Topic: Too much attention is paid to and too much money is spent on keeping pets, while people throughout the world are starving.
Discuss the arguments for and against keeping pets. To what extent do you agree?
Individuals have different methods to console themselves. Pets are considered as friendly animals to release stress or depression. However, owning a pet requires considerable expenditure for care, food and medication. Therefore, these funds should be spent for alleviation of famine or starving people rather than pets.
Pets are good friends for people who suffer loneliness, isolation and stress. In many European countries where people live independently and lack close family relations, individuals usually keep a pet as a close friend, particularly a dog, for shopping and travel. As a result, this can decrease suicide among isolated people. Thus, pets may decrease social problems through their role as friends.
However, people need to spend too much money to keep pets, and this money should be spent to reduce poverty and starvation. For example, the expenditure on food and medication for pets in Western countries worth billions of dollars, while people in Sudan, Somalia and other less developed nations live in hunger. So, money for taking care of pets should be spent on starving people.
Furthermore, keeping pet is not time effective. People have to spend at least three hours a day for care, while housework or social work needs a considerable labour to improve society. For example, some Americans prefer to participate to preserve environment rather than pets. Therefore, spending time for social work is more meaningful than keeping pets.
In conclusion, people should spend money and time to alleviate poverty, hunger and social activities rather than useless pets.
By Ith Hero
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