In a world burdened with a growing population, animals will inevitably fade into the background. Yet the depths of cruelty into which hu...
The most common cases of domestic animal abuse are neglect and abandonment. Often, people pick up a pet without considering the long-term consequences. Then, when the first hot flush is over, they find in their hands an animal that is not only cuddly sweet, but also a high degree of responsibility and care. As a result, the animals are left on the open road to smash their way through on their own, or left in a locked apartment without food, water or heat.
Pets are not used to taking care of themselves; they wander around in absolute shock and in absolute sorrow, terrorized by the world outside or starving slowly in the confines of the house without realizing what they have done wrong to deserve such treatment. In both cases, they die in agony. Sometimes an owner does something "human" and leaves his pet in a shelter where it is euthanized. The term "euthanasia" means that the animal is old or sick and can no longer recover and must be euthanized in order to minimize its suffering. In reality, strong and healthy pets are cruelly killed in ways that exceed any imagination.
In America, animals are put into metal or wooden crates, even into used, sometimes glowingly hot oil barrels, into which carbon dioxide is pumped. The animals suffocate in agony. Sometimes they are killed by an electric shock or put alive in freezers. Many helpless animals are often shot in front of other animals. Often the pets are dragged to death screaming in fear, clawing each other and hurting each other in their desperate attempt to escape death.
This is the "humane" face of animal abuse. There are also other faces, right in front of our noses. In the United States, millions of vertebrates are used for laboratory testing every year. The animals are burned, blinded, mutilated, injected with deadly infections, gassed and much more. This is done in the name of research into medicines, cosmetics and other household appliances. The animals are dissected without adequate anesthesia so that medical students can learn their craft. Every year, hundreds of thousands of animals are bred and killed to use their body parts for research when human tissue, which is actually really useful material, is burned.People who consider themselves animal lovers and buy a pet can contribute to animal abuse, albeit unintentionally. The cute animals, which are available in zoo shops or pet shops, are usually produced in mills where unscrupulous breeders keep breeding the females until they can no longer, and then they are killed. Through indiscriminate breeding, puppies are born with genetic defects. Once they are born, the puppies are put in cages where they can hardly stand and sent to shops.
A large part of the dog population are strays. While dealing with them remains a problem, most countries use methods that are unacceptable to human values - poisoning, shooting and electric shocks, to name a few. It seems that castration or castration is too annoying for some cruel people; killing defenceless animals is the simpler and cheaper option.
Sometimes there is a story on TV that shows a circus animal that has escaped. Unlike their human counterparts, the animals do not choose to perform in a circus. They are forced to do so under torture - they cause fear. Elephants are routinely beaten with bull hooks, causing them to scream and bleed. They are also pierced with electric nudion. In addition, horses are stung and whipped with dung forks and punched in the face, and their lips are painfully twisted to ensure total control.
Animals such as big cats and chimpanzees are kicked and beaten. Apart from that, the animals are transported in boxes under extreme climatic conditions. They are denied food and water. Sometimes animals spend their whole lives in shackles. Tigers, bears and other large animals are crammed into cages where they have to share the place, and are forced to eat, drink, coin and urinate in the same place. Elephant babies that have not yet been weaned from their mothers are sold.
Because America is a country with high meat consumption, there are many slaughterhouses. Apart from the problems caused by untrained butchers causing contamination, cruelty to the animals to be killed is widespread. They are lifted up by the legs, pierced directly into the heart, beaten with purzel trees, slit the throat, the spinal cord pierced or driven to the skull with a blunt instrument. All this happens while the animal is still alive, conscious and terrorized. Because horsemeat is banned in the United States, it is shipped to Canada and other countries to be slaughtered.
Apart from everyday life, in which animals, although an integral part of society, are subjected to unspeakable cruel practices, other forms of social demands, made entirely by man, expose animals even more to torture and cruelty. Two of the most guilty areas are fashion and greed.
Furs are something every vain woman will desire. Each bit of fur not only takes an innocent life away; it takes it away in the most gruesome manner possible. Fur farms use the cheapest way possible to kill an animal, so they are often beaten to death, suffocated or bled until they die. The animals are also skinned alive and then left to die a slow and agonizing death.
Animals are trapped in the wild where they suffer shock from blood loss, dehydration, gangrene and frostbite. Steel traps often cut through the bone and conibear traps crush their necks with pressure of 90 pounds or more per square inch. Water set traps leave beavers, muskrats and other animals to die while struggling for more than nine minutes before they drown. An animal which is being targeted for fur cannot hope for a merciful death by a bullet, as that will damage its pelt. If found alive, it will be clubbed to death instead.
Baby seals are hooked and dragged to boats while still conscious. They are often bludgeoned to death with metal clubs by barbarians. Their carcass is left to rot, as there is no market for the meat. They are yet to start swimming or eat their first solid food. As there is a ban on a few animal trapping, such as fox for instance, the babies die a horrendously cruel and needless death, so that some vain woman may wrap herself up in fur.
Another source of fur is rabbit, which are often 'farmed' for the purpose. They are made to stay in wire cages which cause blisters on their feet. Most of these innocent, beautiful, precious creatures are skinned alive by barbarians. Their fur is cruelly plucked from their body, leaving the rabbits in shock and agony. The French breed of Angora rabbit has its fur removed this way.
Fur is... Legally Cruel. No laws stop the suffering of animals on 'fur farms.' Only you can help them. Please don't buy fur coats or products with fur trim.
Whales are stabbed to death, or harpooned through their flesh and dragged along the boat. They are animals which flee from their hunters until they are too tired. These creatures are targeted because of their blubber, while the meat is thrown away. Even the poor dolphins are brutally slaughtered each year. Their blood turns the seawater red.
Sadistic humans use animals for blood sports, confining domesticated or pet animals and killing them where they are unable to flee. They sexually abuse animals by penetrating them, causing serious tears in their anal ducts. Furthering the human perversion are crush videos, where a deadly woman is seen crushing a small animal to death with her spiked heels, all in the name of sexual gratification. Animals are regularly used in blood sports, again in the name of gratification of the senses, where they are made to injure, maim, and kill each other.
A society that fails to protect defenseless animals is a sick and evil society. A society that necessitates killing of innocent creatures goes beyond that. In order to promote free and fair living conditions for humans, cruelty towards animals need to be stopped, unequivocally. The animals deserve better and we do too.
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