Suppose you are the manager of a sanctuary for chickens. An infectious virus is spreading through the sanctuary and you have to decide whether to kill one infected chicken or allow the virus to spread throughout the sanctuary, killing a larger number. Now what? Your responsibility as manager of the sanctuary is to promote the aggregate health and well-being of all the chickens in your care.
If this means you have to kill one chicken to save many more, so be it. When we think about cases where animal lives are at stake, we often tend to think in utilitarian terms. When we think about cases where human lives are at stake, we often tend to think in deontological terms. Even animal activists, committed to a view of animals and humans as moral equals, may be inclined to see animals and humans from these differing perspectives.
At an animal activist conference in Melbourne last year before the pandemic we divided the audience into small groups and gave them different scenarios featuring different species.
An informal experiment, but it seems to illustrate a very human tendency to think of animals and humans according to different standards. That tendency has been observed in many contexts. Robert Nozick influentially discusses a bifurcated view along these lines in his classic Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Every year, many animals suffer violence and die at the hands of humans. Necessary steps need to be taken for the protection of animals. People, who own pets, should be responsible towards the needs of their pet, else not adopt one.
Any form of cruelty against animals, if and when witnessed, should reported to the police or concerned authorities immediately. Parents must educate children to respect animals and treat them with kindness.
Just as not reporting any crime against humans is a crime, witnessing cruelty against animals and not reporting it is a crime as well. We must be kind towards animals. Witnessing cruelty against animals can be an upsetting experience, but one must know how to handle the situation so as to prevent the animal from future abuse. Provide immediate veterinary care to the abused or else call animal care helpline.
We must also familiarise ourselves with animal protection laws so that while filing a complaint, one knows the technicalities. Notifying concerned authorities and educating students and adults will go a long way in preventing animal abuse. Animal cruelty is real and pervasive.
It happens to all types of animals in every corner of the world. Animals are capable of love and creating social relationships, and also experience pain, fear and desperation. Thus, it becomes the duty of humans to prevent cruelty against animals. Teach school and college students to respect animals via seminars in their respective educational institutions.
Parents should be a role model to their kids and show kindness towards animals. Children, who are cruel to animals, often grow up to be insensitive. Government shelters and NGOs should provide temporary homes to animals who are abused, injured or sick and need time to recover.
People, who have pets at their homes, should be responsible enough to take care of their pets. Animal lovers should also provide shelter to animals in need or seek help from animal helpline numbers. If one witnesses cruelty against animals, it should be reported immediately.
People of all ages must be taught to respect animals and treat them with love and consideration. There ia also an urgent need to make animal welfare laws stronger. High penalties should be charged on the guilty to set an example for others not to ill-treat animals. Inform the government veterinary hospitals about animals in suffering to seek help. Millions of animals are killed every for human consumption and in laboratories for medical researches while most of the animals are kept under observation for testing of cosmetic products, medicines and many more.
The government should take stick action towards people who are charged guilty of cruelty against animals. To keep a check on brutal treatment against animals, it is important to keep an eye on the population of street animals. Highly growing population of animals in urban areas may lead to insecurity among people and cause resistance in the busy life of people.
It is not hidden that kids are not safe owing to overpopulation of stray dogs. All these circumstances give rise to cruel and brutal treatment against animals. By regular monitoring and supervising particular areas, we all can contribute in protecting animals from cruelty.
In extreme cases of animal cruelty, it becomes the responsibility of the witness to call animal services agency. Ill-treatment towards animals can only be stopped if strict laws are enforced for their protection. Teaching children to have respect for animals is the first step towards this. Report animal cruelty and abuse, and intervene if you can to prevent animal cruelty. Animal cruelty is the abuse toward or neglect of an animal.
Some aspects of animal cruelty involve purposefully putting animals in situations that harm, scare and terrorise them while others simply result from people looking the other way. However, animal cruelty takes place every day at all places and not just in the world of industrial animal culture.
But we can check brutality against animals by putting in little efforts. Report animal cruelty, abuse or neglect to the police or concerned authorities. Act immediately to prevent future cruelty. Teach children to have respect for animals and set a good example by being respectful towards them.
Help them to grow up to become the next generation of advocates for animals. Demand stricter laws for the protection of animals.
Stronger animal welfare laws and harsher penalties will lead to fewer cruelty cases. Educate people around you about the issue. Help people to understand that they can intervene in situations where animals are being neglected or even tormented. Whatever the reasons may be, an affected pet must be removed from a place of neglect and given the care it needs to live and thrive. Measures to control cruel and brutal treatment to animals will depend on the situation. The first situation is when the animals are transported unauthorised from one station to another for killing purposes.
There must be proper check by the police that the movement is duly authorised. Further, in such cases, animals are cruelly treated to board the vehicles. The transporter must be kind to the animals, board them properly and drive the vehicle smoothly on the road to reach the destination. The unkind drivers should be heavily fined including confiscation of their vehicles. Another situation is that the animals have become useless for the owner and the former are left to go anywhere either on the road side or in the streets or to damage the crops in the fields.
In this, the owners must be identified, legal proceedings initiated against them and punished under the prevalent law with fine. Animal are as righteous for living on earth as we are. Do what you can to stop someone from mistreating an animal. If necessary, seek help from other witnesses. Report animal cruelty, abuse or neglect. If you witness any form of animal cruelty, report it to the police or other authorities. Act immediately to prevent further cruelty.
Teach your children to have respect for animals. Set a good example by being respectful towards animals. Show children how to treat animals with love and consideration.
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