Against Animal Cruelty

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Every day in New Zealand Animals are being neglected, beaten or forced to struggle for survival. They are left in unsanitary conditions with no food or water. These poor animals have little hope of survival as they live out their days without the compassion they deserve. Put yourself in these animals’ situations, then you would soon realise that this is animal cruelty. Yes I am going to be speaking to you about animal cruelty. The Modern day society definition of animal cruelty is the infliction of suffering or harm upon animals for purposes other than self-defence or survival. Firstly I am going to be talking about the most publicised form of animal cruelty that nearly everyone has heard about … this is animals being used for cosmetic testing. Estimates say that between 40-70 million animals are being used in experiments each year. It is impossible to know the exact number as in the United States of America where the majority of the experiments are happening it is not required by law to report how many birds, reptiles, cats or dogs are used. Animals that are unfortunate enough that they end up having a short life as 50% of the animals will die within 3 weeks of an experiment. Many labs end up shocking, burning, torturing or starving animals without pain relief, an example of this is baby mice enduring severed ligaments for up to 6 weeks without pain relief. One of the things with animal testing is that it is not tested on humans so the reaction to human could be different to an animal. In my eyes this method is unreliable and inefficient. My Opinion is that animals’ being tested on is inhumane as these innocent animals are locked in cages and are only taken out if they are dead or being experimented. My second point on why animal cruelty is about dog fighting. Statistics say that there are over 50, 000 dog fighting operations happening around

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