Argue for Animal Rights

In Sarah Wells’s article, Radical but Right, she claims that animals should have rights to be afforded the protection from cruelty and death at our hands, especially being killed for food. The reason she argues for that is followed by several parts.

Firstly, as the result of Sarah’s researches shows, if we do not stop bad treatment on animals, more and more animals will disappear on the earth. For example, she has cited a case describing elephants’ situation from a magazine. In the second part of the article, she proofs that most of animals have not only intelligence, but also compassion and even sentience. In other words, animals have right to be protected from harms because they are able to feel pain, as the human does. Finally, Sarah states that there is no need for human beings to hunt animals for food. On one hand, several studies have proved, as she cites, we can find all necessary types of nutrients from other places rather than animals. On the other hand, people will enjoy better health from the vegetarian diet because it provides the prevention and treatment of certain diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

In my opinion, due to the straightforward structure and proper wording, this article is persuasive and is also good for readers to learn something about animals’ rights and the reasons for protecting them from our diet. Besides, the article is dressed well because the author uses a lot of specific evidence and examples to proof her argument.