Animals used for entertainment is a problem that I am very passionate about, in fact I have just made a speech about this subject and I presented it in front of most of my school.
I hope to take your time to read this. Here is my speech below...
Why should animals suffer for our entertainment?
Why should they have to jump through hoops for us?
Why should they get abused for us?
Why should they get killed for us?
Animals aren’t actors or circus clowns for us to gawk at.
Cock fights, aquariums, zoos and rodeos are just a few examples of how cruel and abusive humans can be towards animals.
Most people go to circuses, zoos, or marine parks because they “love animals” and have no idea what happens behind the scenes or how unnatural it is for animals to be captured, confined, and forced to perform for our entertainment.
This cannot go on!
Animals in captivity are grenades about to explode at any second.
Frustrated by years of beatings and abuse some elephants snap. And when an elephant rebels against a trainer’s physical dominance, trainers cannot protect themselves, let alone the public.
Bears, elephants, tigers, and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They don’t perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to, they perform them because they’re afraid of what will happen if they don’t.
Circuses are concentration camps.
Undercover video footage of animal training sessions has shown that elephants are beaten with bullhooks and shocked with electric prods, big cats are dragged by heavy chains around their necks and hit with sticks, bears are whacked and prodded with long poles, and chimpanzees are kicked and hit with riding crops.
Some zoos even give mood-altering drugs such as Prozac to the animals in order to address the public’s complaints about abnormal behaviors.
This cannot go on!
Zoos cannot provide the amount of space animals have in the wild. This is particularly the case for those species who roam larger distances in their natural habitat. Tigers and lions have around 18,000 times less space in zoos than they would in the wild. Polar bears have one million times less space
Animals are often “rescued” from one tragic situation only to end up in another. These seedy operations bring in donations by preying on people’s sympathy while exploiting the animals in their care.
Many drive-through wildlife parks use baby animals to attract customers through the front gate, while older and unwanted animals are quietly shipped out the back gate, sometimes by the hundreds each year. Many of these animals end up at auctions or slaughterhouses or on hunting ranches.
This cannot go on!
Aquariums are prison cells.
Marine mammal parks capture animals from the wild, tearing animal families apart, confine highly intelligent animals who were meant to swim up to 100 miles a day to small, concrete, chemically treated tanks, and force the animals to learn silly circus tricks, often by withholding food. Whales and dolphins at these facilities typically die decades earlier than their own kind in the wild, and some have even committed suicide by choosing to stop breathing or by slamming their heads against the walls of the tank.
How would you feel if you were forced to live in a bathtub for your entire life?
Chimpanzees and orangutans used in entertainment are typically torn away from their mothers shortly after birth, a horribly cruel process that causes irreversible psychological harm to the baby and the mother. In order to force young apes to perform on cue, trainers often beat the animals. Systematic abuse causes the animals to be constantly anxious and fearful, always anticipating the next blow. In fact, the chimpanzee “grin” so often seen in movies and on television is actually a grimace of fear.
This cannot go on!
Unlike humans, no ape ever dreams of being a star on the big screen. To them, “performing” is stressful, confusing, and torturous.
When apes become too large and strong to handle (usually at around age 8), they are often dumped at small roadside zoos and other low standard facilities, where they may spend decades in small barren cages often in solitary confinement. Chimpanzees can live into their 60s, and orangutans can live into their 50s, so “retirement” from entertainment often means a long life of misery for these highly intelligent and sensitive animals.
Animals who are used in racing includes horses, greyhounds, and sled dogs, are often drugged to mask sickness and injury and are forced to race. Between races, they are typically confined for most of the day to cramped stalls or crates with barely enough room to turn around in. When they stop winning races, most of these animals are shot, sold to laboratories for experiments, or sent to slaughterhouses.
This cannot go on!
Zoos and aquariums claim to promote “education”, but the only thing to be learned at these sad facilities is how animals who want to be free act when living in captivity.
Most of these facilities are designed with the needs and desires of the visitors in mind, not the needs of the animals. Many animals in zoos and aquariums exhibit abnormal behavior as a result of being deprived of their natural environments and social structures.
In a zoo or circus, wild animals produced in captive breeding programs are never released into the wild. They will live a life in captivity or animal testing.
This cannot go on!
Animals are a living ATM machine.
These cruel exhibits can only stay in business because people pay admission to visit them.
The only way to stop this horrid abuse is by refusing to support or visit animal entertainment facilities.
Learn about animals by watching nature documentaries or by observing them in their own habitats instead.
No animal deserves to be abused or killed for our “entertainment.”
I hope to take your time to read this. Here is my speech below...
Why should animals suffer for our entertainment?
Why should they have to jump through hoops for us?
Why should they get abused for us?
Why should they get killed for us?
Animals aren’t actors or circus clowns for us to gawk at.
Cock fights, aquariums, zoos and rodeos are just a few examples of how cruel and abusive humans can be towards animals.
Most people go to circuses, zoos, or marine parks because they “love animals” and have no idea what happens behind the scenes or how unnatural it is for animals to be captured, confined, and forced to perform for our entertainment.
This cannot go on!
Animals in captivity are grenades about to explode at any second.
Frustrated by years of beatings and abuse some elephants snap. And when an elephant rebels against a trainer’s physical dominance, trainers cannot protect themselves, let alone the public.
Bears, elephants, tigers, and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They don’t perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to, they perform them because they’re afraid of what will happen if they don’t.
Circuses are concentration camps.
Undercover video footage of animal training sessions has shown that elephants are beaten with bullhooks and shocked with electric prods, big cats are dragged by heavy chains around their necks and hit with sticks, bears are whacked and prodded with long poles, and chimpanzees are kicked and hit with riding crops.
Some zoos even give mood-altering drugs such as Prozac to the animals in order to address the public’s complaints about abnormal behaviors.
This cannot go on!
Zoos cannot provide the amount of space animals have in the wild. This is particularly the case for those species who roam larger distances in their natural habitat. Tigers and lions have around 18,000 times less space in zoos than they would in the wild. Polar bears have one million times less space
Animals are often “rescued” from one tragic situation only to end up in another. These seedy operations bring in donations by preying on people’s sympathy while exploiting the animals in their care.
Many drive-through wildlife parks use baby animals to attract customers through the front gate, while older and unwanted animals are quietly shipped out the back gate, sometimes by the hundreds each year. Many of these animals end up at auctions or slaughterhouses or on hunting ranches.
This cannot go on!
Aquariums are prison cells.
Marine mammal parks capture animals from the wild, tearing animal families apart, confine highly intelligent animals who were meant to swim up to 100 miles a day to small, concrete, chemically treated tanks, and force the animals to learn silly circus tricks, often by withholding food. Whales and dolphins at these facilities typically die decades earlier than their own kind in the wild, and some have even committed suicide by choosing to stop breathing or by slamming their heads against the walls of the tank.
How would you feel if you were forced to live in a bathtub for your entire life?
Chimpanzees and orangutans used in entertainment are typically torn away from their mothers shortly after birth, a horribly cruel process that causes irreversible psychological harm to the baby and the mother. In order to force young apes to perform on cue, trainers often beat the animals. Systematic abuse causes the animals to be constantly anxious and fearful, always anticipating the next blow. In fact, the chimpanzee “grin” so often seen in movies and on television is actually a grimace of fear.
This cannot go on!
Unlike humans, no ape ever dreams of being a star on the big screen. To them, “performing” is stressful, confusing, and torturous.
When apes become too large and strong to handle (usually at around age 8), they are often dumped at small roadside zoos and other low standard facilities, where they may spend decades in small barren cages often in solitary confinement. Chimpanzees can live into their 60s, and orangutans can live into their 50s, so “retirement” from entertainment often means a long life of misery for these highly intelligent and sensitive animals.
Animals who are used in racing includes horses, greyhounds, and sled dogs, are often drugged to mask sickness and injury and are forced to race. Between races, they are typically confined for most of the day to cramped stalls or crates with barely enough room to turn around in. When they stop winning races, most of these animals are shot, sold to laboratories for experiments, or sent to slaughterhouses.
This cannot go on!
Zoos and aquariums claim to promote “education”, but the only thing to be learned at these sad facilities is how animals who want to be free act when living in captivity.
Most of these facilities are designed with the needs and desires of the visitors in mind, not the needs of the animals. Many animals in zoos and aquariums exhibit abnormal behavior as a result of being deprived of their natural environments and social structures.
In a zoo or circus, wild animals produced in captive breeding programs are never released into the wild. They will live a life in captivity or animal testing.
This cannot go on!
Animals are a living ATM machine.
These cruel exhibits can only stay in business because people pay admission to visit them.
The only way to stop this horrid abuse is by refusing to support or visit animal entertainment facilities.
Learn about animals by watching nature documentaries or by observing them in their own habitats instead.
No animal deserves to be abused or killed for our “entertainment.”