Every 60 seconds there is an animal suffering abuse Cats are one of the most common animals to be abused and mistreated. It is estimated that every minute there is an animal being mistreated.
Most common victims
The animals whose abuse is most often reported are dogs, cats, horses and livestock. Undercover investigations have revealed that animal abuse abounds in the factory farm industry.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this history is how the continuing abuse of cats today can be traced back to that moment. Studies show cats are abused at higher rates than dogs or other domestic animals in almost every category of abuse — beating, throwing, mutilation, drowning.
Sadly, chickens are some of the most abused animals on the planet. From cruel mutilations like debeaking to being bred to grow at unnatural rates, chickens on factory farms live miserable lives. However, to make matters worse there isn't a single federal law protecting chickens from abuse.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business.
Neglect is the most common type of animal cruelty.
An estimated 50 billion chickens are slaughtered for food every year – a figure that excludes male chicks and unproductive hens killed in egg production.
Pit Bulls are the most abused dogs in the world.
In addition to thousands of Pit Bulls mistreated and abused by their owners, many of them die every year in dogfighting rings.
In Australia, around 55,000–60,000 reports of animal mistreatment are made each year to the RSPCA [2], approximately 11,000 of which are made in the state of Victoria [3].
Animal cruelty involves gratuitously inflicting harm, injuring, or killing an animal. The cruelty can be intentional, such as kicking, burning, stabbing, beating, or shooting; or it can involve neglect, such as depriving an animal of water, shelter, food, and necessary medical treatment.
This includes cetaceansMarine mammals such as whales and dolphins.1, primates, elephants, bears, and big cats. These animals are more likely to suffer because they have more complex needs that cannot be met, or even approximated, in captive establishments.
Care to guess what the world's most abused animal is? In terms of sheer numbers and the routine suffering inflicted on them, it's got to be the chicken. 50 billion chickens are raised for meat every year, with around 5 billion more kept for egg production.
Polar bears are the animals that do worst in captivity.
The slaughter process has two stages: Stunning, when performed correctly, causes an animal to lose consciousness, so the animal can't feel pain. The law states that, with few exceptions, all animals must be stunned before 'sticking' (neck cutting) is carried out.
Animals have to wait their turn at the slaughterhouse. The wait can last one or two days long. Some animals, such as pigs and cows, witness how their peers are sent to death, and suffer terribly knowing that they will be next.
Australian laws require animals to be 'stunned' unconscious prior to having their throats cut. For cattle, this is normally done using a device called a 'captive bolt gun' which delivers a forceful strike to the forehead to induce unconsciousness.
Processing/slaughter
Chickens are stunned (rendered unconscious) before slaughter. In Australia, stunning occurs either by electrical waterbath stunning or controlled atmosphere (gas) stunning). Chickens have to be removed from their crates and be consciously shackled for the electrical stunning process.
We cannot know for sure if chickens are aware they are going to be slaughtered, but we can be certain that they experience fear and pain as they are shackled upside down and surrounded by the smell of death.
Something as serious as animal cruelty, however, should not be handled alone. Seek help from a family counselor, school counselor, pediatrician, or clergy member. If you know another child who has harmed an animal, report what you know immediately to your local animal welfare organization or police department.
November 2021) Zoosadism is pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. It is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that are considered a precursor to psychopathic behavior.
Cruelty to animals refers to treatment or standards of care that cause unwarranted or unnecessary suffering or harm to animals. Sometimes if someone harms animals they get a fine and in more serious cases can go to jail.