Re: Arrested for animal cruelty
Please understand I am an animal rights activist and speak up for all animals including hamsters. Also, I think they are darn cute and it sickens me what this young man might have done to this innocent animal.
I had a moment of fleeting happiness to think our Canadian laws really do protect the innocent and that we do collectively have the ethics and morals of a society that we care enough to see this as a "news" story. A very fleeting moment indeed.
Everyday hundreds of thousands of animals are cruelty abused in Canada. Piglets have their teeth, tails and testicles cut off without anesthetic. Mother pigs are confined in horrible crates and electrically prodded into gas chambers. Calves are taken from their mothers hours after their birth And are either shot, abandoned, sent to slaughter or put in lonely little hutches. Male chicks are macerated at birth and females chicks have their sensitive beaks burned off and place in overcrowded, filthy cages. Many are raised for a few weeks on the floor living in their own filth. Many suffer broken legs and ammonia burns. Goats have their sensitive little horns burned off. Farmed ducks never see water. Geese have their down ripped for their bodies.
During the pandemic Canada is culling hundreds of thousands of animals that are caught up in the corrupt animal agriculture Industry.
Across the country dogs, rabbits, mice, chimps, cats, pigs, etc. are being tortured by people in white coats in the name of science.
I understand the act of "posting" the cruelty imposed on this poor hamster is probably more of the news story than the actual crime committed.
Therefore, I suggest if animal activist groups have undercover videos of animals being horrifically abused on so-called "farms" and "research centres" across the nation — is their story worth a "news story" too?
Carla Irvine