Animal cruelty or cruelty towards animals is referred to treatment or standards of care that cause unnecessary suffering or harming animals. Cruelty towards animals is always a punishable offence and Standards of both animal cruelty legislation and enforcement differs between different places from non-existent through to complete, and the acts and conditions which are considered "cruel" also differ. The options are divided into different practices like factory farming, fur farming and animal testing of medical procedures and consumer products posing a major moral issue.
There are certain cases in which the cruelty towards animals is because of a deliberate wish to be unfair called as zoosadism. This has been liked with abuse and cruelty to people. Some extreme cases of cruelty to animals sometimes have occurred as a rehearsal and sometimes as an aspect of development.
Certain laws and regulations have been introduced against animal cruelty and many jurisdictions around the world have enacted statues which prohibit cruelty to some animals.
| These include Animal Protection Laws of the USA & Canada (2007) or Cruelty to Animals Acts in the United States (2001). These statues provide less to fewer requirements for care and treatment of animals and it never requires that animals are provided with shelter, food, water and medical treatment. Animals not be tortured or killed in an inhumane manner. Some other practices even if they are not included in the enforcement of laws against cruelty. |
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In some countries like the Massachusetts and New York the agents working in the humane societies and associations are appointed as special officers who enforce the statutes that outlaw the animal cruelty. Brute Force: Animal Police and the Challenge of Cruelty by Arnold Arluke is an ethnographic study of these special humane law enforcement officers. In the year 2004 a legislation was passed in Florida proposed a ban on "cruelty to bovines" this stated that "A person who, for the purpose of practice, entertainment, or sport, intentionally fells, trips, or otherwise causes a cow to fall or lose its balance by means of roping, lassoing, dragging, or otherwise touching the tail of the cow commits a misdemeanor of the first degree."
Animal cruelty has been classified into several sections including Cruelty to animals in film making, Cruelty to animals in the military, animal abuse in the circus. Responding to the developing discomfort from the public about using animals in entertainment the circuses are now formed of without animals cropping up around the globe.
By browsing the page on Animal Health you can acquire related and associated information about animal cruelty.
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