Why the Death of Animals is an Environmental Concern.

Would you eat one of your household pets? No? Neither would I! So why is it ok to eat someone else’s cow? Or pig? Or chicken? I would like to discuss with you today the animal killing problem.

Almost every day an average person will eat some kind of animal. Except for vegetarians of course. But just that slice of bacon on your french toast in the morning is death of a cute little piglet. Obviously we all need meat for its protein. But there are alternatives to gaining the protein you need, like cheese,beans,eggs,milk products and nuts. We don’t need to be vegetarians and ditch meat completely, but we could at least cut down a little on our everyday intake.

Firstly, people started eating animals in the olden days as a source of food. Now people are eating it ALL the time for its flavour, or just to replace hunger. There are many other natural things in the supermarket to eat like vegetables, fruit or even just plain ice-cream!

Animals technically were on Earth long before us, and it was ok to eat them just for a source of food as we were a source of food to them. Animals are the hosts, we are the visitors, we shouldn’t take over their own home. Obviously we are able to share as long as we are allowing it. We are animals too in a way, so why are we attacking our own kind. You may think lions or tigers or even Great White sharks are the most dangerous. But they aren’t we are.

Not only are we eating them, but we are also killing them for money. Have you ever seen a coat or a scarf made of animal fur? Where do you think that comes from unless the fur is faux? That’s right! The animals provide us with all this fur just for our happiness and popularity. It is disgusting to see how much money businesses are paying to produce this kind of material for clothing! Tigers, foxes, cheetahs, seals even rhinos are being killed for all their special fur and horns. Even whales are killed just for their oil that they produce. Protesters are slowing down these killings, but not stopping them completely. Because of us these marvellous, intelligent creatures are becoming endangered and some, and even going extinct! I am positive that if we don’t slow this down soon, our children will end up wondering what a plain polar bear is. We are killing them and their habitats.

We are also polluting their homes with all of our store bought, un-environmentally friendly litter. Which is why we need more protected habitats for these animals. Imagine if somebody stole your house and family to get money! That is done to animals every day. They have to live with it. How many hedgehogs, possums, birds, and even cats have you seen lying dead coated with a thick layer of gore on the side of a road? I have seen about 200, and that is 200 too many. We must slow down and watch out. Without animals we wouldn’t survive. So why should we be killing them? We are killing ourselves. Without animals the world will end.

In conclusion I think we should do something about this catastrophe. Like maybe we could use faux fur for clothes rather than real fur, and slow down on our daily meat intake. We should eat to live, rather than live to eat.

By Oksana