Animal Cruelty Persuasive Speech

A Beagle becomes a chain smoker in a medical lab. He smokes through a machine linked to his wind pipe by a tube. This experiment is designed to study the connection between smoking and lung disease.

Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? How would your views change if our cooks got treated the same way cattle and poultry do? How would you feel about them being beaten and brought to their knees just to be detained to know how to cook todays specials? You might think that the food industry has no issues and no faults behind their tasty food, but when you open up the meat curtain, there is a different kind of world out there that is cruel and inhumane. In Robert Kenner’s 2008 film, Food, Inc., He shows the conditions that cows, chickens, and pigs have to live in. The dark and closeted homes in which the animals are closely compacted together and eating, sleeping, and walking in their own manure. As a person who would consider themselves an animal rights activist, most people would agree that the food industry treats their animals like products instead of living things.

Animal Cruelty is a problem that many ignore. People are oblivious to these animals and the negligence their owners show. Animal cruelty is an underlying problem in today’s society, and the only way to counteract these problems, is for this generation to do something about it.

1. ATTENTION GETTER: Millions of animals are abused each year. Over a million of these animals are abused or killed just due to the involvement with domestic violence. Despite animal cruelty being a felony which can result in jail time for over 15 years and 500,000 dollars in fines, it is still an issue which occurs on a daily basis across the United States. It is important for these animals to not go unnoticed, which can be achieved if society became more enlightened and educated on the topic of animal cruelty. (Pacelle, 2011).

Attention Getter: Imagine living in a space about a third the size of this room. You also share this space with 3 other people. This is what animals deal with when living in zoos and aquariums.

One in fifty-six kids are abused and sixty-one percent of children are forgotten about (Dreyfus). Do you not like the ASPCA animal abuse commercial well there are kids out there just like those dogs and cats that you see in the commercial. There are parents out there that have kids at a young age and don’t take care of them. They neglect them and abuse them if they are throwing a fit or at older ages not listening to the parents. Or the parent is addicted to drugs or they are an alcoholic. I have learned that there a lot of people think that there should be classes that parents should take. The information that I have found has helped me even more believe that there should be classes for the parents. Personally I have some cousins that their

Specific Purpose: I want to educate my audience on the various animal rights organizations and what they stand for.

Think about how we will look back on our cruel forms of entertainment in the future. Will we be proud of the way we treated these great animals, with abuse as neglect? Today we turn our heads away from reality and what happens behind the scenes of animal entertainment. However, we can’t turn our heads forever. Around the world, there is so much more to animal entertainment than what meets the eye. These animals have been torn away from their beautiful, natural homes and brought to a prison of concrete. In these prisons, they are beaten, starved and tortured all for our money and entertainment. These animals lives should not be taken from them for us. Our money and happiness should not be worth these animal’s lives. Circus, theme park and zoo animals all suffer from aggression towards trainers, mental disabilities and physical injuries. These animals should not have to suffer any longer.

“Unnecessary” background checks. (These are done in order to ensure the safety of the animal. The adoptee is essentially another life that is being put into your care and as the owner you must keep them safe.)

Over 56 billion animals, not even including fish or sea creatures, are killed by humans a year. Over 10 billion of these animals are raised in harmful conditions to later end up slaughtered. For some reason, people think that the situation changes when it comes to animals, but it doesn’t. Yes, meat and dairy are pretty important for our health. Not only are we killing this many animals, but most don’t even die peacefully. With this, animals should at least be able to have a quick death if they are being killed to feed us rather than tortured.

Imagine, one day you are a baby orca whale, when you are separated from your family by humans who were looking for sick and lost animals. You then live the rest of your life away from the ocean and your family at Sea World, where you die a much younger age, watched by many people in a large tank. Animal rights seemed like a subject that I would like to look into because it would help me understand more about laws and how animals are treated now and how they were treated before animal rights. I believe that we should let these animal rights tell us how we should treat animals, so I ask you to ask yourself this question: How should we as civilians support animal rights? I have done some research, and I have found some solutions for those who don’t believe in animal rights, but I hope that I can change your mind.

First and foremost, I will make sure my self-presentation is on par since appearance is everything and I will speak about my topic by stating the source of my knowledge like my experience or have research. I will also express the importance of being aware of not abusing or neglecting animals even our own pets. They have sentimental value in our lives even if it’s just our pets. Even though they can’t speak we have to be their voice and speak up for what is right. Animal abuse and neglect is a controversial issue that many of us witness in our everyday lives. However, we cannot stop the crime we see but we can take a stand against it and be the voice that they need. As I educate you on the knowledge that was bestowed upon me and researching this topic, please take into consideration of the thoughts and importance of preventing animal abuse and neglect.

A very good morning to my English teacher, Mr Shatish and also to my fellow classmates. I would like to start my speech with a back-story on my experience with two little mongrels whom we named Prince and Princess. One night late last year, we heard yelps coming from an abandoned park near my house. We initially thought the cries were coming from the bushes near the drain, but there weren’t any puppies to be found. A few hours had passed, the cries got louder and more desperate.

Most of you probably have a pet of your own. Maybe a dog named Max or a cat named Oliver. Could you imagine seeing them in terrible pain? I honestly don't think there will be one student in this class that would volunteer to let their own pet be tortured for any reason. Am I wrong?

Many companies, like McDonalds, lie about what actually goes on at their farms. “Free range” “Cruelty free” “Killed in a humane way” Those are just some the things that consumers are told and believe everyday. Saying thank you to the animal before munching on its flesh and bones doesn’t excuse what happens to them. The abuse and torture animals go through at factory farms isn’t fair and needs to be stopped immediately.