According to a study, in 200 years of animal welfare concerns, cruelty remains a significant issue.
Recently, a video showed two workers beating and kicking a dog inside a pet clinic. A few hours after a video showing two employees of a veterinary clinic abusing a dog went viral on social media, the Manpada police in Thane investigated the incident and filed a report. According to the police, they have filed a non-cognizable offence complaint against the two males.
Officials from the police department said that on Tuesday morning, a video showing two employees of a veterinary clinic beating and kicking a dog inside the clinic’s grounds went viral on social media.
Animal agriculture is typically associated with the raising of hogs and cattle for food. Even though we are unaware of it, animals are used for much more than just meat and have a significant impact on our daily lives. Animals supply a variety of chemicals, molecules, and materials that are useful in the production of common goods.
These are seven occasionally unexpected ways that animals improve human lives:
l Clothing
l Cosmetics and beauty products
l Sports equipments
l Gummy candy
l Medicines
l Adhesives
l Plastic
Rishi Sahay, an IT professional and an animal rights activist based in Hyderabad, shares, “When it comes to comprehending the intricacies of sentience and its existence and configuration, our understanding is still incomplete. Since vertebrate species have been the subject of most research to date, the majority of knowledge currently exists about them. Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that at least some kinds of vertebrates are sentient.”
Most research on animal sentience so far has concentrated on the more unpleasant components of experience, like pain and suffering. He further points out, “While the evidence from this research has helped promote good practice changes, a comprehensive understanding and resolution of animal needs is necessary for actual improvements in animal welfare. Sentient animals have ongoing needs and desires since they are thinking and feeling beings. As a result, it is impossible to predict with certainty what an animal would prioritise at any given time because a choice could be influenced by a variety of unidentified factors.”
Types of animal cruelty
Ignorance
When an animal receives inadequate care and suffers as a result, it is considered neglected. Animal hoarding is a particularly serious form of this. Animal hoarders are distinguished by their ownership of a larger than average number of animals, their inability to give the animals the basic care they need, and their denial that they cannot support the animals.
Willful
To intentionally injure an animal is to engage in animal cruelty. Examples include torturing animals, overworking horses or other animals, and animal fighting.
According to the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, if a person beats, kicks, or causes any pain or suffering, confines any animal in a cage, fails to provide animals with sufficient food, etc., they will be punished.
The struggle for animal welfare keeps getting wider.
The physical surroundings and resources an animal has access to, such as bedding material and space allocation, as well as the management techniques the animal is subjected to, such as feeding schedules and transportation plans, all have an impact on the welfare of the animal.
What Are Some Examples of Animal Rights?
Right to be free from torture
Right to be free from death
Right to be free from confinement
“Although many do, most nations have very little or no legislation pertaining to animal welfare. Although they fail to question the position of animals as property rather than people, animal welfare laws — even those with shaky enforcement — effectively recognise a severely watered-down version of animal rights by recognising that animals are legally separate from inanimate objects. While this is still a long way from complete acknowledgment of rights, it is a start in the right direction,” highlights Shiva Reddy, an animal rights and welfare activist.
Though there have been multiple laws and initiatives around animal cruelty, activists stress the need for stricter and much better laws to come into force.
