Animal Rights:
By: Ashley Mcpherson
• Three important ways the U.S could enforce
animal rights are forbidding fighting dogs, not
using animal fur for clothing/products and
eliminating hunting seasons.
• Dog fighting is a form of blood sport in which
game dogs are made to fight, sometimes to
the death. It is illegal in most developed
countries. Dog fighting is used for
entertainment and may also generate revenue
from stud fees, admission fees and gambling.
• Even though we know dog fighting is wrong
some people still do it unfortunately.
• Animal rights advocates say that there are
about 30 dog fighting rings on the southern
Virginia border. Michael Vick, the superstar
professional quarterback for the Philadelphia
Eagles, now an inmate was caught for dog
fighting in April 2007 .
• In my state, Kentucky, we have different views
on what is animal cruelty and what is not.
“Kentucky is known to be a terrible place to
be an animal”, says an unknown source. “The
laws allow people in the state to still have
cockfights.”
• “Animals are not ours to use for food, clothing,
entertainment, experimentation, or any other
reason. By switching to a plant-base diet, human
societies will be able to alleviate the needless
suffering and deaths of countless animals, the
irreparable damage done onto the earth like air
and water pollution, the erosion of lands, waste of
precious energy, and deforestation. Raising and
eating meat leaves behind an environmental toll
that generations to come will be forced to pay.”
Says www.happycow.net.
• Today the majority of farmed animals are:
• confined to the point that they can barely
move,
• denied veterinary care,
• mutilated without painkillers,
• and finally slaughtered (often while fully
conscious. )
Some videos you can watch include:
Egg Farm
Turkey slaughter
Pig Farm
Kosher slaughter
These are the videos the government doesn’t
want you to see.
• Visit the website for these videos and more
information at www.chooseveg.com
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• Why would people harm animals just to get
fur clothing or accessories? We may all ask this
question but never get the right answer. In an
article I read about how the killing of these
animals for their fur works. Foxes, raccoons,
minks, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, opossums,
nutria, beavers, muskrats, otters and many
other fur-bearing animals are killed daily on fur
farms by anal and vaginal electrocution and in
the wild by drowning, trapping or beating. They
do this to not damage their fur.
• “The encouragement of a proper hunting spirit, a
proper love of sport, instead of being incompatible
with a love of nature and wild things, offers the
best guaranty for their preservation.”
- U.S. President and Nobel Prize winner
Theodore Roosevelt
• Unlike 10,000 years ago, today the vast
majority of hunters does not need to hunt in
order to survive. Most hunters hunt just for
fun. They will even bring their children on their
hunting trips, teaching them a complete
disrespect for life by needlessly killing innocent
creatures.
• Hunters spend billions of dollars each years
on guns, ammunition, travel and other
expenses, making hunting a very profitable
industry.
• Here are the numbers, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, the International Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies, and other public sources:
• $746 million — Annual amount of money spent by hunters in
the United States on licenses and public land access fees
alone. Sportsmen’s licensing revenues account for more than
half of all funding for state natural resource agencies
• $300 million — Additional monies contributed to
wildlife conservation every year by the more than 10,000
private hunting-advocate organizations, like the National Wild
Turkey Federation, Ducks Unlimited, and the Rocky Mountain
Elk Foundation
• $4.2 billion — Amount of money sportsmen have contributed
to conservation through a 10% federal excise taxes on
firearms, ammunition, and gear since the 1937 PittmanRobertson Act established the tax. Millions of acres of publicuse land has been purchased, preserved, and maintained with
this money
• For a long time animals have been used as fur,
leather and wool. They have to go through a very
painful process . The animals that are a victim of
cruelty are placed in wired uncleanly cages and go
through all weather conditions and chemicals
with no food or water. When the animals have
been shipped and the truck is being unloaded the
workers throw the cages, kick, stomp on and
poke the animal. To kill the animals the people use
suffocation, gas chambers and poison and then
the animals are then shipped to the company to
be skinned. This is a painful process for the
animals and their are no pain killers involved in
the process.
• "I don't understand why asking people to eat a
well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered
drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut
people open and put them on cholesterollowering drugs for the rest of their lives."
-Dean Ornish, MD
• "An estimated 85 percent of all U.S agricultural
land is used in the production of animal foods,
which in turn is linked with deforestation,
destruction of wildlife species, extinction of
species, loss of soil productivity, mineral deletion
and erosion, water pollution and depletion,
overgrazing, and desertification."
Dr. Michael W. Fox, Agricide
• There are lots of reasons “For” hunting and a lot “Against” it.
Here are some:
• FOR
 The injury rate for hunting is lower than that of some other
forms of physical recreation, such as football and bicycling.
 Hunters argue that hunting is a tradition, a ritual or a bonding
experience.
• AGAINST
 Lands managed for hunting are sometimes purchased and
maintained with tax dollars, even though 95% of Americans do
not hunt.
 Opponents also argue that hunting does not reduce the deer
population because removing some individuals from the
population results in more food per deer, which leads to the
births of more twins and triplets.
• While driving across the country you will find
several "cockfighting corridors," a strip of
states stretching from Ohio to Alabama. In
these states, the penalties for cockfighting are
so little that cockfighting enthusiasts flock
there.
• The dogs used are mostly pit bulls. They
literally bite and rip the flesh off each other
while the crowd cheer, scream, and place bets
on which dog will win the match. After the
fight, both dogs are wounded badly, usually
with bleeding, ruptured lungs, broken bones,
and other life threatening injuries. Generally,
the loser of a match dies or is killed.
• Most people that believe in animal rights are
vegan. Also, most vegans believe that it is a
much healthier lifestyle then eating beef, pork
and other meats.
• The ways you can prevent animal cruelty
includes:
 Banning any kind of animal fighting in every
state.
 Stop using animal fur for clothing or products
 Eliminating hunting seasons.
 Stop animal testing.
 You can do all these things by starting a
protest with family and friends or even other
people that are against animal cruelty.
• Fur, wool, silk and leather are the most
popular clothing animals are killed and
slaughtered for.
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