The zoo.

Tomorrow I'm going to the zoo with one of the departments at my school. When I was first asked, I just put my name down as it sounded like a nice idea and everyone else was excited. I didn't really think about it. The zoo we are visiting is in a nice city a few hours away so I thought it would be a good opportunity to visit this city. This was a few months ago and now that the trip is imminent...I am concerned I will turn into an animal rights activist and annoy everyone else on the trip.

As the trip tomorrow got nearer I began to think about the last time I went. I haven't been to a zoo in a LONG time. The last time I think was when I was five years old somewhere in a foreign country. All I remember from that visit, was being incredibly saddened by the poor polar bear stuck in a 2x4 metre glass box with water cascading down onto it. I was five and had opinions on animal rights...think how opinionated I'll be now! It is a different zoo and it has been 12 years since I last visited one but I think I may end up hating it even more now that I'm older and able to understand things fully.

The whole concept of a zoo is ridiculous anyway! Locking up wild animals in the middle of a polluted, cramped city so that lots of bored humans can go and gawk at the pretty creatures for a few hours. It's revolting! It's one of those things I believe will be abolished in the future and people will look back with disgust at how selfish and cruel we once were. I understand that some zoo's do great work for animal conservation, but when the animals are stuck in this miserable existence sometimes you wonder if it would be more humane to just let them die.

I'm really not looking forward to this trip...

p.s. I'm all for safari's and national parks that protect endangered animals. I just think zoo's merely use this kind of bullshit to persuade people they're not completely pointless.