# Animal-Rights-Essay

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Animal Rights Essay 
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. 
Write about the following topic: 
A growing number of people feel that animals should not be exploited by 
people and that they should have the same rights as humans, while others 
argue that humans must employ animals to satisfy their various needs, 
including uses for food and research. 
Discuss both views and give your opinion. 
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your 
own experience or knowledge. 
You should write at least 250 words. 
You are given two opposing opinions to discuss.  
This is the first opinion: 
Animals should not be exploited by people and they should have the same rights as humans. 
This is the second opinion: 
Humans must employ animals to satisfy their various needs, including uses for food and 
research. 
In this type of essay, you must look at both sides. In other words you need to discuss the 
arguments FOR animal rights and AGAINST. 
You must also ensure you give YOUR opinion. 
One way to organize an essay like this is to consider both opinions, then give your opinion in a 
final paragraph (see model essay 4) or dedicate a whole final paragraph to your opinion (see 
model essay 5). 
Another way to write an essay like this is to also make one of the 'for' or 'against' opinions your 
opinion as well. 

 
 
 
Look at the model animal rights essay. The second body paragraph discusses the first opinion, 
but the topic sentence makes it clear that this paragraph is also representing the writers opinion 
as well: 
However, I do not believe these arguments stand up to scrutiny.  
This now means that in two body paragraphs you have covered all three parts of the question 
from the animal rights essay: 
1. First opinion 
2. Second opinion 
3. Your opinion 
The advantage of doing it this way rather than having a separate paragraph is that you do not 
need to come up with new ideas for a new paragraph.  
If you have a separate paragraph with your opinion you may find you cannot think of any new 
ideas or you may end up repeating the same things as in your previous paragraphs.  
 
 
IELTS Writing Example 12 
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. 
Write about the following topic: 
A growing number of people feel that animals should not be exploited by 
people and that they should have the same rights as humans, while others 
argue that humans must employ animals to satisfy their various needs, 
including uses for food and research. 
Discuss both views and give your opinion. 
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your 
own experience or knowledge. 
You should write at least 250 words. 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Animal Rights Essay - Model Answer  
Some people believe that animals should be treated in the same way humans are 
and have similar rights, whereas others think that it is more important to use them 
as we desire for food and medical research. This essay will discuss both points of 
view.  
With regard to the exploitation of animals, people believe it is acceptable for 
several reasons. Firstly, they think that humans are the most important beings on 
the planet, and everything must be done to ensure human survival. If this means 
experimenting on animals so that we can fight and find cures for diseases, then this 
takes priority over animal suffering. Furthermore, it is believed by some that 
animals do not feel pain or loss as humans do, so if we have to kill animals for 
food or other uses, then this is morally acceptable. 
However, I do not believe these arguments stand up to scrutiny. To begin, it has 
been shown on numerous occasions by secret filming in laboratories via animal 
rights groups that animals feel as much pain as humans do, and they suffer when 
they are kept in cages for long periods. In addition, a substantial amount of animal 
research is done for cosmetics, not to find cures for diseases, so this is unnecessary. 
Finally, it has also been proven that humans can get all the nutrients and vitamins 
that they need from green vegetables and fruit. Therefore, again, having to kill 
animals for food is not an adequate argument. 
To sum up, although some people argue killing animals for research and food is 
ethical, I would argue there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that this is not the 
case, and, therefore, steps must be taken to improve the rights of animals. 
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