When a dog is involved in an arranged fight they are one of two things, a fighter, or bait (Anti-cruelty). A dog fight is only over when one dog simply gives up, or dies, but almost always when one dies. Fights can last for hours at a time with the animals never slowing down. These animals are “trained” intensely for weeks before their first fight, and the “training” continues as their fights do. They are tortured in many different ways to gain a larger pain tolerance. Some dog fighters feed their dogs gun powder to fuel their anger before a fight. This method is obviously extremely dangerous to an animal, and most likely very painful. If a dog loses a fight and lives they are tortured as punishment (this is normally the special treatment for the trainers favorite dogs they don’t want to lose yet), starved to death, or just killed. If a dog were to escape from its captor (unlikely) it would have many problems trusting any other animal or human being again, and could easily remain very violent because of extensive trust issues (understandable). There is no type of dog fighting that is humane, but some people consider it entertainment anyways. Is it really fair that we cause severe pain, death, and violence just for a few hours of entertainment? Even though dog fighting is in fact illegal most fights are never found, trainers are rarely caught, and most dogs are never rescued.
There are people that believe that animals do not feel pain, or have real emotions because they are not equal to human beings. Studies from all across the world have proven that animals do in fact feel pain, and endure the same emotions as human beings. Just like humans, animals are vertebrates. This means they have spines, nerves, and muscles the same as us,...
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Some do not know how much happens to animals in the labs and research centers. According to Francis S. Collins at www.peta.org,
He believes that animals can suffer and feel pain and emotions, just as humans can, but he
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For Christians animals “feel pain”. Ignore it would be an absurdity. They also have rights. Not surprisingly there are rules to protect animals and Christians accept them. Four major religious movements such as the Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist promote compassion, love and respect for animals. The problem is that the faithful do not always respect these provisions and transform these ideas of universal compassion so that is most suitable to their desires.
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To begin with, Regan argues that people tend to believe that animals are 'unaware' of pain, and because humans are capable of announcing when in pain, it is thus considered morally wrong to harm a human being, than an animal. This type of thinking falls under the indirect duty views, which suggests that animals have no connected relationship, or direct link to humans, unlike humans have to their own species. Regan explains that disregarding animals as being capable of experiencing pain is morally wrong in itself, as is the indirect duty views (1989).
The ugly truth is that animals are dying at the hands of their owners everyday, some in very violent ways that can be avoidable given the right solution. Slaughterhouses, puppy mills, dog fighting, and so on, are just a few examples of how animals are being treated badly by people. Animal cruelty is a form of violence which, un...
There is no real gulf separating the species. We all can feel suffering in the same manner. A racist's reasoning is flawed because he claims that one race is undeserving of sympathy, despite that it may be capable of suffering. Similarly, to claim that an animal deserves no rights or sympathy is faulty on the same reasoning. It creates a gu...
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