DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANIMAL CRUELTY MAKES SOME HUMANS SAVAGE.

Nowadays, animal cruelty is a global problem rapidly growing in our society. Animals are being abused and starved everyday and a lot of helpless animals die each year because of heartless owners. There are many kinds of animal cruelty; the most common are scientific research, animal fighting, and abandonment. Non violence leads to the highest ethics; which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are savages. (Thomas Edison, 1847-19731, inventor)

First of all, a common kind of mistreatment to animals in our society is that scientists need to research to improve relevant matters like economy and products. Usually companies test products on animals for the safety of people. Monkeys, rats, dogs, and cats are some of their chosen used for laboratory investigation. The biggest problem with animal testing is that animals usually suffer in a traumatic experience. Many animals finish with burns, hair loss, rashes, gashes or they even die.

On the other hand, animal fighting, for me, is a real crime. It’s very cruel; here in Costa Rica some people think it is a sport. Animals are placed in an arena with each other, and they fight to death, most of the time innocent animals die. Some animals such as dogs and chickens are fought. Incredibly, they are only put in the ring for people’s entertainment; these people ruthlessly abuse their animals, and then make them animals kill each other. Thank God we have in Costa Rica a law that regulates this, the Health Ministry is fighting hard against this.

Abandonment is another kind of animal cruelty with animals. Some irresponsible people adopt a pet for example and when it grows up, they abandon it. Another kind of animal abuse is hoarding; many humans do that, in these conditions people cannot take care of animals just fine. Animals live in pens covered with feces and urine and, because of this, they suffer fatal diseases and die. In Costa Rica, we have especial organizations that receive animals, take care of them and, after that, they give them in adoption for example “Rescate Animal” who is integrated for volunteers. Please, support them to continue fighting.

These are three important reasons why all animals should be treated with love,: Domestic animal rights vs. wild animal rights, animal hoarding, animal fighting, and abandonment. Animal cruelty is a current issue, and should be eliminated before the world can progress towards being a better place. Many humans still look like savages currently; they hurt animals and do not respect their rights. It is time to stop this; it is everyone´s responsibility.