...laws to in order to prevent animal abuse. Although they exist, they are not strict enough to thoroughly prevent cruelty. In the State of New York, unnecessary pain towards animals has been reduced by a anti-cruelty laws (State of New York 1). Although these laws exist, many tend to not include animal testing as a result of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Jerrold Tannenbaum is a professor at the UC Davis School. According to Tannenbaum, animals are commonly classified as property rather than living things, which is what they are (Tannenbaum 2). Historically, animals were considered chattel (Tannenbaum 13). According to Tannenbaum, animals will always remain as property legally. Various states have amended laws to allow felony convictions (Tannenbaum 40)....
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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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...a certain punishment. Also like law enforcement, they sometimes go outside those guidelines to accomplish a certain goal. The animal cruelty charge for instance has a sentence of three months in jail but if it is a repeat offender, it can go higher. A judge in Baltimore went outside the guidelines because of the suspect behavior and the sheer disregard for life. This judge has stirred up some controversy with his decision. Was the judge right to sentence this Baltimore cop outside the guidelines while assaults against humans get an insignificant punishment? Montgomery County Judge Richard E. Jordan sentenced a Baltimore Police Officer Alec Taylor to a year in jail for an animal cruelty charge because he was disgusted by the actions of the officer. Police are supposed to held to a higher standard since they are a public servant and swore to protect life. Officer Taylor assaulted “Rocko,” a Jack Russell with a mop and then strangled the dog until he was not breathing. The controversy over this decision brought up in the article is how did Taylor get a year when another officer is suspended with pay for beating a man near a bus stop? Some people think that the some punishments are too lenient on criminals that choose to harm another person and get to go home at the end of the trial. In this case, I agree with the judge but at the same time, I also agree with the controversy. I think that the punishments for animal cruelty are too lenient especially since the animal feels the same...
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...1013.087 9 December 2010 Cruelty towards Animals and Their Rights If killing animals was entertaining to the people by abusing them and possibly causing them to fight, would you join the cruel humans that are doing this just to have fun watching animals fight and be abused? Animal cruelty comes in different ways from animal abuse, fighting the animals, and even mistreating them. Cruelty to animals is growing all over the United States even out of the US, especially dog fighting and cock fighting has grown dramatically. Animals used for other purposes are being abused more. The poor animals feel pain and suffer every time they are killed or mistreated. Even though my own father commits animal cruelty, still does not change the way I feel towards animal cruelty. My father thinks it is not bad to fight roosters, but I always tell him that fighting them is very cruel to the rooster. Two main animals used for fighting are roosters and dogs. They are trained and forced to fight each other to death, which cock fighters find interesting and gamble their money. Animal Rights and Human Obligations Second Edition, Ed. by Tom Regan and Peter singer, specifies the rights of animals, treatment of animals, killing and value of life of animals, etc. It has various authors on each specific topic that makes it more interesting. I argue that animals should be given their rights and not be tortured by humans for no apparent reason...
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...found eating other dogs just to stay alive, and carcasses were scattered all across the area. A sheriff announced that the feces was said to be “ankle deep” in certain parts of the house. The owner was later arrested and charged with only two misdemeanors. I believe we the people could prevent these kind of acts from happening so often. No matter how gruesome of an act it is, animal abuse is only a Class A misdemeanor unless the offender has two prior convictions. Although as of September 1, 2001, people who committed acts of cruelty or the torture of animals can receive worse punishments. The maximum sentence would be tried as a felony with up to $10,000 in fines and or two years in jail. In Houston today, we have Houston SPCA Cruelty Investigators which receive over 8,500 calls per year about animal abuse, neglect, and cruelty. These six investigators are extremely committed and take their job very seriously, no matter what the cost. The SPCA also works nationwide with law enforcement officials and other humane organizations for aid in certain cases. Although there are many cases in which the punishment should be more harsh, there is a specific one that touched people’s hearts. A ten month old puppy was dropped off at the Operation Kindness shelter by two men that found her stranded near their apartment. The dog was terrified, sixty percent of her body was covered with burns, and she even had stab wounds in some areas. Neighbors claimed that the dog’s owner was Deshann Quatrail...
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...heard of animal abuse, we will know that it is about animal being deliberately harmed. Nowadays, animal abuse has become a nationwide problem that grows rapidly. You can see that millions of animal was beaten, starved and being helpless every day and died each year from a ruthless master through the news coverage. This shows that animal abuse proves to be an important topic and a widely known for every people. There are many reasons and motives behind animal cruelty that have been exposed. These include apathy towards suffering of the animals, giving pain and suffering to animals from some specific benefit or hurting animals for the pleasure, etc. Animal abuse can be classified into two categories which are active abuse and passive abuse. Firstly are active abuses that are direct cruelty to animals. It is individual that tries to harm animal, like torturing or beating. Next is passive abuse that includes lack of care or negligence towards pets. Generally, this is the situation when pet owners did not aware and bother to take proper care of the pet’s needs. In the other way, we must not forget intensity of incidence or incidence of smaller can also be regarded as the example of animal cruelty. Animals are not happy in the places that they are treated cruelty and poorly and have no rights as they should. In this century, a lot of people do not understand what happens to animals that are used for experiments in company or industry. The main problem of animal test is the animal usually...
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...thousands of mistreated animals. Since animals do not have a voice of their own, they cannot defend themselves. Animal cruelty is immorally disturbing which is why these poor, innocent creatures deserve more rights. Providing care and protection should an ethical and moral obligation, because as you should see not enough is being done. Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main categories, either active or passive. Passive cruelty, or acts of omission, is animal neglect. Examples are starvation, parasite infestations, dehydration, allowing a collar to grow into an animal’s skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when medical attention is needed. Active cruelty, or acts of commission, implies malicious intent in which a person has deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal. This behavior is often associated with sociopathic behavior and tendencies. Another disturbing behavior is a paraphilia called bestiality, also known as zoophilia. In a simple sense, bestiality involves intercourse with an animal and includes oral genital contact of any kind between humans and animals. Shockingly, this act is legal in several states. The common sexually abused animals are: cats, dogs, sheep, cows, hens, rabbits, goats, ducks, horses, bulls, and fish. All these animals are accessible, which is why they are commonly abused. Bestiality is considered abuse because it is forced sex. Some animals are owned for only one...
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...is harmed and by how much? a. Market Stakeholders: (1) Employees of the animal facility: The current employees of the animal facilities will no longer feel at risk doing day-to-day operations, when dealing with animals, due to the proposed bill. High Impact (2) Employee Managers of the animal facility: The managers of the employees will no longer have to worry about company policies being recorded for lawsuits, reducing the stress on the managers. High Impact (3) Stockholders: Stockholders of the animal facility will no longer have to worry about the company having to pay large court fees and litigation expenses due to lawsuits of unethical behavior because of pictures or videos of poor treatment of animals. Medium Impact (4) Customers: Customers will realize lower prices for the meat produced at the animal facilities due to the lower amounts the business will be spending on lawsuits. Medium Impact. (5) Suppliers: Suppliers to the animal facilities will also face lower risks of being sued for animal cruelty due to the proposed bill. High Impact (6) Retailers/wholesalers: Retailers of the finished goods will still be able to sell the finished meat products to customers. Low Impact. Creditors: Lower risk of lawsuits will lower the risk of the business not being able to pay its bills. Medium Impact. b. Non-Market Stakeholders: Communities: higher risk of animal cruelty taking place at the animal facilities, and could cause strain on communities. Low Impact. Nongovernmental...
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...ahh over a dog playing in the theatre, but wouldn’t dream of going to see an animal performing in a circus…” (Gardner, L. 2014). So, should animals be used in the Theatre and the Entertainment Industry? This essay discusses the history of animals performing within a theatre or circus, the representation of animals within a performance, whether it is humane or inhumane for animals to be apart of the entertainment industry and should animals continue performing in theatres and the entertainment industry. Animals that perform within the theatre and entertainment industry can be traced back to Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. However, travelling performances, such as circuses, gained popularity in the...
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...Animal cruelty Recently a series of cat-abused cases had infuriated all walks of lives in Hong Kong. Actually the cases of animal abuse are rising unceasingly in these years. The former chief of Health and Food Bureau Dr. York Chow Yat-ngok(2011) claimed that it had received 534 complaints related to animal abuse in 2011,which was the three times of the 187 cases in 2008. There are three major causes lead to animal abuse. Firstly, it may relate to the broken childhood of abusers. According to an article, a former animal abuser, who killed three dogs when he was young, said the roaring of dogs always scared him when he was still a child. Therefore, when he grows up, he showed hatred towards dogs. A foreign psychologist revealed that a large part of animal abusers had the experience of suffering from domestic violence in their childhood. The hatred make them become abusive to others especially defenseless animals in their later lives. Secondly, there are too many stray animals in Hong Kong. Some volunteers feed stray animals regularly. Street animals then always gather on the street and lead to hygiene problems and aroused discontent of citizens. Thirdly, some immature teens abuse animals just for fun. It seems to be a trend recently that record the process of abusing animals and then put the clip on YouTube, and gaining the sense of pride by accumulating the clicks. To make it clear, before searching the solution of relieving the animal abuse problem, we need...
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...its citizens and districts. Panem and its rulers in the capitol have no quarrel with using even the most extreme of measures including, one of the major plot devices of the trilogy, forcing children to fight to the death in what is known as The Hunger Games. The capital believes their cruelty...
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...should be doing more to prevent animal cruelty. Everyday, all over the world, animals are mistreated and abused by incompetent, cruel owners; often just to satisfy human pleasures. We are supporting the abuse and ignoring simple rights that they should have. For instance, do you agree that a dog has the right not to have pain inflicted on him or her unnecessarily? Infuriating and heartbreaking: we are still standing by and allowing this to happen. It is even more sickening when we realise that, everyday, ignoring the cat down the street being kicked by its owner or selecting what perfume or make-up to buy in our favourite shop- we may actually be contributing to the abuse of animals. Whether, a neglectful owner or science technician, we must do more to reduce this horrible reality. A huge number of the domestic animals are suffering in terrible conditions. Domestic abuse is prevalent in all areas of society today. Millions of domestic animals never know a caring human touch and live hard lives on the street before dying painful deaths. The three most common pets abused are dogs, cats and horses. To put this into a shocking reality, in the year 2007, the internet source buzzle.com, declared that a dreadful 64.5 percent of dogs were reported with some sort of abuse, 18 percent of cats suffered at the hands of mindless humans and 25 percent of other animal species[->0] were reported to have undergone some sort of cruelty. This is in comparison to the total...
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...federal laws that regulates de liability of the owners of an animal, punishes abuse or protects the integrity of domestic animals, all that has been created so far are measures in the penal code of different states that aren’t very useful due to the unnecessary complexity in the structure of the law that result in judges not understanding them, forgetting their existence of the law or simply decide to ignore them. That’s why the government should decree laws at federal level that protect animals against mistreatment, grant them safety, dignity and a rightful treatment. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), there are 3 million dogs in Estado de Mexico; 1 dog per 5 people. The terrifying data comes from the Adoption Center and Animal Rescue AC: there’s an estimate that 7 out of 10 dogs are victims of abuse and neglect. When they talk about abuse and neglect it does not only relate to dogs on the street, it is also consider those with home. Every year a million pets (dogs and cats) suffer from mistreatment. Statistics from an animal protection organization called Milagros Caninos located in Mexico City shows that a hundred percent of the dogs they’ve given shelter to, suffered from mistreat, torture, rape and vexation. In the last decades, sociocultural factors have increased the interest at correcting this unnecessary harm to animals; citizen initiatives (partnerships and animal shelters, collecting signatures, demonstrations) and academic...
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...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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...Lynchings In America Lynching is an punishment by an informal group most often used for public executions by a mob. Lynching was in order to punish alleged transgressors,or to intimidate a minority group. Victims of lynchings were tortured and hanged to death, his body would often also be hung up for display. Many lynchings became a public event that many would attend to. Most of the time the guilt of the victim had not been proven in a court of law. In the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people opposing slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War. The cruelty of lynchings in the 1900s negatively affected black communities and demonstrated the true depth of racism. The cruelty of lynchings can have and cause psychological scarrings. Alleged victims had to go through so much torture and suffering because of the color of their skin. Value should not placed on a person's life because of skin color. Lynchings were made acceptable because it was looked at as “protecting the southern women from animals”. “The...
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