Speech - Zoos should be closed

Zoos should be closed for animal’s freedom and happiness. It is wrong to have animals captured and chained up in a cage. Making them entertain us in order to be fed and they aren’t being fed enough in the first place!
How would you like your teeth pulled out or chained through the nose? Well, in a zoo somewhere, tigers teeth are pulled out, Bears chained through the nose in order for visitors to take photos and feel safe. This is torture! To make the matter worse this means that this animal is unable to chew its food and may cause death if he chokes.
It is proven that animals live longer in the wild and that zoo are shortening the original lifespan of these creatures. It is said that the Elephants in the wild live twice or more years than the relatives living in zoos. Researchers found that Elephants in zoos only live for 17 years compared to elephants in the wild that die of natural disasters live for 56 years! This is despicable! Not only are we making them suffer and work, we are killing them.
We may be keeping these animals for entertainment and money but can’t you see we are becoming the enemies of these creatures and killing our own species? Many animals kept under supervision of zoo keepers has caused harm and death to visitors and workers. Just two years ago in October, a female elephant at Moscow zoo killed it’s handler with a kick due to the nervousness while being moved into a truck. There was also another accident causing one death and one badly injured, both being visitors of the zoo. A tiger had escaped from its cage and attacked the two, it was the same tiger that attacked to zoo keeper the previous year. The tiger was then shot to death after being found, this is wrong. Animals from zoos may cause death and injuries but that is because we give them the pain and hunger. If this carries on, animals will go crazy in the zoo, they will keep on attacking humans and many may die.
Zoos should be closed, animals should be returned to the wild and we should live together in peace, they did nothing wrong and so we have no right to harm or hunt them.