1. Animal Cruelty and Rights
Traditionally, it took five years of grazing to get a steer to market size. However, now it takes 6 months of grazing and 14 months in a feedlot. This is due to enormous quantities of corn (not their natural food), protein supplements, and drugs, including growth hormones, that are administered to the animals.
During the Roman Empire, the massive Coliseum of Rome featured events in which animals fought to the death with each other and with people. Often, the animals were chained together or tormented with burning irons and darts to make fighting fiercer.
To make a 40-inch fur coat it takes between 30 and 200 chinchilla or 60 mink, 50 sables, 50 muskrats, 45 opossums, 40 raccoons, 35 rabbits, 20 foxes, 20 otters, 18 lynx, 16 coyotes, 15 beavers, or 8 seals.
Turkeys and chickens are exempt from federal humane slaughter laws, but they make up more than 90% of animals slaughtered each year in America. Because they are exempt, it is not required to stun them before they are shackled on a moving rail to have their throats slit. Some are still alive when they are submerged in the scalding tank. Those that are still alive are called “redskins.” Over 180 million chickens each year suffer through a botched death in the slaughterhouse.
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Animal Cruelty and Rights
In Spain, during the festive “Toro Jubilo,” gobs of pitch are placed on a bull’s horn and then lit on fire. The bull is let loose in the streets, where it runs frantically in pain as the fire burns the bull’s horns, eyes, and body while the spectators cheer. The bull can be on fire for hours.
Most of the 6 million horses that served in the U.S. military during WWI were killed. The deaths of millions of other horses in military service to other countries severely depleted the world’s horse population. Animal rights activists and welfarists argue that animals involved in warfare did not know what they were fighting for or against and had poor chances of survival.
The first captive orca was collected for Marineland Pacific in The animal lived for only day. She repeatedly smashed herself against the walls of her tank until she died.
In the United States, dogfighting is an illegal, multimillion-dollar gambling industry that is often associated with guns, auto theft, arms, smuggling, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Dogs most often used are pit bulls. Fights go on for hours, sometimes to the death. Dogs that survive the fights frequently die hours or days later from shock, blood loss, or infection.

3. Animal Cruelty and Rights
Animal Rights
Good News
Bad News
Animal Cruelty
Hunting and poaching
Why are people cruel to animals?
Sometimes it is simply that people do not understand that what they are doing to an animal is causing the animal pain. Other times, people who have been abused themselves will be cruel to animals because they think that is the only way to treat others.  The worst cruelty situations are when people hurt animals knowing that it hurts the animal, and they do it to cause the animal pain. It is hard to say why someone would do this, but often they see the animals as objects instead of creatures with feelings.
By 2019, Nepal's Gadhimai Temple Trust
declared that no animal sacrifices will be allowed in the next festival.
SeaWorld
Animals in research labs are getting a reprieve.
Illegal Poaching still continues to this day and many endangered species are threatened in terms of numbers in population.
There has been a mountain of protests against Orca whales being in shows in SeaWorld, and that it will soon conclude by the end by 2016.
Hoarding is one of the most egregious forms of animal cruelty, affecting tens of thousands of animals – mostly cats and dogs – in communities nationwide. Hoarders keep abnormally large numbers of animals for whom they do not provide even the most basic care.
17 countries have banned circuses featuring wild animals, due to the fact most people can’t stand animals being miserable.
Spain is beginning to ban Bullfighting because of the way bulls are being killed in barbarically and even for sport.
Animal victims of hoarders typically suffer horribly as a result, and, unlike most other forms of companion animal cruelty, their misery can go on for years. The sometimes hundreds of dog or cat victims of a single hoarder generally show signs of abuse such as severe malnutrition, untreated medical conditions including open sores, cancers, and advanced dental and eye diseases, and severe psychological distress.
PETA
Portugal Airlines are making a company wide-ban on all cruel shipments contained with endangered animal parts killed by hunters and animals species bound for laboratories.
Each year in some animal shelters, approximately 2.7 million animals are euthanized (1.2 million dogs and 1.4 million cats).