Persuasive Essay On Animal Abuse

Tiffany Herman

Dayna Polehanki

English 12

21 March 2014

Animals Should be Loved and not Neglected

You work with abused, neglected animals everyday, so when you get home you'd love to be away from that all, but your next door neighbor feels a different way. At night when you're trying to relax, you hear him screaming at his dog, and then there it is; the dog yelping out for help. You so badly want to help that poor animal but you don't know what to do. You think to yourself how sick that person must be to abuse his animal that way, but if all you do is sit there and allow it to happen, doesn't that make you just as sick? Many people would argue against that, but they're just as wrong as the people that abuse animals. Domestic animal abuse laws need to be enforced, because abuse is a large problem. Abuse happens for several reasons whether it is abuse of a household pet, for profit, or abuse of livestock. There are laws that have been put into effect to prevent animal abuse, but there are still several advances to be made.

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is the intentional infliction of agony or harm upon animals for intents other than self-defense or survival. It can be harm for particular gain, for example, killing animals for food or for their fur, although opinions differ with respect to the method of slaughter. It usually encompasses inflicting harm for personal amusement. Laws concerning animal cruelty are designed to prevent unnecessary abuse to animals, rather than killing for other aims such as food, or they are about types of animals not eaten, such as pets. The animal welfare position holds that there is nothing wrong with using animals for purposes, such as food, clothing, entertain...

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...ls' experience is suffering because they are not primates or humans (Vining). Animal cruelty such as scoring, which is legally restricted, sometimes occurs on farms and ranches, as dows lawful but cruel treatment such as livestock branding ("Cruelty to Animals"). The criminal of cruelty to farm animals would itself have sufficient effect to warrant reintroduction. Criminalizing cruelty to farm animals would change what good faith decision making on behalf of a corporation would be, most especially in the design and internal administration of process and practices. Criminalizing cruelty to farm animals should be the first step in confronting this crisis of suffering we as a society have allowed to happen (Vining). This however, simply be a reflection of the weak protections afforded to livestock under state animal cruelty laws ("Animal Cruelty Facts and Statistics").