20thJune2012

I've been reading up on a story of Lake Superior Zoo today, which is about it flooding and several animals being drowned and a few escaping. The happenings made me upset and a little angry, I can't help but feel like they could have done more to save the poor animals. Two seals and a polar bear escaped, the two seals down the public street and the polar bear just outside of it's enclosure, which then had to be shot to make it unconscious but no harm came to it apparently. I don't understand why they couldn't relocate those animals which were in danger before the harm came to them, but I guess it was a difficult night and 'they did as much as they possibly could', however evidentially that was not enough.
I'm very dedicated to animals, and am willing to do just anything reasonable to give them the recognition that they deserve, rather than just being seen as something to put on a plate and see in a zoo. Far too many animals are being tortured in the world of today, and this is done mostly for humans benefit. I'm happy that there's people out there who share the same opinion as me, and realise that it's not okay to eat animals just because we are able to. I feel as if animals are weak in the food chain in comparison to people, just like disabled people are to those without disabilities. We wouldn't take advantage of disabled people, children or the elderly just because they aren't as strong or as smart as us, so why should we with animals. It is disgusting to me, and I accept cannibalism a lot more than I do animals as they're vulnerable where as people do many bad things in their life and make others suffer.
I would love to bring back the death penalty, there are so many advantages of this and I can imagine it would gain our country a lot of money too, however I'm sure those in charge and the public would go crazy. Those which cause serious pain to others should not be allowed to survive or live even a little bit of a decent life once they have been caught, far too many people get away with too much these days.