Argumentative Essay : Animal Entertainment

Most people have come across animals used for entertainment purposes, whether it be in zoos or theme parks like Seaworld. Zoos and establishments like Seaworld attract millions of people year round, because what is more interesting than seeing an elephant, or an orca whale up close? In our society, is has become common for the public to travel to these types of places. They are seen as the perfect place to vacation for a day, or to just spend time with family. Children especially love to see exotic animals in person, rather than just reading about them, or watching shows about them. People do not often think that the animals they see in captivity are abused, or have low standards of living. However, the truth is that the lives animals have

Animal Research is topic that is highly debated by several people, especially those in the medical and the vet world. Why is this such a debatable topic to individuals? Many people consider animal research to cruel and inhumane, and others believe that it is for the greater good to help find cures for humans. Ron Karpati, a former pediatrician and who is now a medical researcher, agrees that animal research is used for the greater good even though it inflicts pain on animals. Karpati wrote an article called, “ I am the Enemy,” and in this article he states several points that prove his belief on animal research.

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.

Health, benefit, well-being, progress, care, profit, thriving, all words that are synonyms to welfare. Animal welfare has been an agricultural issue for several decades. Animal welfare refers to the physical, emotional, and mental state an animal is in. There are several organization in the United States along with other corporations around the world that have the same mission; to promote animal welfare. This issue has a deep-rooted history, various legislative acts being voted on and passed, as well as many effects from these organizations, and legislative bills.

I wanted to let everyone know that the dogs in #15 bit again, this time they bit me. It happened outside the complex, but it was very aggressive and unprovoked. I notified animal control, and after 4 calls and a full day waiting I met with our animal control officer. He informed me that 10 minutes after my original call he made contact with #15 and they were cited for another animal control issue. He will note the aggressive behavior and the bite case and will be fully available if it happens again.

On the contrary, animal research plays a crucial role in almost every medical breakthrough within the last ten years, and that is why it is used so frequently. Humans share ninety-five percent of genes with mice, so mice are useful models. Animals and humans are similar in general with the same organ systems, same diseases suffered from, such as cancer, and the same medicines used to heal us, such as antibiotics. Due to research on animals, cancer survival rate has increased, Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies were created, and AIDS is less threatening. Also, Penicillin tested on mice helped find the antibiotics’ infection-fighting qualities, and asthma inhalers were created using animals (About Us 1). Researchers believe animal medical

Your views on circuses are different than the views of the animals. They see torture, abuse, separation from family etc. If we continue the path we are taking with the animal abuse the endangered species could get worse and worse and later maybe be gone. Circus owners should ban animal performances in circuses.

Lions, tigers and elephants don't perform tricks because they like to jump through hoops of fire. They are trained to perform these tricks. Often that training can involve positive enforcement through rewards, but those who are against animals in circuses allege that many circuses abuse their animals. In 2009, Ringling Brothers, a well-known circus, went to trial to defend themselves against a charge of animal abuse. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/02/ringling-bros-c.html

Animal rights are a very controversial topic. Some support the industry and buy products with their fur or products that are tests on animals. While others, are 100% against it and make sure the products they are buying are not tested on animals and if they are buying fur they double check to make sure it is fo-fur. I simply think that everyone should have the decency to treat animals with kindness and respect, and not make them suffer in any way. Animals deserve to be left alone and living in their natural state of life, without harm, abuse or exploitation. It has been shown that animals are capable of feeling pain, hunger, thirst, loneliness, and kinship. Fur belongs to its original owner and I am not a fan of fo-fur I think it looks unnatural

Did you know that animals have the right to be protected by the Animal Welfare Act but when animals are not performing they are housed in small traveling crates (“11 Facts About Circus”, 2015)? Animals being used in circuses are constantly traveling, making them stuck in a confined area. This kind of confinement has led to harmful psychological effects (“11 Facts About Circus”, 2015) on these animals. Animals have been in used in circuses since about the 1800’s. But, there has been controversy and many arguments over the treatment of the animals. Especially when it comes to them being used in entertainment. In this paper, I will present alternative position on the topic of animals used and their treatment in circuses.

Even though circus protestors have been arounds for years, one event that was striking to everyone was, in 2009 whistleblower Sam Haddock was shared photos of how a baby elephant was trained with the circus. What these photos showed were acts of animal abuse; using sharp metal tools to get them to do poses and tying them up their limbs and trunks. In an article written by Compassion Works International it stats, “The circus lied to us form the time we were small, causing us to think that whipping tigers or making elephants stand on their heads is “normal”, when those activities are anything but normal” (Compassion Works International). Protestors do not understand why they think doing this to animals is okay, causing animals pain and discomfort is not a good thing. The audience does not see what it’s like behind the scenes, that is why there is protests going on across the world so that the world can get educated on what is really going on.

When people think of animal abuse, they often think of the video they saw where somebody harms a dog, cat… In fact, animal abuse comes in many forms. Animal abuse includes eating the animal, circus animal, producing cosmetic from inside the animal. We eat meat, that’s the fact. However, the more the technology grows, the more we seem to kill the animal in such a violent ways that people always say: “If you let all the kids go to the slaughter-house, we will have a whole vegetarian generation.” ( Wu Ji Yiang). Circus or aquariums are also another form of animal abuse. We go there and see all types of animals doing tricks, we have fun; but to train the animals to do that, they’d have to go through a stage where they are left starving. Trainers use whips, muzzles, tight collars, electric prods,

Prostate cancer is linked to dairy in many studies, including Harvard’s Physician's Health with more than 20,000 male physicians. In this study, those who consumed over two servings of dairy a day had a 34% increased chance of developing this cancer than those who had little to none.

Around twenty-six million animals are used for scientific research every year in the United States alone. The animals are used solely for medical treatments, determining the toxicity of medications, checking the safety of products destined for human use, and many other biomedical, commercial, and healthcare uses. Researchers estimate animals have been used as test subjects since 500 B.C. According to Humane Society International, animal subjects are commonly forced fed, forced inhalation of chemicals, deprived of food and water, burned, and possibly killed. We as a nation need to begin a movement to stop testing products on defenseless animals (PETA).

Have you ever seen a tiger jump through hoops in the wild, or do hard tricks because they want to? I didn't think so that's because they don’t want to. Animals are forced to learn these tricks by using a shock collar, whips, electric prods, etc. Puppy's are being kept in a puppy mill, animals are being neglected and abused.