Life Of Torture

“They are an animal that possess great spiritual power, something that shouldn’t be messed with” Throughout the documentary Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s is asking why we as humans do this to our animals, why we take them away from their family’s and home’s, lock them up in small room, force them to preform day after day in front of people paying for them to be tortured. A powerful message that should be endorsed and further taken seriously by all civilians.

Saving animals is one objective, but placing an animal in captivity is another. The animals are aware of their surroundings and probably remember where they came from. Just because animals cannot speak, it doesn’t mean that they don’t understand what is going on. So, when placing an animal in a thousand square foot cage, compared to their

In “An Animal’s Place”, by Michael Pollan many people are not knowledgeable on how animals are being treated. Initially, Pollan discusses that animals are not getting the right they are suppose to have. According to Pollan, “ The measure of their suffering is not their prior experiences but the unremitting

In the National Geographic article, “Why all of Americas circus animals could soon be free”, it talks about the stress animals endure from being on the road, being forced to perform, and traveling in confined spaces. The President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle, says “Wild animals, even if they are born in captivity retain all their natural instincts, which are thwarted when they’re trapped in small cages”. Therefore, they are prevented from being able to use their natural instincts and are forced to perform natural physical acts like balancing on a tightrope and chairs. When the animals don’t cooperate, they may be hit or disciplined in some way, whipped, or deprived of food. Elephants are struck with sharp metal poles beginning at an early age until they learn to

There isn’t a morally decent person on earth who wouldn’t cringe in revulsion at this heinous crime. Yet these are probably the same cheering spectators who gladly spend their money watching imprisoned creatures perform for their amusement. This practice of capturing large, intelligent animals and holding them in small, enclosed “habitats” for our benefit is barbaric and

Think about how we will look back on our cruel forms of entertainment in the future. Will we be proud of the way we treated these great animals, with abuse as neglect? Today we turn our heads away from reality and what happens behind the scenes of animal entertainment. However, we can’t turn our heads forever. Around the world, there is so much more to animal entertainment than what meets the eye. These animals have been torn away from their beautiful, natural homes and brought to a prison of concrete. In these prisons, they are beaten, starved and tortured all for our money and entertainment. These animals lives should not be taken from them for us. Our money and happiness should not be worth these animal’s lives. Circus, theme park and zoo animals all suffer from aggression towards trainers, mental disabilities and physical injuries. These animals should not have to suffer any longer.

You awake with a breeze twirling with the fragments of hair left on your scalp; a dance known only to friends of the oncoming light. You open your eyes only to see the endless ocean in the sky. You do not see your family, nor your friends. You demand your legs and arms to function, they do not. You beg them to work the one time you need them to, and in defiance to the groan of your bones, you stand. You begin to wonder if this is a dream, a nightmare. It’s not real. I will see them when I wake up. They are fine. It’s not real. The earth rises and in its presence is the rubble of your home, your brother’s home, and your neighbor’s home, scattered and utterly destroyed. With a horrible realization, you start screaming for the arms of your children and wife to wrap around you once again. You can’t hear yourself scream. You can’t hear anything except the deafening silence. You drop to our knees while your eyes are drowned in a river of sorrow. Then, you feel the small hands of your children grasp yours with surprising fierceness. Though your wife is nowhere to be seen in the mist of dust, you have never been so relieved to bask in the mist of ruins and death.

How would you feel? Imagine your family takes you to a dark street or the middle of nowhere. They leave you on the side of the street or road and walk away from you and get in a car with no hesitation. Hours, days, and weeks pass and you are walking around looking for your family. Your hair is messy, your clothes are dirty and with holes in them and you have scars everywhere and you are starving and scared. Everyone is looking at you as if you are a ‘walking trashcan’ and children that used to love playing with you when you were with your family are now running away from you, screaming and acting like you are a monster. Time passes again and then guys with big cages and nets looking scary, force you into the cage, and drive you to a place where people are looking at you just like you are. You stay there hoping your family would be one the person looking at you but your family doesn’t come back for you. The people that come to look at you do not wish to take you home. How would you feel? This might sound like a nightmare story written for a movie to you, but it actually is a true story of animals that are abandoned by their owners. When their owners abandon animals, these poor helpless animals are usually dumped out on the streets and are left all alone. As this commercial “Gift” from Zoetis

Not only are these animals being deprived of a normal life, they are having their freedom stolen from them. Some of these animals belong in the wild, like the monkeys. They weren't meant to be taken from the wild and put in cages and experimented on everyday. These animals have their children taken from them. And their well being. Nothing deserves this kind of torture and torment. It's not right in fact it's just cruel.

It is referred to as a repetitive locomotion stereotype. During the progression of the behavior over time, the intensity changes. When the animal initially begins the pacing, they may be easily distracted by sights or sounds. However, after some period of time, the animal may appear in a “trance,” unable to break their pace or gaze. This is what we so often see in zoos – the apparent detachment from their environment” (Di Lamont). This fact is stating how captivity could affect animals’ mental health very strongly. Also, “Zoos, contrary to what many people believe, often cause great suffering and stress to the captive animals. Animals in zoos are caged for life and deprived of the opportunity to develop and fulfill the full range of their interests and needs. They lose control over their lives and the environment they live in. Social animals are often forced to live in the misery of solitary confinement. Animals who would prefer to live alone are often forced into close contact with others” (“Zoos”). Animals suffer because of how different their

Just imagine if it was you who is locked in that cage waiting to be tortured and killed, imagine the agony, the suffer, the pain. Animals feel the same way you would feel or even worst because they are innocent and they cannot speak for themselves. Animals are not things to be used for experiments. Animals should be free in their natural habitat. If it’s inhumane for humans, then why do we allow it on animals? There is no difference between a child and a dog, a man and a rat. We all feel love, we all feel pain and we all deserve freedom. We must do something about it, we must cooperate somehow to end the millions of torturing of animals in laboratories “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake” (Martin Luther King Jr.) The well being of humans cannot justify the torturing, exploiting of thousands of animals per year to perform laboratory experiments or to test products. Animals must be treated with respect, love and compassion and the practices in laboratories do not uphold the right of these animals all for the cost of vanity and the cost of selfish human gain. We must do stand up and speak for them. We are their

lessened with the advancements of technology and habitats almost identical to the lands of the animals’ home countries, the abuse has not only continued, but has worsened. The popularity and exploitation of animals in captivity has increased according to this statistic that shows that, “50 million children visit AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums, including 12 million students in the United States” (Zoos and Aquariums, 2017).

The International Non Governmental Organization working on human rights issues that I have chose is Freedom from Torture. This organization was formerly known as The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Their mission is to provide various forms of therapeutic care and assistance to survivors of torture. They are able to provide survivors of torture (the vast majority of which are refugees and asylum seekers_ with different therapies such as psychotherapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation, as well as individual, group, and family counseling. Further, the organization wants to ensure that the states or agencies responsible for torture are helf to full and public accountability. In addition, as a secondary goal, Freedom from Torture aim toe educate the public. They target both the general population and policy makers with hopes they will inspire more people to become actively involved in ensuring torture survivors are guaranteed their human rights nationally and internationally. (Freedom from

     Imagine yourself lying on an operating table, motionless, quiet. Above, you notice people standing over you. You try to speak but the words just cannot come out. Your arms feel as if they are plastered to the table. You begin to stand up but feel as if weights are strapped to your back and you are bound to the table. Suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your midsection. In and out, you see a surgeon slicing your body open with a scalpel. Every motion the masked person makes is as if you are being torn apart from the inside out. One would hope this would simply be a nightmare and they will wake up and everything will be fine. In this instance, this person will

With nearly millions of animals dying each year from being captive, or endangered species being hunted down and killed, we need to discover a new way of displaying that our world is full of beautiful animals and wildlife. Wild animals are suffering both physically and mentally from the lack of freedom that confinement imposes. These harmful environments are preventing animals from having the opportunity to live in, and be exposed to their natural habitats. Keeping animals imprisoned in cages and small enclosures just for the sake of human observation causes stress and frustration, which is risking animals overall health and well being. These morally unacceptable and cruel actions of retaining wild animals in captivity is certainly wrong.