Real Fur is just Wrong

I was researching an organization called PETA( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) which is about preventing animal cruelty. I read an article about people killing animals for their fur and I was shocked in the amount of death of animals due to this selfish act. It’s bad enough that we killed animals for food but if you are going to kill animals, at least have a legit reason for it and not something so useless like for a coat. We are giving up a life of an animal. People just see the result of the fur but not the effect of how to get it. People need to be aware that killing animals for fur is just wrong and they also need to be aware that the communities need to stop this animal cruelty as soon as possible.

            As humans, we need to realize that all creatures are the same. Why do we want to kill animals? That’s the question people need to ask themselves. PETA talks about the animal cruelty and how we need to spread the word and information so that we can prevent this unethical ways. Media such as teachings in school, news, and awareness signs are being place everywhere in the world but this is not enough. The percentage of animal deaths decline with the help of PETA but we as a community can do much more such as form a organization at places like UT to support this protest. APA came to UT with a goal of making Austin a no kill city and because of this leap Austin is slowly becoming what APA had envision. We need to do the same, we need to start an organization that can make Austin a no animal cruelty city. PETA has this special day called “Fur-free Friday” on November 26 which is a day dedicated to teach the public about the inhumanity of skinning animals for their fur. Places like Washington have this event but not Austin. We can help support PETA by setting up this event in Austin to teach about the animal cruelty that is going on in the world.

            Personally as a natural science major, I kind of feel a bit disgusted when I hear from my professor that UT have locations where they use animals for experimental purposes. I would protest about this idea and since my goal and major are both connected it makes it more motivational for me to gather my peers around me to follow me. Since APA came to UT with a goal of saving animals, people like us who love animals can gather together with the APA group and form an additional goal to teach about animal cruelty to people at UT. All it takes is a little support from APA and from people around us and we can create a club just like APA. Baby steps such as posting up flyers about this club and spreading the words are ways we can reach this goal. Things like setting an example in the leadership, ethics and animal class can also play a big role in stretching this goal for the future. If our class can make a big impact in the animal world then people who will take this class after us might feel inspire to create the same vision that we are trying to do. With all these procedures, getting supporters and spreading the knowledge of animal cruelty can increase drastically. As a result, the goal to prevent animal cruelty such as skinning animals can be stop.

            With such leadership that we are performing I can use this same quality of mine to take me farther in my college experience. I can create new goals and take part in leadership position to try to spread my own ideas and acquired new purposes while I’m in college. Things I learn while being in the Leadership class like realizing that there are more to life then just humanity. There are natures and creatures that who are suffering because of us and I want to somehow fix this problem. Most importantly people like us should rise to the occasion to become the leader that will better the lives of tomorrow.