Why Is Animal Abuse Wrong

16 October 2013
Animal Abuse Whether an animal did something to make you mad or upset, you are going through a rough time, or simply just because you want to, animal abuse is wrong in every way and our society should have more stringent laws against it. Many people take animals for granted and animal abuse is something people see and hear about all of the time, yet in today’s society people tend to turn a blind eye on it. Every animal deserves the right to live just as us humans do. An animal is a living being that feels pain just like we do. A society that tolerates animal cruelty may as well tolerate cruelty against humans. “Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant
In factory farms where they keep the animals before killing them, the animals have to live in a world full of abuse. Pigs, for instance, are killed by getting slammed into the concrete ground head first or by being tossed into bins of poisonous gasses while slowly suffering to death if they are sick or do not grow fast enough. Animals in these factory farms suffer in various ways such as getting their throats slit or being cramped into tight spaces, causing them to suffer depression or insanity. People don’t realize that before that meat they are eating became food on their plate, it was an animal that once suffered abuse, not just calmly put to sleep. If you are against animal abuse, but still eat meat with no guilt, all you are doing is paying someone else to do it for you. These animals don’t have any choice but to fall into these terrible living conditions the day they are
Our society needs more strict laws against all animal cruelty. For example, there should be more stringent laws on how animals get treated in factory farms before they become our food. The laws against animal abuse just overlooks what goes on in factory farms when really, they shouldn’t. Seeing or knowing an animal is being abused should not be acceptable like it is in some cases today. Although anti-cruelty laws exist in all U.S. states and territories, often, only the most serious cases generate sufficient sympathy and evidence to warrant prosecution, and gaining convictions may be very difficult. (“Facts About Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence”) While usually domestic animal abuse, abuse to animals such as dogs or cats, is only looked into, all other animal abuse should be closely watched too, such as abuse to animals like turtles, iguanas, birds, and fish. Most people wouldn’t get caught or go to jail for just abusing animals like that because most of the time it is just overlooked, when really they should be getting in the same amount of trouble as if it were a dog or a