Persuasive Essay On Animal Abuse
Animal Cruelty
As I look at today’s society, there is one problem imp articular that stands out to me. It affects my family’s farming operation, and it affects everyone in some way whether it is from watching it on the news from time to time, or having dealt with some form of it in your past. The topic I would like to propose is animal cruelty. I want to explore this topic because of the so many different points of view that our society has upon it. It may not directly affect everyone in our class, but I guarantee every single person will have an opinion on what defines animal cruelty. Does everyone oppose it? Are all animals that don’t live in your house being abused? Is keeping livestock in barns animal cruelty? If your pet does something bad and you beat it, is that animal cruelty? If you leave your dog in the car in 100 degree weather for a prolonged period of time, is that cruelty? There are so many different opinions on these questions, and I look forward to getting the chance to be able to examine the topic closely in …show more content…
I just got lost reading through all of the articles, and I had to remind myself of the task at hand. There were several articles talking against PETA on that site, and most of them mainly talked about how PETA blows everything out of proportion, how everything they do is just a big PR stunt to raise money for their organization. One of the recent ‘so called PR stunts’ is something I am quite sure a lot of people found amusing. They claimed that pregnant mothers who eat Buffalo wings doom their sons to smaller penises (Miller, “Consumer Freedom”). Now that will attract a lot of attention! Although, the source that PETA cited in this statement didn’t even look at chicken when doing their research (Miller, “Consumer Freedom”). I’m starting to see how some of them might not understand what goes on within the food production
As I look at today’s society, there is one problem imp articular that stands out to me. It affects my family’s farming operation, and it affects everyone in some way whether it is from watching it on the news from time to time, or having dealt with some form of it in your past. The topic I would like to propose is animal cruelty. I want to explore this topic because of the so many different points of view that our society has upon it. It may not directly affect everyone in our class, but I guarantee every single person will have an opinion on what defines animal cruelty. Does everyone oppose it? Are all animals that don’t live in your house being abused? Is keeping livestock in barns animal cruelty? If your pet does something bad and you beat it, is that animal cruelty? If you leave your dog in the car in 100 degree weather for a prolonged period of time, is that cruelty? There are so many different opinions on these questions, and I look forward to getting the chance to be able to examine the topic closely in …show more content…
I just got lost reading through all of the articles, and I had to remind myself of the task at hand. There were several articles talking against PETA on that site, and most of them mainly talked about how PETA blows everything out of proportion, how everything they do is just a big PR stunt to raise money for their organization. One of the recent ‘so called PR stunts’ is something I am quite sure a lot of people found amusing. They claimed that pregnant mothers who eat Buffalo wings doom their sons to smaller penises (Miller, “Consumer Freedom”). Now that will attract a lot of attention! Although, the source that PETA cited in this statement didn’t even look at chicken when doing their research (Miller, “Consumer Freedom”). I’m starting to see how some of them might not understand what goes on within the food production