LET US LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: DO NOT MUTILATE ANIMALS

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If I suggested that parts of your body, or of a loved one’s, be cut off without your consent—and without anesthesia—simply because it brings someone a financial benefit, what would you say?

Well, that is what we do to TRILLIONS (yes, with a T) of non-human animals, who feel great pain when they are subjected to this.

Animal mutilation on farms is a common practice in industrial livestock farming, where painful physical procedures are carried out without anesthesia or analgesia. These procedures include tail docking, beak trimming in birds, castration of pigs and cattle, and dehorning of cows, among others. These cruelties are often justified on economic or practical grounds, such as preventing animals from harming one another due to the overcrowding and stress they endure in intensive production environments.

One of the most significant problems associated with these barbaric practices is animal suffering, as they cause acute and chronic pain, and can severely affect animals’ overall well-being. In many cases, animals do not receive adequate pain management, which prolongs their suffering. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and other organizations have expressed concern about these practices and advocate for more humane and less invasive alternatives.

Amputations can best be prevented by improving livestock facilities—for example, by providing a more spacious and enriched environment for animals—which would reduce aggressive behavior and the problems associated with overcrowding. There are also less painful alternatives, such as the use of anesthesia and the development of non-surgical methods. The ideal solutions are extensive farming, in which animals live in freedom, and, above all, a vegan diet. Growing awareness of animal suffering has led some countries to ban mutilations, such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Switzerland, although they still prevail in most of the world.

WATCH VIDEO ABOUT ANIMAL MUTILATION

If we do not want this torture inflicted on us, why do we—farmers and consumers—inflict it on others?

The answer is as follows: because Homo sapiens is normally, by nature, primarily focused on satisfying their own needs and desires, and those of their children; and, to a lesser extent, those of other loved ones; and even less so, the interests of their tribe—that is, the national or other groups with which they identify.

Outside their microworld (themselves and the extensions of themselves), they usually care far less than they should about what happens to others or what they suffer—even if they donate a fee or some time to an NGO, or try to project, toward others and toward themselves, a rather hypocritical appearance of solidarity and humanitarianism, since that is what is socially approved in our society.

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LET US HAVE A BROADER AND MORE BENEVOLENT VISION!

ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT MUTILATIONS

Fortunately, we have an inner sense of justice that can help us with this. More concretely, there are several actions you can take to combat mutilation and other evils:

1. Take a stand against all kinds of barbaric practices, because once most voters do so, it is only a matter of time before politicians end up banning them, since what they usually want above all is votes.

2. Sign all kinds of campaigns against all kinds of animal abuse, like this one. SIGN NOW!

3. Consume plant-based products… Read more…

4. Share these kinds of messages… read more…

5. Contribute time and/or money to help put an end to these cruelties.

6. Other actions… read more…

LET US BE COMPASSIONATE AND CIVILIZED!

“What is troubling is not the wickedness of the wicked, but the indifference of the good.”

Martin Luther King

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