go so far, because we can see animal abusing on the streets or in the neighborhood. People can be really unresposible with animals because they think it is so easy to take care of them. However, if we do not take care of our pet on the right way, it can be animal abuse easilily. For instance, we cannot just leave them in the cage, or not govong them enough food and water. In my point of view, this is not even the worst animal abuse. While I was writing my paper for this class, I was looking for different resources about animal testing and I found some sad websites with pictures.
I did not want believe what I saw. I have never thought animal testing can be this bad. I saw pictures of rabbits with swollen eyes or with cut ears. I also saw pictures of cats and rats what made me feel so bad. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund (http://aldf.org/resources/when-you-witness-animal-cruelty/animal-testing-and-the-law/) around 100 million animals die during tetsing every year. Fortunately, there some laws what can protect these animals rights. For example, AWA (Animal Welfare Act), Public Health Service and other organizations. However, this does not mean that the animals are safe. Unfortunately, there are not enough inspector to properly inspect research facilities and msot of the animalst are not legally protected. Legal test are included burning, poisining, starving, forced smoking, blingindg and other horrible things without using a painkiller. On the other hand, there are some improvement because USA is one of the country in the World where laboratory testing on chimpanzee is banned. Moreover, lot of other counrties stop using animals for cosmetics tetsing.
In my opinion, animals abuse is a crime. It is a horrible idea to hurt animals. I know people are stressful nowadays and get angry but hurting animals is not a solution. People think it is not a big deal if they kick a dog or a cat or buy a pet and just put on a lease in the backyard. We have to understand that they have feelings too. They get hurt, they feel happy or sad. We should take care of pets, and give them a chance for a good life. Maybe they are going to be a part of our life for a little bit, but for them we are their whole life. I know lot of people think that to think like this is crazy. They think animals are just animals and they are on this planet to eat them to torture them and do whatever we want with them. However, I do not think like this. We should not use them to test our cosmetics on them. We should not test our fancy shampoo or our fancy mascara on rabbits. I do not know how people feel, if there would be a stronger and bigger creature and it would use us to test different things on us and it would hurt. I am pretty sure we wouldn't really enjoy it. We should find a way to test our cosmetics without animals. We should leave them live their peacful life and just use them as we need. Of course we are going to eat meat. I am not talking about let's be vegetarian. That's totally fine to eat animals, we need protein. But to torture animals is totally not fine. According to the reason.com website lot of people say that animals do not have rights because they are not humans so they are not equal with us. But of course they are not equal with us but if there is a stupid person then we are going to kill him or torture him?
As a conclusion, I think we should educate people more about animal abuse because lot of us do not even know what is going on. People should talk more about it in schools so kids can actually understand it. People should definitely avoid products from companies that test on animals. Since I saw pictures of rabbits how they test mascaras and other cosmetics, I always check the product before I buy it. I will never buy a product what was tested on animals. Animals should be protected by stronger law all over the World.
I did not want believe what I saw. I have never thought animal testing can be this bad. I saw pictures of rabbits with swollen eyes or with cut ears. I also saw pictures of cats and rats what made me feel so bad. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund (http://aldf.org/resources/when-you-witness-animal-cruelty/animal-testing-and-the-law/) around 100 million animals die during tetsing every year. Fortunately, there some laws what can protect these animals rights. For example, AWA (Animal Welfare Act), Public Health Service and other organizations. However, this does not mean that the animals are safe. Unfortunately, there are not enough inspector to properly inspect research facilities and msot of the animalst are not legally protected. Legal test are included burning, poisining, starving, forced smoking, blingindg and other horrible things without using a painkiller. On the other hand, there are some improvement because USA is one of the country in the World where laboratory testing on chimpanzee is banned. Moreover, lot of other counrties stop using animals for cosmetics tetsing.
In my opinion, animals abuse is a crime. It is a horrible idea to hurt animals. I know people are stressful nowadays and get angry but hurting animals is not a solution. People think it is not a big deal if they kick a dog or a cat or buy a pet and just put on a lease in the backyard. We have to understand that they have feelings too. They get hurt, they feel happy or sad. We should take care of pets, and give them a chance for a good life. Maybe they are going to be a part of our life for a little bit, but for them we are their whole life. I know lot of people think that to think like this is crazy. They think animals are just animals and they are on this planet to eat them to torture them and do whatever we want with them. However, I do not think like this. We should not use them to test our cosmetics on them. We should not test our fancy shampoo or our fancy mascara on rabbits. I do not know how people feel, if there would be a stronger and bigger creature and it would use us to test different things on us and it would hurt. I am pretty sure we wouldn't really enjoy it. We should find a way to test our cosmetics without animals. We should leave them live their peacful life and just use them as we need. Of course we are going to eat meat. I am not talking about let's be vegetarian. That's totally fine to eat animals, we need protein. But to torture animals is totally not fine. According to the reason.com website lot of people say that animals do not have rights because they are not humans so they are not equal with us. But of course they are not equal with us but if there is a stupid person then we are going to kill him or torture him?
As a conclusion, I think we should educate people more about animal abuse because lot of us do not even know what is going on. People should talk more about it in schools so kids can actually understand it. People should definitely avoid products from companies that test on animals. Since I saw pictures of rabbits how they test mascaras and other cosmetics, I always check the product before I buy it. I will never buy a product what was tested on animals. Animals should be protected by stronger law all over the World.