Animals should be kept in zoos

My arguments: Contention 1: Zoos harm animals http://www.veganpeace.com... The animals who live there are kept in cages that don't allow them to live their lives in a natural way such as move around like in the wild. No matter how big some zoos try to make the enclosures, no matter how many branches they put in them, no matter how beautiful they make the background paintings on the wall, they don't compare with the natural habitat the animals were meant to be in. Zoo animals have to spend day after day, week after week, year after year in the exact same enclosure. This makes their lives very sad and boring. It is not a good way to keep animals like that. It cruelty to keep animals in cages for their whole life. Animals in zoos are forced to live in artificial, stressful, and really boring conditions. Removed from their natural habitats and social structures, they are confined to small, restrictive environments that deprive them of mental and physical stimulation says http://www.lcanimal.org.... Moreover, while zoos generally claim to take in only the neediest of animals, most of the animals in zoos are not endangered, orphaned, or injured at all. A great many are captured from the wild. Those that are in breeding programs seemed destined for a life in captivity, for they are accustomed to an artificial environment where food, shelter, and protection from predators are provided for them. Natural conditions such as climate, habitat, and feeding cannot be properly recreated, and zoos lack sufficient space to reproduce a natural Brown bearenvironment, provide a normal social equilibrium of the species, or maintain a healthy gene pool ordered by natural selection. Zoos thus compromise captive animals" chances of successful introduction into the wild. Additionally, there may be no wilderness left for zoo-bred animals, as humans are destroying their natural habitat at such an alarming rate. The only way to realistically stop extinction is to preserve the world"s habitat and ecosystems. Impact: What if you were caught in the wild and was sent to a caged home in where you have to live their the rest of your life? It cruel just like the animals Contention 2: Zoos kills animals for food http://www.dailymail.co.uk... In this website a workers from a zoo: Food is included in the contract and Niclas, another former employee, revealed that the guest workers were fed animals that had been put down in the park, giving examples of a goat and hens. He reveals he once butchered a pig at the zoo to give the workers meat, adding: "They were so hungry and hadn't had any nutritious food for weeks.' Anna added: "They often had to eat monkey food. Old bread and old fruit which had been donated to the park by local grocers on the island, or nearby Kalmar on the mainland.' The stories from behind the cheery facade of the zoo, which welcomes visitors with a sign of two playing chimpanzees, has horrified and sickened the nation and animal lovers worldwide. Also on the website: On Wednesday Pia Westen, 19, revealed that the park had refused to let carers bottle feed a litter of lion cubs ignored by their mother. Two of them starved to death before carers were allowed to feed the other two. Staff were ordered to hide the suffering lion cubs behind tarpaulin sheets, with Westen saying: '[Supervisors] didn"t want visitors seeing them lying there, dying. The animal caretakers really wanted to save them but they weren't allowed until two of them had starved to death." Caroline Ryding worked at the park for two months in 2011 and claims she quit her job after witnessing 'permanent maltreatment of the animals'. She said: 'A coati - a Brazilian aardvark - was beaten to death with a baseball bat or a crowbar. And we were told afterwards not to tell the zoo vet. Soo people, the poor animals are experiencing jail as a home for them. The animal's right are being taken away while they are experience, death. So this is why you should vote for me.