People’s opinions regarding animals are different. While some people see nothing bad in exploiting animals for the sake of humanity, others believe that it is better to stop doing so. Although it is animals that have enabled us to reach our current state, I believe, it is high time to stop exploiting them as there are alternatives for almost all aspects of animal usage.
On the one hand, advocates of animal exploitation emphasize how integral animals were and perhaps are for people. To be more specific, they point out that animals were drivers of development in ancient times greatly helping people almost on an industrial scale. For example, animal creatures have been used to plow fields, preparing the area for further crop season. The same is said to be still true now. Furthermore, those supporting further exploitation of animals state that these creatures are a vital source of nutrition for people. Without any doubt, people’s diets were and are still predominantly dependent on animal-based food, such as meat and milk, providing us with the right amount of nutrients daily. Moreover, animal exploitation is said to be inevitable in science. This is because most of the treatments have to be tested on animals before getting approval for human usage.
However, critics of animal exploitation, including me, argue that given our current state, it is inhumane to use animals to fulfill people’s needs. However bitter it is to admit, most of the animals in industrial farms are kept in tough conditions, preventing them from normal development. Instead, to gain more profit, in this case meat, people fill the creatures with chemicals which leads to serious conditions that an animal is not designed for by nature. A vivid example can be conditions under which thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of hens are kept waiting the day to be slaughtered, for further procession. In my opinion, it is totally unacceptable to see this, while humanity is striving to create a fair community as well as having other sources of nutrition apart from animals.
One more argument against their exploitation is that humanity has already reached that state of technological advancement and we should withdraw our dependence on them gradually when testing medications on them. In detail, scientists have already started using computer simulations to examine whether this or that medication can be applied to humans. Because of this, I believe, we must stop seeing animals as limitless materials. The same is true for animal force. Notably, seeing the exploitation of animals in areas where people can apply machinery, an action typically avoided for saving purposes, goes far beyond the ethical principles as well.
To conclude, some people are not concerned about the exploitation of animals looking at them as a source of labor, nutrition, and a tester used to fulfill people’s needs only. However, in my view, the conditions of keeping these creatures, causing physical issues totally contradict the ethics, suggesting that it is unacceptable to exploit animals.
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