Persuasive Speech On Animal Abuse

Fifty-six billion is a big number. This number represents the number of animals abused and killed every year around the globe, and every day over 150 million innocent lives are brutally slaughtered. BBC,CNN and many other news industries have been informing us about this topic for centuries if not years. Recently, a very important animal that has been part of the Cincinnati zoo, was shot. Not only was Harambe shot but he was shot in front of hundreds of people. People who were surprised, people who were in shock. An animal dying should not surprise us. We are on the top of the food chain. We end millions upon millions of lives every day, right? Why should we be shocked?, Probably because most of you didn't know what happens to the animals around us. Animal abuse is becoming a bigger and bigger problem, especially in zoos. Animal abuse is cruel and

Killing animals in zoos isn't new to us. Other zoos are also doing this such as Copenhagen,¨Up to 5,000 healthy zoo animals - including hundreds of larger ones such as giraffes,lions, and bears - are killed by zoos in Europe every year, it is claimed today. The revelation comes in the wake of the international furor over the killing of Marius, a healthy 18-month-old giraffe, by Copenhagen Zoo,¨(annex 1). In Michelle Carr.’s article, she writes and talks about animals and how they feel in the enclosures,” But once I saw them “up close and personal,” I realized that the animals were miserable. It instantly became very clear to me that the animals imprisoned in zoos are sad and don’t want to be kept in artificial environments, have people gawk at