Animal Abuse and Cruelty

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Introduction.

Animal cruelty has always been happening. Since ancient times, people didn't have the culture of taking care of animals and still today that we have the knowledge and every kind of source of information, it is currently happening worldwide. This is a very unfortunate situation, because just as we do, they also feel pain; sadly a lot of people do not understand the fact, or they just don't care.
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings (Chavez, 1999).
Clearly, I'm not the only one against animal abuse; there's many people fighting to end this awful thing, we need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves (Montero, 2000).
As Ghandi once said “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” (Gandhi, 1937). A person or a whole nation can be defined by the way they treat animals, their whole personality can be judged by the simple fact of mistreating an animal, they don't get that they are just like us emotionally speaking. They also feel! I'd like to make people change their minds about animals and make them start loving them just as they love their family members or friends. Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals (Kundera, 2002).

How would you feel if they mistreated you, hit you, kicked you, and mad...

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...d defeat abusers for good. Animals will always thank us, and it will feel good to know that we did something for our planet, and for the ones who need us the most. Animals have the same right to live freely. Don´t let people make it seem like it is something normal and something that should be accepted by the society. We need to do something before it is too late.
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them. (Shaw, Man and Superman, 1999).

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