Persuasive Speech On Animal Farm Ethics

I was born into an ordinary Australian family. I claimed to love animals, each day I would pat my cat and hug my Guinea Pigs, and every day I would consume the flesh of a pig, chicken, cow, sheep or fish. I certainly never realised the horrific harm done in the consumption of these sentient beings.
One day, I woke up. Now I walk the supermarket aisles and see products for what they are. Shelves stacked with the corpses of innocent creatures who wanted to live. Shelves full of the products of abused reproductive systems. I looked behind the façade of the gruesome meat industry. I woke up. But found everyone else is still sleeping.
I want you to realize, that behind meat, milk, eggs and other animal products, are living beings, with needs and …show more content…
While this is certainly an ethically preferable choice it is still immoral. The first point of concern with our current diet is that it is unnecessarily cruel.
Whether it’s for meat, milk, eggs, fur, gourmet food or a show, each animal used by humans is at the mercy of our despotism and irrepressible greed for consumption. The system hidden behind all these atrocities has a name: speciesism. Like racism and sexism, it is a system of discrimination, a system of violence that operates with the exact same mechanism as the others, to legitimize discrimination and death, and make the victims of this system invisible to us. Speciesism makes us believe that animals are worth less than humans, but why? They feel, suffer, think, miss, and they die, just as humans do.
Can you imagine what the RSPCA would do if you treated your dog in the same way pigs are? If you confine him in a dark shed where he would never see the light of day, in a cage where he could not turn round until he became infected and bleed from sores caused by rubbing against the bars, cried in pain and went mad due to lack of stimulation, and finally herded into a lorry taken many miles in extremes of temperature to be slaughtered quite often fully conscious. Yet this kind of treatment, and even worse, happens to farm animals around Australia every

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