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