It is a fact that millions of animals are killed every year simply for the purpose of using their fur or skin for clothing. These animals are likely to suffer a cruel death either through electrocution or having their neck broken. Some of them are gassed, poisoned or even clubbed to death. Either way the fact still remains that these animals are treated to horrific conditions. On fur farms where animals are raised for the purpose of using their fur for clothing; they are placed in filthy, overcrowded wire cages until they are sooner or later killed for their fur.
Firstly, keeping animals in captivity promotes animal abuse. Animals in circuses are used for entertainment purposes. They are tortured with inhumane methods such as beating and using electrical prod to make sure they perform well in training and shows. This is because businesses focus more on profit making rather than the animals’ welfare. According to Mayra Calvani in her journal in World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) mentioned that in Latin America and Europe, around 250,000 bulls die per year due to tortured and killed for entertainment purpose especially in bullfighting.
For a while there was a slight decrease in the number of horses being slaughtered here in the United States. Many people are strongly against the idea of slaughtering horses, but when you stand back and look at the big picture we may actually benefit if we reopened U.S. slaughter houses. Firstly, when people want to get rid of a horse sometimes they send it to auction. Most auctions are not happy places. If you’ve ever been to one, you walk around and notice how fatigued and unpleasant most of the horses appear.
(Herald Sun, 2013) Many thoroughbreds are killed that are no longer required and cannot be given to other people as “hacks.” Some of these horses are given a second chance as jumps horses. If jumps’ racing was not opportunity for these, there would be a likely increase in the number of horses being disposed of (Biggs, 2014.) A significant number of old retired jumpers are living a life of luxury (Herald Sun, 2013) These horses are more than likely re-homed at the end of their racing career because they can compete as a show jumper or a three-day eventer says Frances Nelson Q.C, Thoroughbred racing SA chairman (T Habel,
Animal cruelty needs to stop and if farmers aren’t willing to stop the nasty, brutal way they are killing animals, then what we can do is stop buying meat. Maybe not all at once but we could slowly stop buying so much. Along with that, we would also need to stop going to zoos and circuses. A lot of people think animals do not have feelings, but they do. They know when someone is being nice or being mean.
Government figures show that three million animals per year in the UK alone are poisoned, surgically injured, driven insane, burned, irradiated, starved, electrocuted, kept in solitary confinement and eventually killed all in the name of research, in experiments that most people would find hard to even imagine. Indeed, the torture that laboratory animals are subjected to would be illegal under any other premise. Yet the military, pharmaceutical industry, universities, private research groups, charitable organisations and energy companies continue to carry out these daily atrocities with government and public support. In a nation of animal lovers, it is difficult to accept that were the public actually aware of the systematic and brutal conduct that these animals are subjected to, they would still be indifferent to or in favour of vivisection. Unfortunately though, the cruelty and suffering that is so rife in laboratories is always hidden from public
One of the ways Kim Jong-Il and Napoleon from Animal Farm are similar is that they both rule by fear. Speaking out against the actions of Napoleon or Kim Jong-Il can lead to very serious consequences. In North Korea speaking bad of “The Dear Leader’ can either get you killed or you and your whole family could end up in a work camp. Ending up in work camp causes you and your family to stay there for 3 generations. Having these work camps and hearing of all the bad things that go on in there makes the people think twice about speaking out against the government.
But they don’t get that! Because of those selfish people who only thinks about their own selfish things, Furthermore, pet abandonment is one of the types of Animal Cruelty. Millions of pets are abandoned every year and a total of 32.2% of them around the world. People keep breeding more puppies to try and make money out of it, and other people reward them for this by paying them for these puppies when they could instead save an innocent dog from death by adopting. Other thing is, I don’t get it how people wants to have a pet but don’t look after them properly.
The little problem is that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (know world-wide as PETA) aren’t happy about it at all. They come to shows and try to do everything they can to ruin them and display to people their position. So is it good or bad? Right or wrong? It’s a hard question with a lot pros and cons depending on the way you look at it.
Sheep and cows are bred and slaughtered; foxes and rabbits caged and killed, wild animals shot or trapped, to make clothes and shoes from their skin and fur. People need to protect themselves from the elements, but this doesn't provide justification for depriving animals of their freedom and life, especially when there are so many animal-free alternatives available to us. Many of us have seen shocking images of animals suffering in cages on fur farms or being gassed, electrocuted or skinned alive. As a result many people now reject fur. However, leather and sheepskin continue to be in high demand.