Essay On Animal Cruelty

Some people believe that animal cruelty consists mainly of people actively being unkind to animals. That is not all there is to animal cruelty. There are in fact, many forms of animal cruelty, not all of which are widely known by the majority of the human population. These forms include animal testing, animal abuse, fur farming, vivisection, puppy mills, and many more. While some laws and organizations exist to help prevent animal cruelty, lack of awareness surrounding animal cruelty issues has allowed many forms of animal cruelty to continue without an attempt of being stopped. One of the biggest issues for animal cruelty is the lack of awareness.

Animal testing is one form of animal cruelty that should be illegal because it is inhumane,

Thousands of years ago, humans began to use animals for the purpose of research that could save human lives. This research quickly evolved into experimentation which leads us to now where animal experimentation means animals being poisoned, vivisection, and animals being bred and sold to laboratories to suffer through their lives and die in a cage. Animal experimentation has exceeded its goal of protecting human lives. Now, millions of animals are kept in poor conditions to test pointless things such as make-up and hair products that only help people make more money than they already are. Is all the money really worth the pain and suffering of all of the animals that are associated with animal testing? In the end, Animal testing is a moral dilemma with which each person must come to terms with on their

Vivisection and fur farming are two closely related cruel actions that are performed for the benefit of human beings. Vivisection used to mean “the dissection of a live animal, usually for the purpose of teaching or research” (The Gale Encyclopedia of Science). Now, it has come to be known as “a time-tested tool that has helped humans understand how the bodies of animals function, how disease alters that function, and how such diseases can be treated” (The Gale Encyclopedia of Science). Fur farms are dismal, often filthy places where thousands of animals are usually kept in wire cages for their entire lives. They are where 85% of the fur industries skins come from. The animals there suffer from similar conditions of the animals at factory farms and slaughterhouses where animals are raised for food. Their methods are designed to maximize profits, often at the expense of the well-being of the animals. Sadly, there are no federal humane slaughter laws that protect animals on fur factory farms, so killing methods are gruesome. Some animals even wake up when they are being skinned. Different types of killing methods include genital electrocution, poison, and