Animal Rights: Analysis About Peta Activist
Miranda Nicholson
Miss Light
English 101-035
16 November 2012
Rights (Of the Animal Variety)
Thesis: Members of PETA are too extreme with their fight for what they believe because they fail to recognize that many animals are needed for food, resources, economic success and necessary labor.
I. Society needs food and some of that food should come from animals. A. The number 10 billion may be shocking but the killing of animals for food is necessary. The alternative of being a vegetarian is always an option, but humans have the free will to make their own decisions, especially when it comes to eating. Therefor, the killing of animals should not be deemed cruel or illegal. B. Society has a dependance on the slaughtering of animals. The profits that come from processing animals are a huge part of economic success and the resources gathered from the animals are used wherever they are able to be used. For example, the fat from a cow can be used for plastic, soaps, cough syrup and cosmetics.
II. Along with pointing out to PETA that processing animals is vital for food and economic success, a clear line needs to be drawn between the value of humans and the value of animals. A. A protest was given by PETA for the billions of fish abused and killed by humans for food and sport. 1. PETA went as far as to make an empathy quilt for the fish that shows humans impaled on fishing hooks and slogans like, “Don’t Be a Fool...Fishing Is Cruel”. 2. PETA is too extreme with their protests and by these protests, humanity is devalued. Fish and humans are very different and if PETA thinks fishing is wrong than the killing of bovines, chickens and goats for food and other resources would also be seen as cruel. D. PETA follows the definition of an animal rightist by claiming that animals are of equal importance as humans. 1. PETA is too extreme with their approach to attaining rights for animals and fits the definition of an
Miss Light
English 101-035
16 November 2012
Rights (Of the Animal Variety)
Thesis: Members of PETA are too extreme with their fight for what they believe because they fail to recognize that many animals are needed for food, resources, economic success and necessary labor.
I. Society needs food and some of that food should come from animals. A. The number 10 billion may be shocking but the killing of animals for food is necessary. The alternative of being a vegetarian is always an option, but humans have the free will to make their own decisions, especially when it comes to eating. Therefor, the killing of animals should not be deemed cruel or illegal. B. Society has a dependance on the slaughtering of animals. The profits that come from processing animals are a huge part of economic success and the resources gathered from the animals are used wherever they are able to be used. For example, the fat from a cow can be used for plastic, soaps, cough syrup and cosmetics.
II. Along with pointing out to PETA that processing animals is vital for food and economic success, a clear line needs to be drawn between the value of humans and the value of animals. A. A protest was given by PETA for the billions of fish abused and killed by humans for food and sport. 1. PETA went as far as to make an empathy quilt for the fish that shows humans impaled on fishing hooks and slogans like, “Don’t Be a Fool...Fishing Is Cruel”. 2. PETA is too extreme with their protests and by these protests, humanity is devalued. Fish and humans are very different and if PETA thinks fishing is wrong than the killing of bovines, chickens and goats for food and other resources would also be seen as cruel. D. PETA follows the definition of an animal rightist by claiming that animals are of equal importance as humans. 1. PETA is too extreme with their approach to attaining rights for animals and fits the definition of an
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