ANIMALS USED FOR ENTERTAINMENT
Animals don't want to ride motorcycles, wear costumes, walk tightropes, or jump through rings of fire. Sadly, they are forced to perform these difficult and often confusing feats because they fear an even worse alternative. Trainers use abusive weapons, like whips, axe handles, metal pipes, bullhooks, and electric prods to make animals perform demeaning tricks, and the animals know they will be viciously beaten if they are not done properly....MORE
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ANIMALS USED FOR FOOD
Over the past 60 years, meat, dairy and egg production in the United States has changed dramatically. Today's farms are not peaceful, idyllic, family farms where cows, pigs, and chickens live out their lives grazing in sunny, grass-filled farmyards, lovingly tended by farmers before being killed. Instead, the stark contrasting reality of today's industrialized factory farms find billions of animals crammed into dark, windowless warehouses where they suffer until they are transported in unimaginably cruel conditions before being brutally slaughtered....MORE
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ANIMALS USED FOR CLOTHING
The fashion industry frequently portrays fur coats and fur trim as symbols of elegance. But, the industry fails to show the not so elegant ways the original owners of these coats met their gruesome deaths. ...MORE
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VIVISECTION
An estimated 115 million mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, cats, dogs, primates, and other animals are cut, burned, shocked, drugged, starved, irradiated, blinded, and killed each year in the U.S. for biomedical experimentation, product and cosmetic testing, and in education...MORE
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COMPANION ANIMALS
We all know that a cute puppy or cuddly kitten is irresistible. Many of us consider our companion animals full-fledged members of our family. However, an estimated 5 to 8 million dogs and cats are killed in U.S. shelters each year, and millions more are left to die on the streets because there aren't enough homes for them. Despite this tragedy, millions of animals continue to be bred and sold each year by pet stores and breeders....MORE
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WILDLIFE
Nearly 20 acres of wildlife habitat are being lost to development every hour in Florida, forcing people and animals into closer and closer contact. As wildlife habitat gives way to urban sprawl, many of the former animal residents don't run away, but adapt with great resourcefulness to their new circumstances. When resulting conflicts between people and wildlife occur, the offending animals are usually trapped, shot, hooked, or poisoned. While killing wild animals may offer short term solutions, in the long run it is ineffective, inhumane, and ecologically unsound....MORE
