Animal abuse   

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Pays : France

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Dear classmates,

parents,

Creators of the future,



Together we must build the future. Our task is to make our world brighter than the one we know now. We have fought for equality between humans, fought against racism, sexism, slavery… But we have spent so much time fighting for ourselves that we have forgotten who we are: animals. Other animals have indeed very few rights that are not supervised enough and are commonly bent. Today, it is crucial to make a step in animal rights. The idea of animal rights may seem foreign, unnecessary to many people because throughout the world, animals are often abused and killed for a wide variety of socially acceptable reasons. But are these reasons really acceptable?

First of all, intensive animal farming, also called factory farming, should be banished. As its name suggests, intensive animal farming are factory-like farms that regroup hundreds of animals in a closed barn, leaving them a very small amount of space. These captivated animals suffer of disformations of ligaments and can die squashed for they have no space to grow or to run. For example, the regulation of intensive chicken farming authorises up to 22 chickens per square metre! In addition, animals live a very short amont of time in horrible conditions before being slaughtered and sold. They do not live a proper life. To illustrate my point, in France, chickens are supposed to live 6 years. In intensive farming, chickens live 6 weeks before being killed.

Furthermore, animals are fed with chemical products such as Progesterone and Tetostenone and Estradiol 17b and Zeranol to grow and fatten quicker, which is unhealthy for the animal and the consumer for it leads to Tumours, Prostate cancer, Thymus shrinkage and hyperplasia. Therefore, intensive animal farming must be entirely stopped, or at least given strict rules to improve the animal’s lives.
First of all, intensive animal farming, also called factory farming, should be banished. As its name suggests, intensive animal farming are factory-like farms that regroup hundreds of animals in a closed barn, leaving them a very small amount of space. These captivated animals suffer of disformations of ligaments and can die squashed for they have no space to grow or to run. For example, the regulation of intensive chicken farming authorises up to 22 chickens per square metre! In addition, animals live a very short amont of time in horrible conditions before being slaughtered and sold. They do not live a proper life. To illustrate my point, in France, chickens are supposed to live 6 years. In intensive farming, chickens live 6 weeks before being killed.

Furthermore, animals are fed with chemical products such as Progesterone and Tetostenone and Estradiol 17b and Zeranol to grow and fatten quicker, which is unhealthy for the animal and the consumer for it leads to Tumours, Prostate cancer, Thymus shrinkage and hyperplasia. Therefore, intensive animal farming must be entirely stopped, or at least given strict rules to improve the animal’s lives.

and can die squashed for they have no space to grow or to run. For example, the regulation of intensive chicken farming authorises up to 22 chickens per square metre! In addition, animals live a very short amont of time in horrible conditions before being slaughtered and sold. They do not live a proper life. To illustrate my point, in France, chickens are supposed to live 6 years. In intensive farming, chickens live 6 weeks before being killed.


Furthermore, animals are fed with chemical products such as Progesterone and Tetostenone and Estradiol 17b and Zeranol to grow and fatten quicker, which is unhealthy for the animal and the consumer for it leads to Tumours, Prostate cancer, Thymus shrinkage and hyperplasia. Therefore, intensive animal farming must be entirely stopped, or at least given strict rules to improve the animal’s lives.brands—Chanel, Gucci, Michael Kors, and dozens of others—had more than 5,600 items made from illegal wildlife products. Moreover, poaching can result to extinctions of rare species, that contribute to the earth’s balance. More than 100 species disappear per day because of poaching, such as, for example, West African Black Rhinoceros, Baiji White Dolphins and many others. If it continues, there will no longer rest any animals on earth! This demonstrates that poaching is extremely grave and must be put seriously to an end.




Thirdly, animal mistreating is a crime that must end. Animal mistreating includes cruelty towards pets. Abandon, beating and starvation happen much more often than we think. People should think about the consequences of having a pet before buying them, not after. Every year, more than 10 million of pets die from abuse in the US alone. Furthermore, over 115 million animals – mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, birds, among others – are killed in laboratory experiments worldwide for chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing every year. For example, many known brands such as Dior, Clarins or L’Oreal test their products on animals, contributing to animal laboratory suffering. This goes to show that animal cruelty should be vividly supervised and banned no matter the consequences.





Finally, the last problem is on habitat loss. This problem is identified as the main threat to animals for 85% of all species described in the IUCN's Red List as “threatened” suffer of habitat loss.

Deforestation is one of those problems. Destruction of forests and jungles destroys many of animal’s habitations, leaving such races like monkeys or birds homeless and more vulnerable. For example, according to the WFF, all monkeys living in Amazonia are menaced of extinction and in 2030 only 1% of Orang-Outan’s natural habitation will still be present. Global warming is also a major contributive to habitat loss, for it causes heat waves, forest fires, droughts and shrinking of ice caps. To illustrate my point, global warming is so grave that by 2100, scientists estimate that 50% of all the world's species could go extinct because of climate change. We must therefore do all our possible to


However, even if very grave events still take place, to every problem is a solution:

For animal intensive farming, preferring organic is a way to make animal’s lives better. Rules should be set to improve and limit intensive farming and encourage responsable producers that raise their animals in big plains and feed them with chemical product-absented food.

To help ban poaching, increasing the supervision of poachers and monitoring plains and oceans would considerably help to put an end to this barbaric habit. Creating or supporting organisations that protect animals is also a solution to our problem. Thanks to groups like the Black Mambas or Greenpeace, poaching has slowly but surely been put to a stop for certain species.

For animal cruelty, strict rules should be set to prohibit animal testing on cosmetics and create inspections to supervise how people treat their pets.

Lastly, for habitat loss, we can reconstruct plains and plant trees to restore animal’s natural habitat, and create more refugee zoos that can take in charge suffering animals confronted to habitat-loss.

However, even if very grave events still take place, to every problem is a solution:

For animal intensive farming, preferring organic is a way to make animal’s lives better. Rules should be set to improve and limit intensive farming and encourage responsable producers that raise their animals in big plains and feed them with chemical product-absented food.

To help ban poaching, increasing the supervision of poachers and monitoring plains and oceans would considerably help to put an end to this barbaric habit. Creating or supporting organisations that protect animals is also a solution to our problem. Thanks to groups like the Black Mambas or Greenpeace, poaching has slowly but surely been put to a stop for certain species.

For animal cruelty, strict rules should be set to prohibit animal testing on cosmetics and create inspections to supervise how people treat their pets.

Lastly, for habitat loss, we can reconstruct plains and plant trees to restore animal’s natural habitat, and create more refugee zoos that can take in charge suffering animals confronted to habitat-loss.

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Contexte NEOS : Nature et environnement