Don't Choose To Abuse

 As it is rightly said by Anatole France, 'Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unconscious.              

Animal abuse is a matter that we feel always gets pushed aside, inclined towards propagating. It happens more frequently than most people know. Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect, or animal cruelty, is the infliction of omission or commission by humans of suffering or harm upon any nonhuman.

Divergent approaches to laws concerning animal cruelty occur in different jurisdictions throughout the world. For example, some laws govern methods of killing animals for food, clothing, or other products, and other laws are concerned to keep the animals in a way for entertainment, education, research, or to keep them as pets. However, there are number of conceptual approaches to the issue of cruelty towards animals, like the animal welfare position who thinks they could use these animals in any way, but it should be done in a way that minimizes unnecessary pain and suffering, sometimes referred to as "humane" treatment.

All laws of benevolence prohibit animal cruelty. At the top of the list is a kind of’ government - sponsored cruelty that is evident from the sorry state of our zoos where animals are kept in cramped cages, some of which ’stink’ so badly that you can’t get the strength to look at the animals more closely. Behind the doors of the laboratory is the most horrifying instance of cruelty — young animals in the laboratory are being tortured in the name of studies and experimentation. In cosmetics, 60,000 chemicals are used and often tested on rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and monkeys. To determine corneal irritation, corrosive chemicals are injected into the eyes. To determine tissue deterioration, animals are frozen in ice and put on hot plates. Every year, about ten million animals are murdered in experiments.

Other cases of worldwide that report cruelty include rare species such as Oliver Ridley tortoises, becoming enmeshed in the trawler’s nets, leading in suffocation, or spinal tailed lizards sold to create aphrodisiacs. In the presence of prospective clients, their necks are snapped. The fins of the sharks are sliced and the “bad-for-sale” animals flow back into the ocean to die a painful death. Frog legs are also cut, which are handled as a delicacy. Also, the juvenile chiru deer fur is used to make ’shawls’ of exotic tosh. Despite the laws, hundreds of animals and birds being trapped and killed in the name of custom and tradition. Only when the last of the animal's horns, tusks, skin and bones are sold, will mankind realize that money can never buy back our Wildlife.

Animal testing is also a huge problem in our country. They use animals to test medicines, make up, psychological disorders and how they can impact humans. Harry Harlow used monkeys to test how important contact and comfort are. The monkeys were separated from their mothers shortly after birth. They were kept in a cage with a wire monkey that held food and a wire monkey that was covered in a soft blanket. Most of the monkeys chose to stay with the cloth-covered monkey instead of going to the other wire monkey to get food. The monkeys could not function normally with other monkeys and by themselves. They had to be terminated after the study was over.

Most people do not understand that animals experience the same types of psychological abuse that humans do. Animals need to be cared properly and treated right. They are not things we can take our anger out on or be killed for inhumane entertainment. There are several ways in which you can stop the abuse and can prevent the abuse from happening. If you follow my blogs during the semester you will know how to prevent, stop, find out some of the abuse that is going on in the world to animals.

             We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- in the name of science, sport, fashion, food and so on.

    If they breathe, they live

If they live, they feel

If they feel, they love

If they love, they are aware.

If they are aware, they have a soul.

Animals are born as who they are, accept themselves the way they are and that is why they live with greater peace than people do.