Welfare state

Thousands of cases of animal abuse are filed each year, but less than a quarter of them lead to convictions (Friedman 34). Many of these cases filed are due to the use of animals in entertainment. Today, places like zoos, circuses, bull fights, horse races, and others use animals as amusement. These entertainment industries thrive on well trained and compliant animals, which is difficult to achieve. Trainers then use punishment and cruelty to train and care for those animals. Entertainment…

“A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being” (“Animal Abuse Sayings and Quotes”). The frequent occurrence of animal abuse is shocking. The recurrence of animal abuse is no surprise. Animal cruelty happens in many different ways and is very common nowadays. If a human being endures beatings and neglect intentionally from another human being, the story can bring tears…

Animals getting captured and put up in zoos is a fast growing problem and it's harming innocent animals, this is a very important topic because by capturing animals we put them in danger of extinction and harms aquatic ecosystems, many marine mammals live in large groups and have a high life expectancy, but this greatly decreases when they are kept in captivity, animal captivity is a very common problem, and it is putting many marine species in danger of extinction and needs to be stop, because…

’There is nothing wrong with rearing and killing animals for consumption ’. Eating animals involves many aspects that may not be morally right. Philosophers may take into account violated rights, interests, human interests vs animal interests, rights argument and virtue ethics. Eating animals poses mainly two problems- is it wrong in principle to raise and kill animals so that human beings can eat meat and fish or Does it stop being wrong if the process involved are carried out humanely? These…

Chapter 2 Animal Abandonment Animal abandonment is a big problem. Most abandonment happens after abuse.Why not a lot people know. Imagine driving down the highway and seeing a beaten lonely hungry cold weak dog/cat.Awful right? That's what animal abandonment is. Not all animals are safe from danger in a shelter. Sometimes the shelters are the biggest enemy to lonely beaten abused and hungry cold weak animals. They give them a shelter and food for a couple days until the put…

Protection from Cats: Cats are a threat to birds as they kill them for food. These include loose pets, feral or strays cats. Pet owners and savvy backyard birders only need to take simple steps so as to protect their birds from cats. You don’t have to give up your pets. There are several methods which can be used for controlling the birds’ habitat and the behaviour of the cats. The number of injured and killed birds in your yard will be minimized. How to control Cat Behaviour It is hard for…

pleasure, they matter and we should consider them as equals. I agree with Singers point of view as an utilitarian, we are morally obligated to make more pleasure than pain, we can’t validate killing and eating animals because they taste good. Singer states that not all humans are equal in a factual sense and that we all have different mental capabilities and different sets of morals. Therefore, he concludes that equality is not based on achieving actual equality of all genders and races, but…

If you placed a child in the jungle all alone, what would become of him? Would the child be consumed, or would the animals raise him as one of their own? Jon Favreau showed that in the movie The Jungle Book. This movie is about Mowgli’s experience in the jungle after his parents had died while protecting him from a tiger. Abandoned by his father, Mowgli had been raised wolves and had become one himself, but was not completely accepted by the animals inhabiting the jungle. Shere Khan, the tiger…

Chapter Three The symbolism of animal farm The word “symbolism” is derived from the word “symbol”, which refers to the use of symbols, or a set of related symbols (Baldick 2000: 219). Symbolism can therefore be defined as the art of expressing ideas and emotions not by describing them directly, nor by defining them through overt comparisons with concrete images, but re-creating them in the mind of the reader through the use of unexplained symbols. (Chadwick 1971: 6) Symbolism is a kind of…

Ralph Woodley and his son Harvey went to visit the local zoo. After spending few hours there visiting the various exhibits, they decided to visit one final exhibit building. Although this building looked like all the rest at the zoo, it was set apart from the majority. Upon walking up to the building, they spotted a large dog that seemed friendly at first and it nuzzled them. In a playful manner, the son made a snowball to throw at his father, who ducked and inadvertently the dog got hit. This…