Is Keeping Animals In Captivity Wrong

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Argumentative Essay:Is keeping animals in captivity wrong?

Everyone would love to go on a trip to zoo...playful monkeys, circus elephants, exotic animals and clapping seals. People says that zoos are a very helpful way of learning and educating the next generation.On the other hand, some people is arguing that zoos are animal abuse and I am also saying that zoos are animal abuse. Think !If you were an animal you would like to be in captivity you would feel like running around the grass plains in Africa with peace instead of living in a ‘prison’ being gawked by random strangers?

We must treat them equally as they are also living creatures.Having animals in captivity is bad for their health not only losing their natural instincts the will have stress, shorter life span, repetitive movements, becoming lazier….etc they are all because of us! Have you heard of anti-depressant? People is using even drugs and violence to animals to make them calm down, do you think this is the right way to treat animals? When people sees a cheetah in a zoo not running, in fact, no enough spaces to run.Children wouldn’t get educated they might just mistake it as a jaguar or leopards.If cheetahs don't show their speed they will not know…their specialty….otherwise they won’t get educated …show more content…

In addition, captive animals don’t get to choose their mates, and they are sometimes artificially inseminated so that their babies can be sold or traded to other zoos. This often results in miscarriages, death at birth, or the mother’s rejection of her young. The Chinese government sell and rent pandas to zoos worldwide and earns around $600-700k for just every

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