Essay On Animal Bill Of Rights

Animal Bill of Rights Since the beginning of time animals have walked the Earth with man. They have been used for food, clothing, friends, pets, and for other things. Many people believe that hurting an animal for personal gain is inhumane, but I disagree. A “Bill of Rights” for animals, I believe, is unnecessary in that animals wouldn’t even realize that they withhold such a powerful thing. They are needed by humans for survival, and finally if the laws on how we can treat animals is changed, companies would now have to re-learn the steps in properly caring for an animal before killing/experimenting with it. Animals do not need their own “Bill of Rights.” Many scientists have done research on how an animal's mind might work in feeling different kinds of pain. In an article entitled “Hooked on a Myth” written by Victoria Braithwaite, she writes about a fish that had been experimented on to see how it might react when being injected with vinegar or bee venom under the skin. “There gills beat faster, and they rub the affected area on the walls of their tank, lose interest in food and have problems making decisions.”(Braithwaite pg36 sec.4). This shows that, yes, the animal is susceptible to feeling pain and reacting towards it. However, later in
Animals were not put on this Earth to be equal with humans and be working “side-by-side” with each other, and the ones that are constantly mistreated don’t understand the difference of pain or simplicity. They way animals are living is fine already. I do, however, think that we as humans need to respect the way that we treat animals because they still have emotions and thoughts, but not enough to need their own bill of rights. Animals and humans should continue living together the way we have for billions of years without creating a new form of