What are animal rights? It’s the right believed to animals to live free from medical research, hunting and violence. Throughout the world animals are being abused and exploited for our own pleasure. They are persecuted for hunting, leaving them dead or wounded. Animal research and experimentations are frequently being practiced in today’s society, and the animals are being tortured and heartlessly killed. Animals are wrongly forced into mistreatment, animal rights should annihilate the problems with animal abuse, hunting, and experimentation.
All animals should have the right to roam freely without being pursued and/or killed. Hunters cause injuries, pain and suffering to defenseless animals, they destroy their families and home, and leave frightened baby animals behind to starve to death. The damage that hunting inflicts on animals is terrible-the noise, fear, and the constant chase. This horrific hobby is permitted on 60 percent of U. S. public lands, more than 200 million animals are killed every year (“Anti-Hunting”) Hunting is often called a “sport,” to camouflage a cruel, and needless killing spree.
The annual death toll in the U. S. includes 42 million mourning doves, 30 million squirrels, 28 million quail, 25 million rabbits, 6 million deer, and thousands of helpless animals (“Anti-Hunting”). Wildlife population is an excuse for killing-hunting, trapping and fishing for fun. In deed starvation and disease are unfortunate, but it’s nature’s way of keeping the strong alive. Hunters, however, kill any animal whose head they think would look good on their wall.
Hunters want us to believe that killing animals controls the population, but how can this be possible if the state wildlife agencies intentionally keep the deer population high, for hunters (“Anti-Hunting”). Not only is hunting repulsive, but it has contributed to the historical extinction of animal species around the world, including the Southern Appalachian birds, the eastern cougar, and the Carolina parakeet. (“Anti-Hunting”) Hunting has become the second largest cause of species extinctions. (Anti-Hunting). It disrupts migration and hibernation patters.
Most hunting occurs on private land, where law to protect wildlife are often difficult to enforce. On private land hunters can set up a hunting reserve or game ranches these types of hunts are called “canned hunts” (Anti-Hunting). Hunters pay to kill native and exotic species (“Anti-Hunting”). Canned hunts are a big business, there are an estimated 1,000 games preserves in the U. S. , with some 5,000 so-called “exotic ranchers” in North America. (“Anti-Hunting”) Animal abuse should be illegal no matter the excuse.
The amount of neglect we have for animal farming and animal abuse is astonishing. In just one hour in the United States, more than one million land animals are killed for food (“Broudy”). Even just before they’re slaughter, a majority of these farm animals—nearly ten million each year- experience brutal abuse with practically no legal protection at all (“Broudy”). Instead of being acknowledged as the intelligent creatures they are, chicken, pigs, turkey and other animals are labeled as meat, egg, and milk production.
When animals are transported to a slaughter-house they are kept in “battery cages”. Battery cages are a housing system used for various animal production methods; primarily for egg-laying hens (“Broudy”). In the United States, approximately 95 percent of egg laying hens are intensively cramped in tiny, barren “battery cages” (“Broudy”). These cages offer less space per hen than the area of a single sheet of paper (“Broudy”). Many countries have banned the abusive battery cage system; however, the U. S. egg producers still overcrowd about 300 million hens in these cages (“Broudy”).
These types of maltreatment towards animal should be banned all over the world. The factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing their cost, always at the animal’s expense. These massive corporations that run most of the factory farms know that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as they can possibly can into tiny spaces, even if the animals die from infection or diseases. Animals encounter constant fear and torment. Pigs are kept in jam-packed sheds and cows are kept in crowded, filthy feedlots (PETA).
Their torture doesn’t end here; in fact, animals are given antibiotics to make them grow faster and keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions. Some chickens grow so unnaturally large that their legs cannot support their oversized bodies, and they start to suffer from starvation or dehydration because they can’t reach for food or water (PETA). Research shows that the antibiotics that are given to the animals can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health (PETA). According the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, animals products are the primary source of saturated fat in the American diet.
Animal cruelty has been around for centuries; it’s hard to believe that we live in a so-called civilized age, when vicious and cruel blood continues to flourish in Spain and other countries as well. Bullfighting is brutal and should of been banned long ago. Bullfighting is a traditional Spanish, or Latin America spectacle in which bulls are fought by a matador, assisted by banderilleros and picadors, in the end the bulls are usually slaughtered (“Bullfighting: The Facts”). The matador are always dressed in a traditional costume of brilliant colors.
Bullfighting is viewed by many as the mysterious ritual between man and beast. In reality bulls are not aggressive animals, the only reason they are furious and attempts to charge at the matador is mainly, because they have been horrendously abused for the previous two days (“Bullfighting: The Facts”). Their ears are stuffed with wet newspaper; Vaseline is intentionally rubbed into his eyes to blur his vision; cotton is stuffed up his nostrils to cut off respiration; strong caustic solution is rubbed onto his legs to throw him off-balance; and lastly a needle is stuck into their genitals (“Bullfighting: The Facts”).
On top of all that, they drug the bulls to slow them down. Just before releasing the bulls into the ring; they are kept for days trapped in a dark box; the purpose being is that when they are released they runs desperately towards the light (“Bullfighting: The Facts”). The matador tries to kill the bull with his sword, every time he misses, he stabs the animal on the back of the neck until the animal is paralyzed (Lucas). The idea for this is to cut the animal’s spinal cord. In many cases the matador fails to do so; the bulls may be completely conscious while its ears or tail are removed as trophies (Lucas).
In many circumstances they remain alive until they are dragged out of the arena to be slaughtered. Spain has an official number of bulls allowed to be killed in permanent bullrings; in 2006 it was 11,458, but when taken into account the bulls being killed during training and other bullfighting events, the figure is likely to reach at least 40,000 in Europe as a whole, and about 250,000 internationally (“Bullfighting: The Facts”). Many have defended bullfighting as a national tradition, but slaughtering, abusing, and harming animals is no way to have a tradition in any nation. This massacre of a “show” should be prohibited all over the world.
More than 100 million animals are poisoned, burned, crippled and abused in U. S. labs each year (PETA). Not only are they mistreated, in many cases animals are drugged. As of right now millions of mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other innocent animals are locked in cold, cages in laboratories across the country. Mice and rats are forced to inhale toxic fumes, dogs force-fed pesticides, and rabbits have chemicals rubbed into their skin and eyes (PETA). They are unable to make or express natural behaviors in these circumstances. These animals are not only physically abused, but they are also socially isolated and psychologically traumatized.
In the United Kingdom, 4. 12 million experiments were performed on animals in 2013, and 2. 94 million were performed without anesthesia (PETA). All they can do is sit and wait in fear for the next horrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. Animals are exposed to stress, constant pain, and some animals even develop neurotic behaviors such incessantly spinning in circles, pulling out their own hair and even biting their own skin (PETA). They are absolutely terrified, they shake in fear whenever someone walks past their cages, and their blood pressure spikes drastically (PETA).
After their miserable lives of endless pain, almost all of them are killed. No animal should live in fear in today’s society. Animals are now viewed as food instead of a living creature. We disguise brutal and repulsive actions by identifying them as “sports” or “shows”. We continue to create these “sports” to entertain ourselves at the expense of animals. If there were repercussions for these cruel abuses towards animals, we would have less animal killing and less people abusing over them. Animal experimentation needs to be stopped; animals are just like us, they have feelings, a family, and deserve the right to be treated morally.