Some people think humans can exploit animals for any purpose that they need while others disagree. Discuss both views and give your own opinion?

When it comes to the relationship between animals and human beings, quite a few people declare that human beings are entitled to exploit animals for whatever purpose they want, while others consider it otherwise. Personally, I side with the latter.

Advocates for freely exploring animals claim that, just like wolves to sheep, humans are on the superior to all animals. In their opinion, they should be allowed to take any advantage from any animal, including feeding on dogs’ meat, manufacturing clothes out of foxes’ fur and conducting medical experiments on alive mice. However, there is no such thing as superiority in nature. Each animal species, be it little frog in a farming field or massive tiger in a remote mountain, plays an irreplaceable part in its food chain and helps to maintain the balance of the nature.Without animals, the ecological system would be destroyed and human beings would not be able to survive in the future.

Exploiting animals at will should not be permitted, and the two main reasons are as follows. First of all, some exploiting behaviors from human beings completely ignores the pain or even the death of animals. In the case of extracting gall from alive bears, the bears feel extremely intensive pain, lying hopelessly in the cage, with blood flowing out from the bitter wounds on the chest and tears welling out off its innocent eyes. No civilized person would approve such brutal cases. Second of all, most of human’s activities of exploiting animals are not necessary. For example, the clothes of artificial furs, mostly made from fiber, provide equal warming and dressing effect with those of furs which human beings tripped mercilessly off alive foxes and rabbits. Besides, there have already been plenty of vegetarians worldwide, relying on bean products to satisfy their protein needs and living healthily, which means human beings can do without the meat from animals.

In conclusion, human beings should not exploit animals at will as some of human activities involving animals are too brutal to be approved and there are plenty of substitutes for the so-called necessary activities.