My Persuasive Speech

Hello everyone. Welcome to my blog if you are new. Today we had to write a persuasive speech, and it could have any topic. I chose to make the topic about animal cruelty and how we can prevent it from enlarging. I hope you enjoy reading my speech. If you can, comment something I could improve on and I will try my best to make it happen.

Greetings everyone. I’m here today to convince you to stop eating meat. That was a joke. What I’m really doing here is to persuade at least a few of you to help spread the word of endangered animals. I think that this topic is really important and we need to talk about what us humans are doing to these innocent animals. Are you interested?

First of all, all animals should be treated with respect, and should be treated the same way humans want to be treated. Where is animal abuse most common in the world, you ask? Well, animals in Asia are among the most abused in the world. From bears captured and caged to dogs and cats slaughtered in horrific ways for their meat. Animal cruelty is getting bad and not even the most powerful people in the world are doing anything about it. This is why I’m writing my speech about protecting animals.

How many animal species are endangered? There are now 41,415 species on the IUCN red list, and 16,306 of them are endangered species threatened with extinction. The IUCN stands for International Union for Conservation of Nature, and this is just a platform related to flora and fauna. This is a huge number of species almost dying out, because of people who can’t help it, but just kill animals for money. People need to take a break from abusing and endangering Earth's plants and animals, and get normal jobs.

How can we prevent more species from ending up in the red list? After a long time of researching I have a list of ways you can help prevent this situation from increasing.

1. You could learn about endangered species in your area or country.

2. Create a backyard wildlife habitat. Such as bird baths and food.

3. Minimize use of herbicides and pesticides. Herbicides and pesticides are hazardous pollutants that can affect wildlife at many levels. Reduce use of fertilizer. Excess fertilizer will likely wash into streams and rivers and may lead to amphibian deformities and deaths.

4. Establish a pollinator garden with native vegetation in your yard. Native plants provide food and shelter for native wildlife. Attracting native insects like bees and butterflies can help pollinate your plants. Avoid planting invasive species. Non-native plants can overtake and destroy native species on which animals depend.

There are many ways to help, and if you are really committed to this type of situation then you could save a whole species of animals.

Animal cruelty also known as animal abuse is really bad now. People are using them for their meat and fur, and some people are betting on which animal would win in a fight. Another example of animal abuse is where the animal is denied simple necessities such as fresh water, food, shelter or necessary medical attention. Animal abuse needs to stop because the world would be much better if there was no harm to the animals. People such as Scientists test products on animals. They test it on them first to see if it's safe before actually selling the product, and because of this animals (Mostly rabbits) are hurting and dying.

To conclude everything I’ve spoken about today, I hope you’ve learnt a thing or two about how we can prevent animal cruelty from expanding, and also prevent animal species from dying out. We need our animals because without them the food chain would be messed up and other animals wouldn’t have their food and eventually that species would die out too.