For many people, the zoo is a source of childhood amazement and fond memories: swinging monkeys, laughing hyenas and growling tigers. Conservationists say zoos advance their educational and preservationist efforts, but others see zoos as prisons where innocent creatures are unjustly held captive. The next time your child asks you to take them to the zoo, what will your answer be?
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Should Animals be Kept in Zoos?
Who Speaks for the Animals?
Of course not. Use your heads, people, a natural environment is not man made. Don't you get it. Have we all become so self-involved that we can't even speak to this subject without somehow injecting our own wants and fears into the headline. Animals were discovered in the wild, they should remain in the wild. The education argument is a farce. Children don't learn about habitats and mannerisms from a poorly maintained and caged facility. We have no right to determine what is humane treatment and then fail to carry it out. Zoos do this, they should be outlawed.
- turbotwice August 6, 2008 1:58PM
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Does a bad zoo damn ALL zoos?
Your statement rightly criticizes bad zoos. But you seem to take that then to prove that all zoos are bad. That makes little sense.
- Curious
March 4, 2009 7:39AM
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