Animal Rights

Many radicals claim that animal cruelty is fine. I personally feel that it is way of slowly killing our animal population especially the endangered ones. It is bad enough animals are being mistreated and used for other things besides pets but do we have to add this to the list as well? We need a change, Animal rights should be made into a law.

If you look deep into the story, animals are as human as we are when it comes down to having rights. All of the dog and chicken fights, make-up tests, and just animal cruelty in general should be abandoned. I know it's illegal but what is that doing? many people break the laws and still go on with their lives. what's next, we need too take a more aggressive stand. We need to fight back twice as hard.

Just sending these criminals to jail is not working obviously so what are we going to do? I'll tell you, we need to band all meats. I know that it is good but so is healthy foods that did not have to die unwillingly before entering your stomach. We need to band all furs especially chinchillas. Did you know that it takes 200 of those cute furry little animals just to make one three-quarter lenght coat? Imagine how many it takes to make an ankle length coat, from 4-600!

Many other things like snakeskin's and leather need to go. Being as though people don't really care enough to know this, leather is actually made from cows! That is so sick, we are killing animals for a shirt, pants, and shoes that will last us about a year and some of us don't even keep it for that long. This is truly an outrage and if anyone at all had a heart, they would consider sparing the lives of cats, dogs, fish, lambs, cows, birds, pigs, and any other animals out there.

If it were up to me we would have an animal appreciation day. I for one truly love animals, they could be your best friend in our second home (nature) we need to show that us as humans are indeed caring enough to spare the lives of our fellow friends. I love animals and it would be ashamed to see them go because of the selfishness of the human race.

_Cynthia King_