why are human beings so cruel to animals.?

Answer 1

What is cruel is killing an animal and letting it rot. Hunting for sport is barbaric and inhumane. The thought that someone can go into nature and blow a moose or duck or deer out of existance and get PLEASURE from that is insane. And they try to to excuse that murder by saying they eat the meat. Meantime, hundreds of thousands of pounds of chicken and beef are thrown away daily because it goes past the expiration date.

That's what I don't understand. Taking pleasure in going into the wild and blowing an animal's brains out.

Answer 2

Human beings at times express cruelty towards animals for the only reason that they are the lower species. In the present scenario... the metal age we are passing through we find human beings acting even in a more bestial manner than the animals.

Might is right is the order of the day. Sometimes it becomes difficult to distinguish human beings from animals. This situation is already spelt out in the sacred scriptures that humanity shall face this era of Kali Yuga when morality and ethics would be at its lowest ebb.

The infighting between the followers of various religions is no less full of cruelty. The degeneration in the human values owes its existence to the materialistic tendencies which are at its peak. All would end with the start of third world war around 2012.

Cruelty towards animals is in spite of the fact that human beings know that all animals have a soul within them. And this soul within animals is of the same essence as the soul inside a human being. In the circumstances how can human beings torture and kill animals! More here- http://www.godrealized.org/do_animals_have_a_soul.html

Answer 3

human beings are cruel in general, to all animals including other human beings.

I personally do not think it's "cruel" to kill and eat other animals -- we are carnivores, we evolved from carnivores, and animal protein is an excellent food source with a large amount of energy in a small package. There's nothing cruel about eating the way we have been for a million years or so.
But humans often go beyond simply killing to satisfy their needs for food -- just as they often kill other humans for pleasure, for power, out of greed, out of jealousy, etc. The Native Americans had a great idea of balance -- they believed it was wrong to kill for "sport," and that killing any animal beyond what you needed to survive was wrong. They also had the idea of thanking the animals they killed to eat for giving up their lives so that humans could live. If more of us had that idea of not torturing, killing for sport, or killing beyond what we needed to survive I think the world would be a much nicer place :)

Answer 4

A man living in a society should make a show of tamas to protect himself from evil minded persons. But he should not harm anybody in anticipation of harm likely to be done by him.

To have your answer I believe we ahould first understand that human kind have sinful tendencies st the physical plane.

Understand God created this maya under this a person may read the Bhagavat by the light of lamp , and another may commit forgery by that veyr light, but the lamp is unaffected

At times a person mend himself wicked as well as virtuous deeds. Not all people cruel to animals..I believe you are kind and affectionate to animals as your God father in Heaven.

Answer 5

because a long time ago it was necessary to hunt animals to survive (to eat and for fur).

most races respected the animals they killed, it was only when people started killing animals for trivial things (ie: elephant tusks for ivory, minsk fur...) that animals became more of an object to be exploited than breathing living things just like us.

when europeans started going to the states hundreds of years ago, they imposed themsleves over the native americans, completely abused the animals there and stole the native's land.

we are cruel (i hate saying we, but i guess i have to include myself, i do wear leather shoes) to animals because they aren't vital anymore and we forget that they exist (by polluting, not cutting six pack bear plastic up...).

i wish it would stop, a lot of beautiful animals are becoming extinct. it's such a pity, and it was fine when there were just as many humans as animals, but they're outnumbered now.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

For the same reason that some human beings are cruel to children. They have such low self esteem that this is the way they feel empowered.

Answer 8

Because they see them as 'animals,' separate from humans. We too are animals, connected with everything in this world. Empathy is what we need.

But I myself am an animal-lover! I'm a vegetarian and have pet sheep, cats, chickens, gerbils and a horse! And I love and look after them all dearly!
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Answer 9

I think a more important question is why are humans being to cruel to other humans

Answer 10

I think the answer lies in this question:

"Why are human beings so cruel to their fellow human beings?".