Good afternoon! Ladies and gentlemen!

I am very happy to have the opportunity to attend this Competition.

My topic today is Never Say Sorry Again!

Do you feel sorry for the animals that are killed by the millions every day?

Do we really need to kill animals?

Let us now think of the reasons for using dead animals. People often use animals for food, make-up, medicine and especially for the clothes. Fur coats are definitely a luxury. Yes, they are warm but really they are mostly a symbol of wealth. Do you know how much a mink coat cost?

A report said in an open letter published recently, a Dutch animal-rights group has asked their much-loved Queen to stop wearing fur. The Group pointed out that making clothing from fur represents cruelty to animals.Fur belongs to animals, not to human beings.

Nowadays a lot of greedy people hunt and kill wild animals and birds, so as to make money by selling their hides at high prices. This kind of killing should be stopped and seriously punished. If we don't take actions to protect the wild animals and birds, they will soon disappear from the globe. Man will one day find himself a very lonely creature on earth indeed.

Until such a day, when we finally realized that we no longer have these friends or neighbors, what are we human beings going to say? Sorry? No, it is too late to say sorry to them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please consider what I have said to you this afternoon. Think carefully on whether we really need to use animals for our pleasure if you have e to the conclusion that we are wrong. Then we should now change our attitude so that we never say sorry again to the animal population.

Thank you!

女士们，先生们！下午好：

我非常高兴能够有机会参加这次比赛。

今天我演讲的题目是不要再说sorry.

你对那些每天都被数以万计被猎杀的动物而感到sorry吗？

我们真的需要猎杀动物吗？

现在我们来想一想人类为什么要猎杀动物。人们经常用动物做一些食物，药物，化妆品，特别是做衣服。皮毛大衣的确非常昂贵。是的，他们很暖和，并且它们确实是财富的象征，你知道一件貂皮大衣的价钱吗？

荷兰的一个动物权利组织在一封公开信上要求他们爱戴的女王不要穿裘皮大衣了。她的臣民认为穿裘皮大衣代表了对动物的残忍，皮毛属于动物，并不属于人类。

现在许多贪得无厌的人猎杀野生动物和飞禽，高价出售它们的皮毛来牟取暴利。这种猎杀必须得到停止并且受到严厉的制裁。如果我们还不采取行动来保护这些野生动物和飞禽，它们不久就会从地球上消失。终有一天人类会发现自己竟成了地球上一种实在孤独的生物。

直到那一天，当我们最终察觉人类再也不会有这些朋友或者邻居时，我们还将说些什么呢？Sorry?不，说sorry已经太迟了。

女士们，先生们，请认真思考一下今天下午我所对你们说的一切。请务必认真的想一想，我们是不是真的需要为了满足自己的欲望来猎杀动物？如果你们有这样错误的想法，那么现在就应该改变态度，使我们不再对动物说：Sorry!

谢谢！