Zoos - it is wrong to use animals for 'education' or 'entertainment'

I want your feedback and help to improve this text that I wrote to comment on a thread in an event promoting an aquarium:

Animals are sentient beings. They have the right not to be exploited, not to be killed, not to get their family torn away from them, and it is morally wrong for anyone of us to disregard their interests.

Breeding up an animal for entertainment or "education" is neglecting their fundamental interests, such as their interest of freedom. It is also neglecting their fundamental interest of not being bred up to be property under the law [1], which gives the owner of the animal the opportunity and often the right to kill and exploit him/her for any reason. This is also frequently done in aquariums, zoos, and other institutions of animal use where "domesticated animals" are killed for any reason, including being exploited to become food for another imprisoned and exploited animal. Many animals are killed in zoos when the owners of the zoo decides that the animal should be replaced by another animal for "education" or "entertainment".

If we care about animals, we don't use them as property, and we don't exploit them for entertainment, education, pleasure, convenience, tradition, or any other reason.
This includes that we eat and thrive on a healthy plantbased diet without any animal foods, don't use animals as clothes, for entertainment, for companionsip, or any other purpose. For more information I refer to www.vegankit.com and https://www.facebook.com/ThoughtsPicturesPoems

1. http://law.bepress.com/rutgersnewarklwps/art21/

Reply to 'Everything eats something. Something dies so that i may live'

Quote: “Everything eats something. Something dies so that i may live”

Yes, but we don’t eat humans, because we think it is unethical. Other animals are also consciousness, and the only reason our culture is comfortable with eating them is a big disconnect to them and the exclusion created by our routine non-vegan choices made since childhood. There is no essential difference between other animals and us – we are all consciousness. Just the fact that they have different bodies doesn’t in any way justify us talking their precious life, which they value as much as we value our lives.

And there is a big inherent difference with killing a being that is consciousness, compared to taking the seeds and fruits from a plants – which helps the plant to spread itself. Read more here: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/04/vegan-answer-i-eat-animals-because-i.html

 

I would like you all to consider this:

We all agree that “unnecessary” animal suffering and death are morally wrong. If that means anything at all, it must mean that we cannot justify animal suffering and death by reasons of pleasure or convenience. But what is our best justification for imposing suffering and death on the 56 billion animals (excluding fish) we eat annually?

Pleasure. Convenience.

 

So the only justification we have is that which we agree cannot suffice. This is moral schizophrenia.

 

If you are not a vegan, you are participating directly in animal exploitation. Being a vegan is easy, better for your health, and the most powerful way that you, as an individual, can say “no” to animal exploitation.

Quote by Gary Francione: http://www.facebook.com/abolitionistapproach

 

Here are many interviews that brings clarity to the issue of animals right to live and not to be killed for trivial and unnecessary reasons, such as convenience, cultural habit or taste: http://gooseberryproductions.com/