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Some studies have suggested that individuals who are cruel to animals are more likely to be violent to humans. According to The New York Times: . The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appear in its computer records of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists ...
The use of animals in the circus has been controversial since animal welfare groups have documented instances of animal cruelty during the training of performing animals. Animal abuse in circuses has been documented such as keeping them in small enclosures, lack of veterinary care, abusive training methods, and lack of oversight by regulating ...
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice – and that is precisely why we are under the obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals. [2]
The hope seems to be that we can eliminate what we don’t like about animal agriculture — hurting animals — and keep what we do — being able to eat them, without feeling badly about it ...
Lithograph of the Ravi Varma Press in Bombay displaying punishments for activities like mutilating animals, killing fishes, forging documents, alcohol consumption, abuse of elderly parents, hunting, adultery (for women), advising to commit sin, adultery (for men), mistreatment the children of co-wives & making draught animals pull excess load ...
Primatt held that pain is evil and humans have no right to inflict it on animals or each other. [1] He commented that "pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or on beast". [8] It was one of the first books to argue for the compassionate treatment of animals and influenced the animal welfare movement. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Almost 2 million men and women who served in Iraq or Afghanistan are flooding homeward, profoundly affected by war. Their experiences have been vivid. Dazzling in the ups, terrifying and depressing in the downs. The burning devotion of the small-unit brotherhood, the adrenaline rush of danger, the nagging fear and loneliness, the pride of service.
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