Some facts about animal cruelty are as follows:
1. Cows produce milk for the same reason that human’s do- to nourish their young - but on dairy farms calves are taken away at 1 day old.
2.1 day old calves are fed milk replacements (including cattle blood) so that their mothers' milk can be sold to humans.
3. Animals can suffer brain damage or death from heatstroke in just 15 minutes. Beating the heat is extra tough for dogs.
3. Each year, approximately 10,000 bulls die in bullfights.
4. Most cows are intensively confined, unable to fulfill their most basic desires, such as nursing their calves, even for a single day.
5. Cows are fed unnatural, high-protein diets-which include dead chickens, pigs, and other animals.
6. Overall, factory-farmed animals, including those on dairy farms, produce 1.65 billion tons of manure each year.
7. Kid goats are boiled alive to make gloves.
8. The skins of unborn calves and lambs - some aborted, others from slaughtered pregnant cows - are considered "luxurious."
8. About 285 million hens are raised for eggs in the US. In tiny spaces so small they cannot move a wing.
9. Declaring is a painful mutilation that involves 10 amputations - not just the nails - but the ends of toes (bone and all).
10. Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states.
11. The wire mesh of the cages rubs off hen’s feathers, chafes their skin, and causes their feet to become crippled.
12. Before 1986, only four states had felony animal cruelty laws.
13. Humane treatment is not a priority for those who poach and hunt animals to obtain their skin.
14. Alligators on farms may be beaten with hammers and axes, sometimes remaining conscious and in pain for 2 hours after skinning.
