I often wonder, if it is necessary that we eat animals or do vivisection on them. I think that animals are living creatures equal to people and that they should be treated with respect.
Some people say that it is good to test drugs on animals for side effects in human beings. But we should also remember about thalidomide's case to remind that it is difficult to predict what the effect on a man will be. Each test on animals can prove to be ineffective in case of people. Moreover, to find two most important drugs- penicillin and aspirin, no tests on animals were needed. They were discovered by pure accident.
What is even more important is experimenting on animals. Such experiments are often very cruel and I dint believe that they are really necessary. People make dogs smoke cigarettes, put cosmetics into mice's eyes to check if they will suffer. The worst thing is that most animals suffer so much that they consequently die in the laboratories.
In my opinion, we cannot approve of animal testing and experimenting. Animals feel pain just as we do and it is inhumane to cause so much pain to a living creature. Furthermore, many of the experiments diminish the dignity of a man as well as of an animal. They are said to be done foe the benefit of mankind. Why do we forget that animals should live an the same rights as a man does?
The abusive and exploitive attitude of a man towards animals is, in my opinion, intolerable. Most animals are dependant on people and deserve to be protected and looked after. We have no right to kill an animal just as we have no right to kill a human being. We cannot lat anyone cause pain or kill animals. We have to care for animals and watch ourselves and others so as not to let animals suffer. Animals should have a chance to enjoy their lives as much as people do. It will be possible only when we stop experiment and test on them.
These are also the reasons, why we ought not to kill animals only to eat them. Without meat we can live as healthy and normally as with it. There are many species that eat only plants and they stay healthy. Small animals as well as big ones are able to be strong and run quickly not eating meat. There are some kinds of vegetarian food, which are especially healthy for us, for example nuts, soy beans, brown bread, cheeses and vegetables. They have the same nutritive values as meet. I don't understand why so little people became vegetarians so far. Vegetarianism is not only healthy food but also a way of living in love with nature.
As well as people, animals too feel emotions. They fall in love, are devoted to each other, feel pain. No human should ever deprive animals of their rights. They should have a chance to enjoy freedom. Perhaps we should sometimes stop thinking only about our own stomachs and pleasures, and think about animals that suffer for us.
