This alert is for U.S. residents only. Arthritis is agonizing, and for captive elephants, it can be a death sentence. Video footage shows that for months now, animal exhibitor Hugo Liebel has been forcing an elephant named Nosey to give rides, even though she appears to be hobbled by pain. The U.S. via Pocket
We have yet to find a “humane” factory farm where animals don’t have their tails cut off and their ears painfully notched, where they aren’t debeaked, dehorned, or castrated without anesthesia, where they aren’t kept in crowded conditions without sunlight or fresh air, where they don’t have their beloved children taken away from them, where they aren’t denied the companionship of others, where they aren’t sent to a feedlot, or where they are instantly dispatched without the trauma of capture, the horror of transportation, or the terror of seeing other animals killed before suffering the same fate.
Each year, thousands of bulls are tortured and killed in bullrings throughout Spain.
Prior to the fight, bulls are intentionally debilitated in various ways: They’re often deprived of food and a few inches of their horns are sometimes sawed off to expose the nerve and impair their coordination in an illegal practice called “shaving.” And a study at Spain’s Salamanca University revealed that 20 percent of the bulls used for fighting are drugged before they enter the ring.
I’m really sick of people telling me that. Don’t try to fight my logical and ethical reasoning as to why I don’t eat animals
