Do animals have rights?
This is one of the controversial topics today in the
world, people are still arguing about it. Some people might say that animals
have no rights because they do not have human thought. They feel no pain, have
no thoughts, desires, emotions or interests. Man is the soul of the
universe therefore animals do not deserve rights. Some people might say that animals
should be treated the same like humans. Although they cannot speak and not
smarter as human but they are living too. Animals are the creation of God not
only human, therefore human should give them basic rights. They have rights
just as we have rights.
So what are
animal rights when we talk about? Animal rights are the belief that animals
deserve rights to life, liberty and happiness. Animals rights is not about
putting animals above humans, or giving animals the same right as humans but
they should be treated in an humane way instead of abusing them. Protection of
animal rights supporters who believe that animals are not to be used as our
food, clothing, entertainment, experiment or some other attempts, they should
also be of concaern to human attention and loves no matter they are not lovable
or useless.
For my opinion, animals have
rights and they deserve to be treated in humane way. Why animals have rights? This
is because they live and breathe like us. They may not be like us, but they can
feel pain and fear and all those emotions like us. Some people might say that
animals have no rights, they do not deserved it because they have no human
thought and no sense of morality so they do not need moral rights too. We
always think that man is the soul of the universe, just because we are smarter
than animals so we do not have to give them our respect and treat them in humane
way. In fact, every single life on earth is the creation of God, there is no
one can judge who is deserve to live or die.
Although animals not able to
speak, they not able to do what we do but they can still feel pain. Can you
imagine yourself as an animal, you couldn’t speak and the butcher is going to
put down on you but you’re helpless, no matter how you screaming there is no
one comes to rescue you. You will never know how they feel when they are
waiting to be butchered. Humans are the real monster, don’t you agree? Humans
are cruel and selfish, if we realize that the person or thing is benefit to us
then we will try to get it by fair means or foul.
As we know, dog meat has been
eaten in China for thousands years. According to Korea Animal Rights Advocates (2013),
dog meat is a traditional medicine which supposed to boost energy and male
virility. Dog stew is also popular as a way of warming blood especially in
China’s cold North. There is countless thousands of dogs are inhumanely caged,
beaten, tortured, killed and butchered everyday, just to feed the Chinese
demand for dog meat. Eating dog meats is common in China, you can easily found
it on any restaurant. Also, you can get the video easily from Youtube about how
the dogs in China. Simply put, the dogs in China are treated in inhumane way
and they have no rights. Dog meats in China have already become one of the
local food and eating dog meats are one of the culture in China. In China, the
people even celebrate Chinese Dog Meat Festival. This is a cruelty event in
Guangxi, and around 10,000 dogs are due to slaughtered. According to Global
Voices (2013), the new agency Xinhua said that eating dog meat is a eating
culture in the society, therefore it is not illegal and has nothing to do with
morality.
Animals been treated in inhumane way is happening every day, not only in China. According to World Wide Fund For Nature (N/D), every year, up to 73 millions of sharks are killed to meet our tremendous demand of shark fin soup, as popular Chinese delicacy. Shark fin soup is cruel! They fins are often sliced off while the sharks are still alive, then their bodies are thrown back into the water as the sharks bear a painful death from suffocation, blood loss, or predation by other species. Shark fin soup is one of the luxury food, some people believe that shark fin soup has high in nutritional value yet it doesn’t even have any real nutritional value. In fact, shark fin contained some diseases such as dementia, Lou Gehrig’s disease and other degenerative brain diseases, (Chinese Network TV, 2012). Based on the early studies, eating shark fins have risk of mercury poisoning.
Man’s relation with animals is very old. Animals are not our goods to satisfy our desire and achieve highest monetary profits yet they are our friends and neighbors. Some people might say that only humans understand rights so only humans can have rights. Some people also said that they are animals, they feel no pain or do not have any emotional. This is very ridicules. Children cannot understand rights, yet we do not deny them rights. Therefore we should not hold back from giving rights to animals because they not smarter as human or not same as human. There are a lot of issues showed that animals can feel pain although they not able to speak. We as a human should defend their rights because we are their voices. Animals do not judge anyone but we human judge everyone. Animals do not care whether you are pretty or ugly, rich or poor, bad or good, they treat us equally but we human judge a person from a quick look If man is the soul of the universe then we must not treated animals in inhumane way. We have human thought; we know what things right and wrong. We should not hurt them badly. We can even always see there are thousands of cats and dogs injured or killed in road traffic accidents each year yet there is no laws to punish those irresponsible drivers. This is a very serious ethic problem in society nowadays. The world could be better than yesterday when we cooperate to manage it in a harmonious atmosphere. Please do give animals’ basic rights and treat them in humane way. We all dream the same dream about living. Let’s All Live It And Don’t Eat Animals.
Animals been treated in inhumane way is happening every day, not only in China. According to World Wide Fund For Nature (N/D), every year, up to 73 millions of sharks are killed to meet our tremendous demand of shark fin soup, as popular Chinese delicacy. Shark fin soup is cruel! They fins are often sliced off while the sharks are still alive, then their bodies are thrown back into the water as the sharks bear a painful death from suffocation, blood loss, or predation by other species. Shark fin soup is one of the luxury food, some people believe that shark fin soup has high in nutritional value yet it doesn’t even have any real nutritional value. In fact, shark fin contained some diseases such as dementia, Lou Gehrig’s disease and other degenerative brain diseases, (Chinese Network TV, 2012). Based on the early studies, eating shark fins have risk of mercury poisoning.
Man’s relation with animals is very old. Animals are not our goods to satisfy our desire and achieve highest monetary profits yet they are our friends and neighbors. Some people might say that only humans understand rights so only humans can have rights. Some people also said that they are animals, they feel no pain or do not have any emotional. This is very ridicules. Children cannot understand rights, yet we do not deny them rights. Therefore we should not hold back from giving rights to animals because they not smarter as human or not same as human. There are a lot of issues showed that animals can feel pain although they not able to speak. We as a human should defend their rights because we are their voices. Animals do not judge anyone but we human judge everyone. Animals do not care whether you are pretty or ugly, rich or poor, bad or good, they treat us equally but we human judge a person from a quick look If man is the soul of the universe then we must not treated animals in inhumane way. We have human thought; we know what things right and wrong. We should not hurt them badly. We can even always see there are thousands of cats and dogs injured or killed in road traffic accidents each year yet there is no laws to punish those irresponsible drivers. This is a very serious ethic problem in society nowadays. The world could be better than yesterday when we cooperate to manage it in a harmonious atmosphere. Please do give animals’ basic rights and treat them in humane way. We all dream the same dream about living. Let’s All Live It And Don’t Eat Animals.
References:
N/A, 2013. China’s Animal Rights Law Bans Dog and Cat Eating. [online]viewed
on: 3/9/2013, Available from: http://animalrightskorea.org/dog-related-news/chinas-animal-rights-law-bans-dog-and-cat-eating.html
Owen, 2013. Chinese Social Web Slams Local Dog Meat Festival. [online]viewed
on: 3/9/2013, Available from: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/25/chinese-social-web-slams-local-dog-meat-festival/
N/A, 2012. Shark fin will be the risk of mercury poisoning. [online]viewed on:
4/9/2013, Available from: http://jiankang.cntv.cn/20120911/100053.shtml
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