what are some subtopics for animal cruelty?

Answer 1

Animal fighting. Historically bull baiting, bear baiting, and modern day dog and **** fighting. Animal fighting has been around for ages. The Great Aux was made extinct by hunting for the displays in the Roman Coliseum.

Animal abuse. Abuse of animals is one of the three signs of a future serial killer.

Poaching. Whether or not you define hunting as cruelty, the destruction of protected animals certainly is. My opinion is hunting for food need not be cruel, hunting for sport need not be cruel, canned hunting is cruel. Hunting for entertainment, such as when railroaders would drive through herds of buffalo and slaughter them, is cruel. Taking shark fins and flaying live turtles is cruel.

Bullfighting. Make sure you discuss the difference between Mexican/Spanish bullfighting and Portuguese bullfighting, where the bull is usually, but not always killed. When the Portuguese bullfight is over, the bull is usually butchered, but sometimes returned to stud. Therefore Portuguese bullfighting allows the bull to act in a normal way and is then killed humanely.

Factory farming. Some people go so far as to say all animal husbandry is cruel. Cows should not be raised for meat. Here is the problem though (and my argument is taken from Covenant with the Wild by Stephan Budiansky). The purpose of any animal--human or livestock or wild thing--is to perpetuate its own DNA and to a lesser extent the DNA of the species. Animal husbandry allows some species to be VERY VERY successful. When discussing megafauna (large animals), there are approximately 1.2 million elephants in all of Africa. There are 3 million cows in California.

Now I am not going to argue that the life of a cow on a feedlot is pleasant, but I am going to repeat Budiansky's argument that if the purpose of an individual of a species is to promote species growth, then cows have made the right choice.

Which is not to say that animals cannot be treated more humanely in the ways they are fed, housed, and even led to slaughter. Dr. Temple Grandin has done some admirable work in designing slaughterhouses in such a way that the animals are not panicked as they are brought in.

Answer 2

http://www.atourhands.com/pigs.html

Here are pig 'farrowing' stalls: The mother pig gives birth in a barred area so small she isn't even able to turn around to clean or nuzzle her new born.

http://tomregan-animalrights.com/archive/farrow.html

Then there's the gestation crates, that cause their own host of problems: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/campaign/gestation_evidence.htm

When people think of animal abuse, they naturally think of something along the line of a starving horse, a kicked dog, a poached elephant, an exploited monkey. People need to realize one of the biggest accounts is how our food is raised.

This is just the 'pork' aspect. In addition to these inhumane ways of 'farming', I've seen videos of people slamming piglets against walls, stomping on hogs, hanging hogs by lifting by the neck with a crane while workers stand around laughing watching the hog kick, for the last time.

Answer 3

Circuses, megafarms, issues like that. something contemporary-eventy could be aquariums. they would not seem merciless, yet they confine animals in extremely unnatural strategies. for example, did you recognize that for the period of the wild a dolphin will swim 40-one hundred miles an afternoon? In aquariums, they're caught in a tumbler container doing circles till they pass loopy. Plus, in aquariums, animals have shorter lifespans and are in many cases much less healthful than in the wild. desire that helps!

Answer 4

punishment of offenders, prevention

Answer 5

malnourishment
experimentation
neglection
mistreatment

hope this helps
I'll add more when I think of them