Approximately
30,000 animals are killed a year due to malnutrition and the animals getting
beaten with foreign objects.(1) Animals have been getting abused and mistreated
for centuries. Many animals are harmed in many different ways every day. One
way that a lot of animals get harmed is getting euthanized because they are too
wild because of their owners using them as aggressive protectors or dog
fighters. About 8 million dogs and cats go to the shelter every year. And half
of them are euthanized because of lack of space or dogs that are deemed non-trainable
or too violent to be in the public or too dangerous to be owned (2). It hurts
my heart to realize that animals have no control over their lifestyle. They
just understand the basic means of survival. Animal abuse is morally wrong
because it doesn’t abide by the animal law of liberation which makes it against
the law to not treat animals in consideration to how humans would like to be
treated.
Like humans, animals are smart enough to do
what they feel they need and have to do to in order to survive and live that
regular day to day lifestyle. But some neglectful and money greedy owners force
their dogs to think that living a fighting and aggressive lifestyle is okay and
is the right thing to do, when it shouldn’t be like that because life as a
house hold pet shouldn’t be lived through negativity. But sorry to say a lot of
people in this world see that illegal field of dog fighting as lucrative. Approximately
20,000 dogs die from dog fighting (3). Many of the dogs aren’t even killed from
the actual fight some of the owners feel that the dogs are not useful to them
if they get harmed during the fight and is injured in an important limb. So the
owners sometimes kill them or leave them to die.
Another
large lucrative field that is actually legal in which a mass 50 million animals
a year are killed, is the process of them getting their fur removed from their
body. That amount is ridiculous. I feel terrible that all of these animals are
dying just so that a rich person could look a little more stylish than someone
who is in a lower social class than them. Many animals get their skin removed
when they are alive so the humans doing the skin removal seem to be very cold
hearted because I personally would not be able to do that to an animal at all.
Many
beautiful animals die for the benefit of humans. Witnessing unnecessary
killings of animals make me feel as if this moral issue needs to be changed. I
have seen many examples of animal abuse on YouTube of people around the world
abusing animals which allowed me the opportunity to look at this topic as
bigger than just another United States problem. Animal abuse is a world-wide
problem. People in other countries care less about animals than some of the people
in the US. I watched a video of Chinese people throwing a raccoon against the
ground and shattering its bones so it would be easier for them to skin it
compared to it being fully functional and having the power to fight back (4). I
also saw a video of some food market in Pakistan where they were they were
beating a coyote and then after the coyote couldn’t stand they would tie and
hang it up from a pole and de skin it so that they could sell the fur. I
personally was disgusted at how beast like they seemed because we aren’t
culturally use to witnessing that in America. Even though we have cruel animal
abusers in this country I noticed through some of the videos I seen how animals
in different country seem to carry no significance as they do in America.
I
hate the fact that animals are being killed because I love animals. My family
and I have had so many pets ever since I was born. I think it may have started
when I was little because my dad may have wanted me to have a animal loving
spirit. So he wanted me to start young. So it is because of my father that I
kind of have a sensitive spot for animals. I plan to have pets when I get my
own family and continue my family’s pet legacy. And I will try to do my part
with helping out the stop of this big problem by educating all the youth around
me about how we should cherish and value animals as if they were a part of the
family. I also plan to take kids to the SPCA and different shelters so that
they can develop a soft spot for animals which will most likely influence them
to not perform negatively or harm animals and teach them to cherish other forms
of life as if animals were human. Life is life no matter what style of life it
is. So I feel they all should be treated with a similar balance of respect and
freedom.
Depending on the state or place where the
person lives they will think differently about different animal cruelty topics.
People in this world sometimes share morals values and ethics but some of them
differ and have opposing thoughts toward specific subjects. Like in my example about
the animals getting abused for fur trade the Chinese people may not think of it
as morally wrong but me as a animal nurturer and lover see it as wrong. It almost seems like people in other countries
accept animal cruelty more because it seems as if it is the only means of easy profit
with no high level of education required.
In
conclusion people around the world have to understand how animals should be treated
in consideration to how humans feel they should be treated.
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