...Riley Smith Lang 120 Professor Murray March 31 2015 Animal Cruelty and Abuse Animal abuse is said to be an under reported abuse stated by The Humane Society, it is also seen as a disturbing abuse. The rate in which animal abuse is going is only making it terrifying. The statistics of animal abuse are rising more and more with each year that comes. Although humans see it as something unfathomable, animal abuse occurs every day. Animal abuse is when physical pain, scarring, or death is brought upon an animal for no reason or showing it neglect. As shown in a group of statistics by The Humane Society shows that most abuse cases occur in dogs the most, commonly the pit bull. The Humane Society states that in 2001 abuse that occurred with dogs was around 13%, in 2007 it increased with a 12% jump to 25%, but in their latest study it was shown that 65% of abuse cases occur with dogs. As startling as this information may sound, it is a fact that society as a whole is becoming a worse place that feels like it is okay to hurt animals. In fact 68% of humans believe that the meat prices need to drop instead of worrying about the well-being of a cow or any animal. The ASPCA also agrees with what the human society has to say. The ASPCA agrees that the rate in which animal abuse is going is way too high. Animal abuse does not just have to be about physically hurting an animal. This could also mean neglecting it. An animal is just like any human. It loves being shown it is cared about and...
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...PUT AN END TO Animal Abuse Animal testing is animal cruelty. I am an animal lover and also the adopted mother to a short hair tabby named Dutch. When I look at my cat I see a living being. In feel his energy, I feel a soul. Why is it that their lives are looked upon as less valuable than ours? People who run experiments and tests on animals should be punished the same as those who mistreat and/or are cruel to animals. YES, I believe all animal testing should be banned in the United States. These animals do not have the answers. They cannot even speak for themselves to express how they feel. They are in no position to give their consent to have experiments preformed on them. These animals are living creatures as we are and they should be treated as such. They deserve a loving, caring, and safe place to call home. As I researched this topic I came across a lot of material about the testing of cosmetics on animals. I guess people are blind to the fact that it is not just cosmetics that are tested on animals but household products and many other substances as well. “In the cosmetics and household products research, painful experiments are carried out on hundreds of thousands of animals every year around the world, including dogs, rabbits, pigs, mice, rats, guinea-pigs, fish and birds. This includes tests for skin or eye irritation, skin sensitization (allergy), toxicity (poisoning), mutagenicity (genetic damage), teratogenicity (birth defects), carcinogenicity...
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...United States animals are beaten, neglected, or forced to struggle for survival. Left in unsanitary conditions with no food or water, they have little hope as they live out their days without the compassion they deserve. Some are found and rescued, given the chance to experience how great life and humans can be; others aren't so lucky. To grow as a nation, we must fight for these abused animals' rights and severely punish heartless owners. It is up to us to speak for these creatures who lack a voice, for who will if we don't? One of the first steps in protecting animals and creating effective cruelty laws is knowing what animal cruelty actually is. There are two categories: passive cruelty and active cruelty. The first involves acts of omission, meaning the abuse happens as a result of neglect or lack of action. Passive cruelty might seem less serious, but that is not the case; it can lead to terrible pain and suffering, and ultimately death. Examples include starvation, dehydration, untreated parasite infestations, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and the failure to get medical care. Passive cruelty is sometimes due to the owner's ignorance, so many animal control officers will first try to educate neglectful owners on how to properly care for animals before giving them a citation or placing them under arrest. Active cruelty, on the other hand, is more well known and disturbing. Sometimes referred to as non-accidental injury, this type of abuse involves purposefully...
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...One of the first steps in protecting animals and creating effective cruelty laws is knowing what animal cruelty actually is. There are two categories: passive cruelty and active cruelty. The first involves acts of omission, meaning the abuse happens as a result of neglect or lack of action. Passive cruelty might seem less serious, but that is not the case; it can lead to terrible pain and suffering, and ultimately death. Examples include starvation, dehydration, untreated parasite infestations, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and the failure to get medical care. Passive cruelty is sometimes due to the owner's ignorance, so many animal control officers will first try to educate neglectful owners on how to properly care for animals before giving them a citation or placing them under arrest. Active cruelty, on the other hand, is more well known and disturbing. Sometimes referred to as non-accidental injury, this type of abuse involves purposefully inflicting harm on an animal in order to feel more powerful or gain control. Active cruelty against animals should be taken very seriously, since it can be a sign that a person has serious psychological issues and may commit more acts of violence – possibly against humans. It is hard to tell just what drives people to harm innocent animals. “According to a 1997 study done by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Northeastern University, animal abusers are five times more likely...
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...2013 Do we really love animals? The truth behind animal research and testing Animal research and testing has been a huge controversial topic in the U.S. For many years, lots of organizations like PETA have created movements to eliminate this completely but without very much success. Personally, I can’t find any positives to animal research and testing but the majority of the U.S population does since animals are used in most major companies and research projects performed by doctors. Animal testing should be eliminated altogether. To begin, doctors race to find a cure to many illnesses that come up with humans. They work long and hard trying to figure out a way to stop diseases and illnesses but how are they so sure that it’ll work and not affect a human negatively when they are exposed to it? That’s where the animals come in. People are putting animal’s lives at risk just to save humans. Is it really fair? In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Animal Welfare Act also known as the Laboratory Welfare Act. Although by passing this law, the population was tricked into thinking that animals would be safe and better accommodated. Little did they know, the real terms of this act. The Animal Welfare Act only regulates cage size, cleanliness, and food and water, but does not limit the procedures that can be done to the animals. (Animal 1) This is the only act in the U.S that tries to make acceptable standards for the treatment of animals during research and testing...
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...Animal Abuse Within Slaughterhouses A study conducted by the Humane Society of the United States showed that 9.2 billion animals are slaughtered every year in the United States alone. When animals are in these slaughterhouses they are abused in many different ways: they are crammed into tight places, they are tortured, and they are given growth hormones that can cause painful deaths for the animals. Many people never consider animal abuse when they think about slaughterhouses because they are not aware that there are painful ways to slaughter an animal. Animals that are raised for slaughter are constantly crammed into tight places and most of the time are hardly able to move due to the amount of animals in the small space they are provided....
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...There are two forms of animal cruelty, animal abuse and then animal neglect. Under animal abuse there is physical abuse which includes: inbreeding, assault, restriction of movement, trapping, burning, drowning, incorrect methods of training, poisoning, suffocation, crowded transportation, shooting, animal fighting, fireworking [trying to kill animals with fireworks (Maher & Pierpoint,2012)], mulitation [to deprive a limb], and bestialy [having sex with animals] (Patronek, 1997). Animal neglect is when animals are left without food, or water for a duration of time, lack of vet care when the animal is obviously hurt or sick, poor body condition, poor sanitation, lack of grooming, and animal hoarding is another form of animal neglect. “Animal...
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...and starved animals how can this happen? Doesn’t it break your heart just seeing those rescued animals? We don't see any commercials about slaughter houses. Those animals are beaten and inhumanely killed everyday and the public is not aware of this.That’s why people don’t know much about animal cruelty and think it’s okay to eat them.Animal abuse and neglect is an issue that not everyone looks at or pays attention to,this is due to people not being informed of the kind of abuse that pets,farm animals and wildlife animals go through.People also need to know the effects of animals abuse on the animals and in general and on society.If a human abuses animals of any kind in anyway then...
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...Determination of Animal Abuse Jennifer Stafford Determination of Animal Abuse People and animals have been around since the beginning of time. In early days, animals were killed and hunted for survival. However, the relationship between people and animals has changed somewhat since then. Today, the vast majority of people do not need to kill and hunt animals in order to survive. In this paper, I will talk about how some people think that animal-factory farms, family farms and hunting is considered animal abuse. I will then later explain that neither of these is considered animal abuse. Therefore, the question is, how does one determine what actually animal abuse is? There is a massive debate about this question and there is no right answer. Everyone sees things from the perspective of their own interests and concerns. Animal abuse is classified as inflicting physical agony, anguish or demise upon an animal contingent upon one’s belief. First, some people believe that killing and hunting animals for any reason is classified as animal abuse. The first example some may classify as animal abuse is animal-factory farms. Animal-factory “farms are usually large industrial facilities where livestock are crowded together” (USA Today, 2012). The small animals, like chickens, are put into cages. One cage can hold many animals. These cages are packed so full with the small animals that the animals cannot move freely. They do not get to see sunlight, and it can be hard to breathe...
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...Animal abuse contributes to poverty, global warming, deforestation, and extinction of species. It affects the whole planet, so why isn’t it talked about as much as it should be? Many people say animal abuse is wrong but not many people are willing to do anything about it. The purpose of animal abuse laws is to prevent people from harming animals for fun or malicious reasons, but why doesn’t it apply to all animals? Factory animals such as cows, pigs and chickens don’t seem to apply to these animal abuse laws; it seems the meat industry has immunity. Even though things like slaughterhouses make it easy for the public to get their meat it contributes to other problems, and there is no such thing as a humane way to kill. Despite the overwhelming...
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...ACT IVITY 1 a) Animal abuse does not only hurt the animals; it affects the entire community as well. Animal abuse usually goes hand in hand with domestic violence; In an abusive home the pet will often be used by the abuser as ways to manipulate and take advantage of the victim’s concern by threatening to harm the animal to stop the victim from reporting the incidence. By hurting the animals, an abuser is sending the message that a human victim could be next. Many people who are involved in violence (serial killings) have a history from their childhood of participating in animal abuse; the animal abuser usually grows up to be violent and turn to killing not just animals but people too, thus increasing the crime levels and making the community...
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...Did you know that according to the Delaware Action For Animals, more than 40 million animals are killed each year for fun? That means that animal families, babies, and kids are killed each year. This is called animal abuse. To me this is wrong and animals deserve a life just like other people. Pretend you are in a jungle and you are with your family. It is peaceful. A guy pops out and starts trying to kill your family. Your whole family starts dying and then you get shot. Most people would be scared, sad, and worried. This is probably what animals feel like when they are being hunted. One reason why people abuse animals is to hunt for fun and to make money or decorations. For example, people cut off chimps hands and sell them for souvenirs. Imagine people killed you, sold your hands for money, and people bought them for souvenirs. When people go hunting after they also skin the animals or stuff them so they can have decorations on their wall. Many people do this so people think that they are cool. According to peta.org 40 percent of hunters slaughter millions of animals on public land every year. Hunters who make decorations out of dead animals are terribly cruel because they are taking away lives from innocent animals. Cutting off animal heads to hang on the wall is very weird and strange....
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...new news report shows someone abusing an animal or an undercover investigation exposes a dog or cock fighting ring where animals are abused so they perform whichever way the owner wants. Whenever there is money to be made off of animals, wheather it be from gambeling, a road side zoo, a circus with animals performing tricks there is 100% animal abuse. It does not matter the level because the only way to get animals to do things that are not natural to them is to beat them into doing it. Animal abuse occurs with every hour of everyday in the United States. No species of animal seems to be immune from this cruelty: from companion animals to circus animals to farmed animals, animal abuse is an increasingly concerning issue....
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...Study of Animal Abuse in Singapore 1 Introduction “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animal is treated “This is a quote made by the famous Mahatma Gandhi, who believed in the rights of animals. Humans are stronger and more intelligent than Animals but sadly , they use their power wrongly . Animals are abused, tortured and deprived of their basic needs even though they feel pain and fear just like us (Donaldson, 2014) .. Animal Abuse are prevalent even in developed countries such as Singapore. This paper presents information and raise the public awareness on Animal Abuse in the world, particularly in Singapore. This paper will cover the definition of Animal Abuse , types and cases of Animal Abuse...
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...Every day animals are beaten, neglected, or forced to struggle for survival. Animal abuse is an issue that is extremely prevalent in our world today. Although the type of abuse, and the animals may vary from country to country we cannot discount the pain felt by these animals. There is also a direct link between violence against animals and violence against humans. If looked at this way then if we start to reduce the amount of animals abused it would also be a big step forward for reducing the number of people abused as well. Animal abuse is a phenomenon that occurs internationally and the general public needs to take every measure in their power to if possible completely stop it. To develop and grow as a global community, we must fight for...
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