Persuasive Essay On Animal Agriculture

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We live on a beautiful and life giving planet that we don’t want to see being destroyed but still it seems that we carry out extreme and illogical activities that counter that presumption. Humans by nature are selfish and although that is something we cannot change anytime soon, there needs to be some sort of education for people to understand their actions that they play on the environment. We only have one planet and we should take care of it. The incredible devastation that animal agriculture is causing to our planet is alarming and not enough is being done about it. The E.P.A. recommends that individuals reduce their dependence of energy come from fossil fuels but new studies are now showing that the fact is that our incredibly immense practice of …show more content…
In addition to that, there need to be new rules and regulations set to cut back on the animal agriculture industry for the sake of the environment. This is a big problem, but we cannot rely solely on the public to initiate change for a number of reasons. A few being that some people are climate change deniers, some are simply not interested in environmental matters, and others do not want to reduce their habit of animal exploitation. That’s why we need to appeal to the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture to implement laws that will start off by gradually reduce the amount of factory farms that are in existence and eventually putting an end to all forms of animal exploitation

Humans are creatures of habit and in addition to that they don’t like to change; and often when they do change they are very slow at it. We have been eating and otherwise exploiting animals for thousands of years. Although we like to think that eating animals is normal, natural and necessary, this practice of the slaughter and consumption and otherwise use of animals is wreaking havoc on our environment in a very

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