{"id":2932,"date":"2017-04-23T01:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T01:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/12932\/113-facts-about-animal-cruelty"},"modified":"2017-04-23T01:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T01:36:46","slug":"113-facts-about-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/12932\/113-facts-about-animal-cruelty","title":{"rendered":"113 Facts About Animal Cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Animals caught in traps can suffer for days before succumbing to exposure, shock, or attacks by predators.<\/li>\n
  2. Traps often kill “non-target” animals, including dogs and endangered species.<\/li>\n
  3. To cut costs, fur farmers pack animals into small cages, preventing them from taking more than a few steps back and forth.<\/li>\n
  4. Crowding and confinement is especially distressing to minks- solitary animals who occupy up to 2,500 acres of wetland in the wild.<\/li>\n
  5. The frustration of life in a cage leads minks to self-mutilate- biting their skin, tails, feet- or frantically pace and circle endlessly.<\/li>\n
  6. “PETA investigators witnessed rampant cruelty to animals. Workers beat pigs with metal rods and jabbed pins into pigs’ eyes and faces.”<\/li>\n
  7. Snakes and lizards are skinned alive because of the belief that live flaying makes leather more supple.<\/li>\n
  8. Piglets are separated from their mothers when they are as young as 10 days old.<\/li>\n
  9. Once her piglets are gone, the sow is impregnated again, and the cycle continues for three or four years before she is slaughtered.<\/li>\n
  10. Approximately 3 to 4 million cats and dogs- many of them healthy, young, and adoptable- must be euthanized in animal shelters every year.<\/li>\n
  11. Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do- to nourish their young – but on dairy farms calves are taken away at 1 day old.<\/li>\n
  12. 1 day old calves are fed milk replacements (including cattle blood) so that their mothers’ milk can be sold to humans.<\/li>\n
  13. Animals can suffer brain damage or death from heatstroke in just 15 minutes. Beating the heat is extra tough for dogs.<\/li>\n
  14. Each year, approximately 10,000 bulls die in bullfights.<\/li>\n
  15. Most cows are intensively confined, unable to fulfill their most basic desires, such as nursing their calves, even for a single day.<\/li>\n
  16. Cows are fed unnatural, high-protein diets-which include dead chickens, pigs, and other animals.<\/li>\n
  17. Overall, factory-farmed animals, including those on dairy farms, produce 1.65 billion tons of manure each year.<\/li>\n
  18. Kid goats are boiled alive to make gloves.<\/li>\n
  19. The skins of unborn calves and lambs – some aborted, others from slaughtered pregnant cows – are considered “luxurious.”<\/li>\n
  20. About 285 million hens are raised for eggs in the US. In tiny spaces so small they cannot move a wing.<\/li>\n
  21. The wire mesh of the cages rubs off hens feathers, chafes their skin, and causes their feet to become crippled.<\/li>\n
  22. Before 1986, only four states had felony animal cruelty laws.<\/li>\n
  23. Glue traps cause terror and agony to any animals who touch them, leaving them to suffer for days.<\/li>\n
  24. In one study, 70% of animal abusers also had records for other crimes.<\/li>\n
  25. Sealers often hook baby seals in the eye, cheek, or mouth to avoid damaging their fur, then drag them across the ice to skin them.<\/li>\n
  26. Arsenic-laced additives are mixed into the feed of about 70 percent of the chickens raised for food.<\/li>\n
  27. Every year, nearly a million seals worldwide are subjected to painful and often lingering deaths, largely for the sake of fashion.<\/li>\n
  28. Scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day! That’s about one species every 15 minutes.<\/li>\n
  29. Every year in the US, 50 million male piglets are castrated (usually without being given any painkillers).<\/li>\n
  30. More than 15 million warm-blooded animals are used in research every year.<\/li>\n
  31. The methods used in fur factory farms are designed to maximize profits, almost always at the expense of the animals.<\/li>\n
  32. To test cosmetics, cleaners, and other products, hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed every year.<\/li>\n
  33. In extremely crowded conditions, piglets are prone to stress-related behavior such as cannibalism and tail-biting.<\/li>\n
  34. Farmers often chop off piglets’ tails and use pliers to break off the ends of their teeth- without giving them any painkillers.<\/li>\n
  35. For identification purposes, farmers cut out chunks of young pigs ears.<\/li>\n
  36. Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages.<\/li>\n
  37. For fur, small animals may be crammed into boxes and poisoned with hot, unfiltered engine exhaust from a truck.<\/li>\n
  38. Engine exhaust is not always lethal, and some animals wake up while they are being skinned.<\/li>\n
  39. Larger animals have clamps attached to or rods forced into their mouth or anus so they can be painfully electrocuted.<\/li>\n
  40. Bird poisons attack birds’ nervous systems, causing them to suffer seizures, erratic flight, and tremors for hours before dying.<\/li>\n
  41. If you drink milk, you’re subsidizing the veal industry.<\/li>\n
  42. Male calves are often taken away from their mothers at 1 day old, chained in tiny stalls for 3-18 weeks, and raised for veal.<\/li>\n
  43. After they are taken from their mothers, piglets are confined to pens until they are separated to be raised for breeding or meat.<\/li>\n
  44. Although chickens can live for more than a decade, hens raised for their eggs are exhausted and killed by age 2.<\/li>\n
  45. More than 100 million “spent” hens are killed in slaughterhouses every year.<\/li>\n
  46. Forty-five states currently have felony provisions for animal cruelty. (Those without are AK, ID, MS, ND and SD.)<\/li>\n
  47. Dogs used for fighting are chained, taunted, and starved to trigger extreme survival instincts and encourage aggressiveness.<\/li>\n
  48. Dogs that lose fights (or refuse) are often abandoned, tortured, set on fire, electrocuted, shot, drowned, or beaten to death.<\/li>\n
  49. Cows on average product 16 lbs of milk per day. With hormones, antibiotics, and genetic manipulation? 54 lbs a day.<\/li>\n
  50. Humane treatment is not a priority for those who poach and hunt animals to obtain their skin.<\/li>\n
  51. Alligators on farms may be beaten with hammers and axes, sometimes remaining conscious and in pain for 2 hours after skinning.<\/li>\n
  52. Investigation of animal abuse is often the first point of social services intervention for a family in trouble.<\/li>\n
  53. A Canadian Police study found that 70 percent of people arrested for animal cruelty had past records of other violent crimes.<\/li>\n
  54. Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states.<\/li>\n
  55. Hoarding of animals exists in virtually every community. Well-intentioned people overwhelmed by animal overpopulation crisis.<\/li>\n
  56. The consequences for hoarders, their human dependents, animals, and the community are extremely serious- and often fatal for animals.<\/li>\n
  57. Declawing is a painful mutilation that involves 10 amputations – not just the nails – but the ends of toes (bone and all).<\/li>\n
  58. The long-term effects of declawing include skin and bladder problems and the gradual weakening of cats’ legs, shoulders, and back.<\/li>\n
  59. Declawing is both painful and traumatic, and it has been outlawed in Germany and other parts of Europe as a form of cruelty.<\/li>\n
  60. Kangaroos are slaughtered by the millions every year; their skins are considered prime material for soccer shoes.<\/li>\n
  61. Across the US, 6 to 8 million stray and abandoned animals enter animal shelters every year, and about half must be euthanized.<\/li>\n
  62. In California, America’s top milk-producing state, manure from dairy farms has poisoned hundreds of square miles of groundwater.<\/li>\n
  63. Each of the more than 1 million cows on the state’s dairy farms excrete 18 gallons of manure daily.<\/li>\n
  64. Every year, the global leather industry slaughters more than a billion animals and tans their skins and hides.<\/li>\n
  65. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.<\/li>\n
  66. Every year, millions of animals are killed for the clothing industry.<\/li>\n
  67. An immeasurable amount of suffering goes into every fur-trimmed jacket, leather belt, and wool sweater.<\/li>\n
  68. Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.<\/li>\n
  69. On any given day in the U.S., there are more than 65 million pigs on factory farms, and 112 million are killed for food each year.<\/li>\n
  70. Every year, dogs suffer and die when left in a parked car- even for “just a minute” – parked cars are deathtraps for dogs.<\/li>\n
  71. Dog owners: On a 78 degree F day, the temperature in a shaded car is 90\u00b0F, in the sun it can climb to 160\u00b0F in minutes.<\/li>\n
  72. 98% of Americans consider pets to be companions or members of the family.<\/li>\n
  73. For medical experimentation animals can be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged.<\/li>\n
  74. Regardless of how trivial or painful animal experiments may be, none are prohibited by law.<\/li>\n
  75. When valid non-animal research methods are available, no law requires experimenters to use such methods instead of animals.<\/li>\n
  76. On average it takes 1,000 dogs to maintain a mid-sized racetrack operation. There are over 30 tracks in the United States.<\/li>\n
  77. Female cows are artificially inseminated shortly after their first birthdays. Happy birthday!<\/li>\n
  78. Birds don’t belong in cages. Bored, lonely, denied the opportunity to fly, deprived of companionship…<\/li>\n
  79. Many birds become neurotic in cages – pulling out feathers, bobbing their heads incessantly, and repeatedly pecking.<\/li>\n
  80. According to industry reports, more than 1 million pigs die en route to slaughter each year.<\/li>\n
  81. More than 100 million animals every year suffer and die in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, biology lessons, etc.<\/li>\n
  82. Approximately 9 billion chickens are raised and killed for meat each year in the U.S.<\/li>\n
  83. The industry refers to chickens as “broilers” and raises them in huge, ammonia-filled, windowless sheds with artificial lighting.<\/li>\n
  84. Some chickens spend their entire lives standing on concrete floors.<\/li>\n
  85. Some chickens are confined to massive, crowded lots, where they are forced to live amid their own waste.<\/li>\n
  86. Neglect\/Abandonment is the most prevalent form of animal abuse (approximately 36% of all animal abuse cases.)<\/li>\n
  87. Cows are treated like milk-producing machines and are genetically manipulated and pumped full of antibiotics and hormones.<\/li>\n
  88. Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of ducks and geese who have been cruelly force-fed.<\/li>\n
  89. The best way to save cows from the misery of factory farms is to stop buying milk and other dairy products. Discover soy!<\/li>\n
  90. A typical slaughterhouse kills about 1,000 hogs per hour.<\/li>\n
  91. The sheer number of animals killed makes it impossible for pigs’ deaths to be humane and painless.<\/li>\n
  92. Because of improper stunning, many hogs are alive when they reach the scalding hot water baths.<\/li>\n
  93. 13% of intentional animal abuse cases involve domestic violence.<\/li>\n
  94. Animal cruelty problems are people problems. When animals are abused, people are at risk.<\/li>\n
  95. Instead of improving conditions for animals, the dairy industry is exploring the use of genetically manipulated cattle.<\/li>\n
  96. More than half the fur in the US comes from China, where millions of dogs and cats are bludgeoned, hanged, and bled to death.<\/li>\n
  97. Millions of pounds of antibiotics are fed to chickens, who metabolize only about 20 percent of the drugs fed to them.<\/li>\n
  98. The 3 trillion pounds of waste produced by factory-farmed animals every year is usually used to fertilize crops.<\/li>\n
  99. Chaining dogs, while unfortunately legal in most areas, is one of the cruelest punishments imaginable for social animals.<\/li>\n
  100. Tens of thousands of horses from the United States are slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia.<\/li>\n
  101. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the US were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada\/Mexico.<\/li>\n
  102. Abusers kill, harm, or threaten children’s pets to coerce them into sexual abuse or to force them to remain silent about abuse.<\/li>\n
  103. There are no federal laws to regulate the voltage or use of electric prods on pigs.<\/li>\n
  104. Forty-one of the 45 state felony animal cruelty laws were enacted in the last two decades.<\/li>\n
  105. In the United States, 1.13 million animals were used in experiments in 2009, plus an estimated 100 million mice and rats.<\/li>\n
  106. As a result of disease, pesticides, and climate changes, the honeybee population has been nearly decimated.<\/li>\n
  107. Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.<\/li>\n
  108. Cows have a natural lifespan of about 20 years and can produce milk for eight or nine years.<\/li>\n
  109. A fur coat is pretty cool- for an animal to wear.<\/li>\n
  110. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.<\/li>\n
  111. Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods available: suffocation, electrocution, gassing, and poisoning.<\/li>\n
  112. In addition to diarrhea, pneumonia, and lameness, calves raised for veal are terrified and desperate for their mothers.<\/li>\n
  113. During Canada’s annual commercial seal slaughter, as many as 300,000 seals are shot or bludgeoned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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