WHAT IS ANIMAL CRUELTY?



Animal cruelty is a failure to provide necessary medical care, adequate food and water, daily exercise, clean and sanitary conditions, adequate shelter from the elements or leaving an animal in a vehicle in hot weather.



It is cruel to:



. kill, abuse, maim or disfigure an animal



. give poison to an animal or expose a poisonous substance with intent to poison an animal



. overload, overdrive, torture, torment or deprive an animal of necessary medical care, sustenance or shelter

beat, mutilate, or kill any animal or cause the same to be done



. leave unattended or carry in or upon vehicles without proper restraint or ventilation



. confine an animal and fail to supply sufficient quantities of wholesome food and water



. keep an animal in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air



. fail to maintain in a clean and sanitary condition, free from extreme and unreasonably objectionable odor, any and all structures, pens, yards and areas next to where an animal is kept

. fail to provide bedding and adequate shelter from the elements for any animal kept outdoors



. own, possess, keep or train any animal with the intent that such animal shall be engaged in an exhibition of fighting



. encourage, instigate, promote, or assist in an exhibition of animal fighting


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Living creatures are suffering for your comfort.

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This is wrong to the highest level. Please help spread awareness of the animals that go through testing. It is not right and should be stopped. The following images are of animals that have been used for consumer product testing. They are graphic.




















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The MSPCA is offering a $100 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone who abandons or mistreats an animal - a crime punishable by up to one year in jail and a $1000 fine.



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PETA, celebrating 25 years of "....advocating for those who cannot speak for themselves..."



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NOTE: THIS IS A VIDEO TO SHOW YOU ABOUT ANIMAL CRUILTY!!! MAY BE HARD TO WATCH!!!



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This video clip is even harder to watch as evil people skin animals while they are still alive and laugh at how they struggle in pain!!





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This is a video about animals that are used for entertainment purposes such as elephants and big cats in circuses and etc.



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This Is Mikey And Gerard From My Chemical Romance talking about Animal Cruility



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This is Billy from Good Charlotte talking about why he's vegetarian



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This is Benji from Good Charlotte explaining why he is vegetarian



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This Is Jorja Fox from CSI who has been a vegitarian for 4 or more years!





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IT READS: How humans are not physically created to eat meat

Although some historians and anthropologists say that man is historically omnivorous, our anatomical equipment teeth, jaws, and digestive system favors a fleshless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets."

And much of the world still lives that way. Even on most industrialized countries, the love affair with meat is less than a hundred years old. It started with the refrigerator car and the twentieth-century consumer society. But even with the twentieth century, man's body hasn't adapted to eating meat. The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, "Man's structure, external and internal, compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables constitute his natural food." The chart below compares the anatomy of man with that of carnivorous and herbivorous animals.

When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Humans are clearly not designed to digest and ingest meat.



Meat-eaters: have claws



Herbivores: no claws



Humans: no claws



Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue



Herbivores: perspire through skin pores



Humans: perspire through skin pores

Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding



Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding



Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding



Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly



Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.



Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.



Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat



Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater



Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater



Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.



Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits



Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits

Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains



Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains



Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains



Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)

Clearly if humans were meant to eat meat we wouldn't have so many crucial ingestive/digestive similarities with animals that are herbivores.



Many people ask me, "If we weren't supposed to eat meat than why do we?". It is because we are conditioned to eat meat. Also, the ADA (American Dietetic Association) tells us that "most of mankind for most of human history has lived on a vegetarian or Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.



A popular statement that meat eaters say is; "In the wild, animals kill other animals for food. It's nature." First of all, we are not in the wild. Secondly, we can easily live without eating meat and killing, not to mention we'd be healthier. And finally, as I have already shown, we weren't meant to eat meat. Meat and seafood putrefies within 4 hours after consumption and the remnants cling to the walls of the stomach and intestines for 3-4 days or longer than if a person is constipated. Furthermore, the reaction of saliva in humans is more alkaline, whereas in the case of flesh-eating or preying animals, it is clearly acidic. The alkaline saliva does not act properly on meat.



The final point I would like to make on how we as humans were not meant to eat meat is this. All omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat their meat raw. When a lion kills an herbivore for food, it tears right into the stomach area to eat the organs that are filled with blood (nutrients). While eating the stomach, liver, intestine, etc., the lion laps the blood in the process of eating the dead animals flesh. Even bears that are omnivores eat salmon raw. However, eating raw or bloody meat disgust us as humans. Therefore, we must cook it and season it to buffer the taste of flesh.



If a deer is burned in a forest fire, a carnivorous animal will NOT eat its flesh. Even circus lions have to be feed raw meat so that they will not starve to death. If humans were truly meant to eat meat, then we would eat all of our meat raw and bloody. The thought of eating such meat makes ones stomach turn. This is my point on how we as humans are conditioned to believe that animal flesh is good for us and that we were meant to consume it for survival and health purposes. If we are true carnivores or omnivores, cooking our meat and seasoning it with salt, ketchup, or tabasco sauce would disguise and we as humans would refuse to eat our meat in this form.

Overall advantages of vegetarianism



You can indeed reap a lot of benefits by being a vegetarian and people have become more aware of the health benefits of being a vegetarian. Animal rights issues is only one of the reasons why people decide to go on a vegetarian diet. People are beginning to care more about the environment. However, the main reason why people go on vegetarian diet is because of health benefits.



Meat is not good for you as it clogs your thinking. This is especially true if you eat red meat; white meat has less fat compared to red meat. Excessive intake of fats into your body can result in having a high level of cholesterol. If you think that not eating meat is going to make you look scrawny or unhealthy please think again. Just imagine that cows, goats, gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses and so on are all vegetarians (herbivores) but look at how tough these animals are, not to mention their life span which is longer compared to the carnivores (meat eating animals).

If you look at the chicken and vulture (carnivores), these animals eat just about everything and notice how unhealthy these animals look. The Chinese believe that the chi or life force in your body is less when you consume meat and so do the Indians with their ancient yogic principles, their life force was called prana.



The great Tai Chi masters of China were adept at preserving their chi, even if some of the masters were not vegetarians, they still had a balanced diet. It has now been scientifically proven that a balanced vegetarian diet is better compared to a diet that is taken with meat.



There are a lot of misconceptions about being a vegetarian; protein is one of the main topics of debate as a lot of people think that you can only get protein from meat. Vegetarians get a lot of protein, if they eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. What vegetarians don't get is the excess protein of traditional American diet, excess that leads to kidney overload and mineral deficiency diseases.



A lot of people also think that a vegetarian diet is not a balanced diet. Vegetarian diets have a proportion of three macronutrients, which are complex carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Vegetarian food sources (plants) tend to be higher sources of most micronutrients. Another myth that needs to be clarified is the so-called lack of calcium among vegetarians. Many vegetables, especially green, leafy ones, have a good supply of calcium. The truth is that vegetarians suffer less from osteoporosis (a deficiency of calcium that leads to weak bones).

It is not my intention to force people to become vegetarians. However, vegetarianism is my answer to complete health and wholeness. The three issues to consider in regard to vegetarianism are: spiritual, mental, and physical (nutritional).



The spiritually aspiring person attempts to work on his/her self. The purpose of spiritual growth is to move away from the animal nature into the more human nature that God intended for us to have. Meat eating inhibits this. Again, the same science that sometimes attempts to ignore the existence of a force higher than man also has proved, in the laboratory, that aggression levels are much higher in meat eaters than non-meat eaters! The animal instincts become more powerful every time you eat meat. Another spiritual aspect of being a meat eater is when one must question the necessity and the method as well as the karma of killing animals. However, everyone has their own mores which they must determine for themselves. It is not the purpose of my dissertation to force a specific moral behavior on anyone. Most spiritual people believe auras. Kirilian photography shows us that a force field remains around dead or amputated tissue. You adopt that animal aura when you eat a dead animal. Fruits and vegetables have a higher



vibrational aura than animal products. Is it not personal evolution that the spiritual candidate is interested in? If so, meat eating is urgently prohibited.

You are what you eat, is a slogan that I love to use to show the mental aspect of vegetarianism.



When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their cells from their glands and other organs, just as in humans, and are part of the dead carcass that goes on to the food store. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests those same enzymes, which are molecularly very similar to those found in humans. Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotions cells prior to digestion. The enzymes within fruits and vegetables supply the body with sufficient nutrients that will always uphold a healthy state of mind.

Fruits and vegetables are high in nutrients; the very thing the body needs to live a long disease and pain free life. The same cannot be said for meat. Nutritionally, the alkaline-based digestive system of humans will not properly break down substantial acid substances, the greatest of which is meat.



Colon cancer is rampant! This is caused by the slow evacuation and the putrefaction in the colon of the remains of meat. Lifelong vegetarians never suffer from such an illness. Many meat eaters believe that meat is the sole source of protein. However, the quality of this protein is so poor that little of it can ever be utilized by humans because it is incomplete and lacks the correct combination of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Studies show that the average American gets five times the amount of protein needed. It is a common medical fact that excess protein is dangerous, the prime danger being that uric acid (the waste product produced in the process of digesting protein) attacks the kidneys, breaking down the kidney cells called nephrons. This condition is called nephritis; the prime cause of it is overburdening the kidneys. More usable protein is found in one tablespoon of tofu or soybeans than the average serving of meat!



Have you ever seen what happens to a piece of meat that stays in the sun for three days? Meat can stay in the warmth of the intestine for at least four days until it is digested. It does nothing but wait for passage. Often, it usually stays there for

much longer, traces remaining for up to several months. Colonic therapists always see meat passing through in people who have been vegetarians for several years, thus indicating that meat remains undigested there for a long time. Occasionally this has been documented in twenty-year vegetarians!



Some vegetarians claim they are more satisfied after they eat. The reason for this is that there are fewer ketones (protein-digestive substances) formed when vegetable protein is digested. For many, ketones cause a trace amount of nausea which one normally interprets as a decreased desire for food due to this uncomfortable and slight degree of queasiness. Although the body calls for more food, the taste buds tolerate less. This is the danger of the popular high-protein diet substances on the market. This abnormally high level of ketones is called ketosis and refers to the state of starvation that the body incurs due to the inability of the appetite to call for nutrition. Most Americans who eat the wrong

type of carbohydrates never recognize the high amount of complex carbohydrates required to overthrow this condition. Also, when the blood ketone level is too high, it results in abnormally acidic blood, called acidosis.



Tigers or lions who eat meat and grow strong on it have acid-based digestive systems. Our Hydrochloric Acid isnt strong enough to fully digest meat. Also, their intestines are in a straight run of about five feet long, not twisted and turned, layer over layer, compacted into a small area like the human intestine, which is twenty feet long.



Meats are frozen for a long period of times. Some meat (especially poultry) is frozen up to two years. Cold temperatures do not kill all species of bacteria. Worse than this, as it is shipped and stored, most frozen meat is thawed and refrozen many times. This is almost unavoidable.



Meat eaters suffer more frequently from various types of food poisoning than vegetarian eaters, so much so that statistics show that every American has had food poisoning on at least one occasion. When you've felt ill, out-of-sorts, had

diarrhea, or were just a little sick to your stomach, no doubt you had not the slightest idea that you had been poisoned by scavengers living off the dead carcass you just ate.

Meat is costly and it is the most wasteful source of resources. When one removes meat from his or her diet, a whole new world of eating opens up. Cooking and preparing vegetarian style is no more time consuming than cooking meat. It costs less than half as much to eat vegetarian as it does to eat meat. There are excellent, nutritious, and easy to prepare vegetarian dishes that are Italian, Chinese, Indian, Mid-Eastern, French, Spanish, etc.

Additionally, one can enjoy many other foods that he has never tasted because of the meat craze. Most consumers have eaten no more than five or six varieties of beans and legumes less than 10% of what is available and grains, including different appetizing types of wheat, nuts, and seeds. And they can be prepared very creatively!



In my opinion, there are far more benefits to becoming a vegetarian then there are becoming or staying a meat eater. Due to the fact that I was raised on meat, I have the wonderful experiences from both worlds. As a meat eater, I was constantly sick, tired, and overweight. As a vegetarian, I am healthy, full of energy, and maintaining a perfect weight. I love being a vegetarian and it shows. Because I wish the best for myself, its just second nature to want the best for others. From my past experience and research, going vegetarian is the best thing anyone can do for their mind, body and spirit.



















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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND INTELLIGENCE PROVING ANIMALS KNOW WHATS GOING ON



. Human and chimpanzee brains are remarkably similar in circuitry, and the genes of humans and chimpanzees are 98.4% identical.



. Captive elephants have been known to unscrew bolts to dismantle their cages.



. Dogs are instinctive joiners, which is why when one dog barks, dogs all over the neighborhood start to bark.



. Certain monkeys know how to lie. Male vervet monkeys have been observed attracting females by uttering the vervet word for "food," when in fact they have nothing to offer except a twig or leaf.



. New research indicates that parrots can master complex intellectual concepts better than children under the age of five. One parrot in a study could name 50 different objects, and differentiate colors, numbers up to eight, and the concepts of same and different.



. Scientists who have successfully taught pigs to play video games have concluded that pigs may be as smart as chimpanzees and other non-human primates.







ANIMALS USED IN SCIENCE AND ABUSE. THE TRUTH.





ANIMALS USED IN SCIENCE



. Each year, an estimated 27 million animals in the U.S. are used in research, testing, and education. Over 2 million animals are killed in dissection classes.



. In a 1995 Associated Press survey, 67% agreed that it is seldom or never right to test cosmetics on animals.



. There are presently nearly 500 alternatives available to dissection for science education.



. Roughly 50,000 primates are currently used for animal research in the U.S.



ANIMAL ABUSE



. In a 1999 Decision Research survey, 74% agreed that an animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering.



. There's a dear link between animal abuse and domestic violence. In a 1995 Wisconsin survey, 4 out of 5 victims of domestic violence in homes with companion animals said their pets were also abused.



. Wisconsin made some form of animal cruelty a felony offense in 1986. Since then, 27 states have passed similar laws.







ANIMAL LIVES IN INTENSIVE ANIMAL FARMING



. Beef cattle are kept inside during the fattening period and outside of the grazing season. Moreover, as with other farm animals, they are killed before their time, when they are about two years old. The same goes for dairy cows, which are slaughtered at an age of five, on average, as by this time milk production has usually declined, or because of decreased fertility, udder diseases, or other problems.



. In order to have sufficient milk production, it is necessary for dairy cows to give birth to a calf every year. This calf is usually taken away from the mother immediately, and male calves are often bred to be veal calves. This is a meat calf that will spend his entire life (26 weeks) in a wooden box, which is too small for the animal to turn itself around in. This way muscle development will be limited so that the meat will remain tender. Because the consumer prefers whitish-pink meat, the animal is fed an iron-deficient diet, which causes it to develop anaemia. When the calf is ready for slaughter and is taken to the slaughterhouse, it can barely walk.





. Nearly all pigs live in bare pens with concrete grate floors, and spend most of their lives in the dark. Castration and clipping of the canines are done without anaesthesia. Because pigs tend to bite each other's tails out of boredom and frustration, also the tails are largely cut off (also without anaesthesia). Most pigs see daylight for the first time when they are being taken to the slaughterhouse after 6 months.

Breeding sows are also being kept inside all the time, and their life consists of cycles of impregnation and nourishing her young. When the piglets are born, the sow is secured in a so-called farrowing-crate to make nourishing as easy and safe as possible. Instinctively, the sow will desperately try to make a nest, but of course that's impossible in these highly unnatural surroundings.



. Broiler chickens are kept in large, dark hangars, where they are packed at a rate of twenty animals per square meter. They are fattened up in a period of about 6 weeks, during which their body mass increases by approximately 50 percent per day. Consequences of this fast growth rate are - among other things - breathing difficulties, heart conditions and leg-deformities. The animals are taken to the slaughterhouse in trucks, pushed into wooden crates, often with broken bones and dislocations as a consequence. The chickens that finally end up at the supermarket are actually still chicks.



. About 98 percent of all layer hens live in so called battery cages. Four or five animals are stuffed into one cage that is not even the size of regular sheet of paper. They are always exposed to artificial light, which is used to manipulate their laying cycles and to increase production. In these surroundings it is of course impossible for them to exhibit their natural behaviour.



. So called "free-range" chickens don't have a lot of space either, have a hard time taking dust baths and can't get out in the open. In other systems, chickens can go outside, but - just as is the case with battery - and free-range chickens - their beaks are being cut off with a hot knife to prevent them from injuring or plucking each other.





. In all cases the male chicks are being gassed or torn to pieces in a shredder, as they are "useless" for egg production. At an age of approximately 72 weeks and after a production of about 300 eggs, the layer hens are being sold as soup chickens for about 0,18 euro a piece.





. Several kinds of fish (among others salmon, trout and eel) are being bred very intensively nowadays, often packed together. Fish that is caught at sea have been able to live a natural life, but their end is not enviable: once out of the water, they usually die by suffocation.



. This text comes from the website from eva, a Belgium vegetarian Organisation.





SOME STUFF ABOUT BULL FIGHTING, "NUISANCE CONTROL", AND BIG CAT ABUSE.



BULL FIGHTING



Why is Illinois' Governor giving tens of thousands of taxpayers' dollars to the same rodeo event that has been documented as violating the Humane Care Act and countless other humane guidelines? Why does Illinois fail to enforce their laws when it comes to rodeo abuse?



Bullfighting is one of the most indefensible types of animal abuse.



"NUISANCE CONTROL"



Cage-raised birds shot as they are ejected from cages -- deer populations purposely inflated to excess -- government slaughters in the name of recreation and nuisance control. Hunters claim they harvest wildlife, but in fact they are raping nature for the thrill of the kill.



BIG CAT ABUSE



There are only 5000-7000 tigers left in the wild due primarily to habitat loss and hunting. According to the World Wildlife Fund the tiger population has declined by as much as 95% in the past hundred years.





That for every one performing animal you see, there were 30 that were killed or discarded because they refused.





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THE WHITE TIGER AND GOLDEN TABBY TIGER FRAUD



Over the years many people have asked us to take white tigers off their hands, but in every case it was only so they could breed more, so we declined. For years we have railed against supporting facilities that breed and exhibit white tigers because of the abuse involved in producing them. White Tigers can ONLY exist in captivity by continual inbreeding, such as father to daughter, brother to sister, mother to son and so forth.



The white lions and tabby tigers are merely a product of this practice of inbreeding for white coats as well and are not being bred for any sort of conservation program either.



The myth of the Rare White Bengal Tiger was an illusion meant to deceive the public into thinking that these cats were endangered and being preserved for future generations. The truth of the matter is that they arent even pure Bengal tigers, but rather are all the offspring of an original Siberian / Bengal cross breeding. The inbreeding results in many defects, early deaths, still births and, as could be expected, the cats are not very bright which is why they are preferred for entertainment purposes.



To quote from Dr. Ron Tilson, Conservation Director of the Minnesota Zoo and manager of the world renown Tiger Species Survival Plan, "The white tiger controversy among zoos is a small part ethics and a large part economics. The tiger Species Survival Plan has condemned breeding white tigers because of their mixed ancestry, most have been hybridized with other subspecies and are of unknown lineage, and because they serve no conservation purpose. Owners of white tigers say they are popular exhibit animals and increase zoo attendance and revenues as well. The same rationalization can be applied to the selective propagation of white lions, king cheetahs and other phenotypically aberrant animals."



"However, there is an unspoken issue that shames the very integrity of zoos, their alleged conservation programs and their message to the visiting public. To produce white tigers or any other phenotypic curiosity, directors of zoos and other facilities must continuously inbreed father to daughter and father to granddaughter and so on. At issue is a contradiction of fundamental genetic principles upon which all Species Survival Plans for endangered species in captivity are based. White tigers are an aberration artificially bred and proliferated by some zoos, private breeders and a few circuses who do so for economic rather than conservation reasons."



Consider this: Only 1 in 4 tiger cubs from a white tiger bred to an orange tiger carrying the white gene are born white, and 80% of those die from birth defects associated with the inbreeding necessary to cause a white coat. Of those surviving, most have such profound birth defects, such as immune deficiency, scoliosis of the spine (distorted spine), cleft palates, mental impairments and grotesquely crossed eyes that bulge from their skull that only a small percentage are suitable for display. Due to these birth defects the white tigers often die an early death. According to some tiger trainers, only 1 in 30 of those white cats will consistantly perform. The number of tigers that have to be produced and disposed of in order to fill the publics desire to see white tigers on display is staggering.



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