Bill Of Rights To Animals Essay

Animals have Feelings too

Animals have feelings. It’s been proven numerous amounts of time by animal behaviorists. Even animals as simple as a fish have feelings, they feel pain just as we do. It was stated by Victoria Braithwaite in her article “Hooked on a Myth”, that fish, just as humans, have nociceptors that alert the fish that they are in pain. Your dog yelps when you step on its foot on accident, does it not? Do people think that if they shoot an animal it doesn’t feel it? This is why I think we need an animal bill of rights. Animals, of all kinds, need the ability to live freely in the world without people killing and hurting them without consequence. We need a bill of rights for animals and focuses mainly on animal abuse, destroying habitats/ deforestation, poaching and experimentation. Animals have feelings so, we shouldn’t let them have to live their lives in fear.

There’s a man named Jacky Lo ,while saying he was “cleaning” his dog, put the small white fluff into his washing machine and turned it on. The puppy drowned and the man is still free today. This is animal cruelty.

The dog swam for it’s life and had done nothing wrong to be killed, yet, it was brutally murdered. The maximum sentence in China where the man is from is 3 years jail time, which is not enough. Even though dogs and other animals may not be able to speak that does not mean they can’t feel that they’re being hurt. This dog may have died with with a bill of rights, that has a hefty sentencing for animal cruelty, other animals might be able to be saved. If we don’t have a bill of rights people like Jacky Lo might keep killing innocent animals for their own sick desires. Animals deserve a home and a place where they can live happily, not a place where they can be abused and their homes can be destroyed.
Animals have homes like we do. They live in trees, rivers, oceans, lakes and so many more places. We like to go scuba diving in the crystal clear waters or tropical islands to see the fish but, if we keep having oil spills we won’t see those fish. People love to go on safaris or go to the woods and see wild deer and bears, but with constant deforestation and industrialization those animals homes are being obliterated and their species is having to move to unknown habitats or are having to come into the cities to find shelter and food. As the human population grows, the animal population shrinks due to them losing their homes. It’s like the 2009 housing crisis, except animals can’t just go live somewhere else. Species are going extinct every day because of this. We need a bill of rights for the animals so that they can have somewhere safe to live, where they can have a home that isn’t destroyed by industrial causes. Oil and other chemicals can be dumped somewhere else so that animals are not hurt or killed. We want to be able to see the fish while scuba diving or to see the wildlife while on a safari.
I’m sure you’ve seen pictures of rhinos with their horns torn off, or elephants without tusks.

That’s because of something called poaching. Taking animals horns, tusks, antlers, skin, scales or whatever it may be without the animals consent is poaching. It’s illegal in most countries, but is still practiced anyway. The animals need their horns tusks and etc to live. If you take away a human’s hands and feet without consent it’s called cruel and unusual punishment, yet if you clip your bird's wings so that it may not fly it’s normal. Why is it okay to take away body parts of animals if we can’t do it to others? If animals had a bill of rights this wouldn’t happen. If the bill of rights made the fines and jail time so hefty that people would refrain from amputating animals, it could work. But currently since we have no bill of rights, animals are still being

poached.
Rats. Rats have been used as test subjects for years. Cruel experiments to test pharmaceutical products, that we have 100 different version of already, on the market have been performed numerous times on innocent animals like rats. Rats are being bred for the sole purpose to be used in experiments and no one cares. They’re testing drugs on apes and monkeys to see how it would affect the human mind. They’re forcibly impregnating animals to make clones, they’re also forcibly aborting animals babies to poke around at the embryos to learn more about science. They don’t do this on humans, but animals are okay? Testing for something we humans are going to use, should be tested on us. Test new drugs on prisoners for all I care. Don’t hurt innocent animals for the purposes of a new lipstick. The bill of rights for animals should stop extreme experimentation on animals that can’t handle the products like humans can.
In Africa there’s a baby elephant sanctuary where, motherless baby elephants that were found injured and lost go. Two of the baby elephants being named Gilrai and Doto whose stories were shared on the show “Infinity Challenge.” Doto was found starving and helpless small village in the middle of a mountain forest, where no help could get easily, motherless like all elephants in the sanctuary. He was extremely weak and was barely able to respond and move. The sanctuary was eventually able to get to him and Doto was saved. He is currently still weak and is on constant watch but is recovering. Gilrai was found deep inside a man made well where she had fallen in. A chunk of her lower back was torn off when she fell which could have been life threatening. The elephant sanctuary found her and saved her, like Doto, and she is now in recovery along with dozens of other baby elephants that have survived hunters and abandonment during their times in need. With an animal bill of rights other animals, like these elephants, could get the care and help they need. They could get a decent home in the wild where they have plentiful food and water without worrying about poachers. If we have a bill of rights domesticated animals could live their lives in peace without being scared of being abused by their owners whom they trust. This is why we need a bill of rights.