Animal Abuse Research Articles

Legal Criticism of The Conceptualization of The Legal Good Protected Against the Crime of Animal Abuse in Peru

Animal abuse is understood as non-accidental and socially unacceptable human behavior that causes pain, suffering or distress and/or death to an animal. This article aims to determine the conceptualization of the legal good protected against the crime of animal abuse when they are improperly exploited or treated with extreme cruelty; in the face of the impact on biodiversity and the ecosystem, typified in the Peruvian criminal system within property crimes, which leads to the interest of the owner being protected and not the life of the animal, producing legal-criminal conflicts in the sense that a difficulty is created to punish the crime. The method used is a topic review, exploratory in scope, with a thematic analysis design. From the results it has been corroborated that the annual number of animal abuse in the world amounts to 115 million, only to use them for cosmetic and scientific purposes; Japan, the United Kingdom, China, Canada and the United States are the countries that together carry out this practice in a percentage greater than 55% of the 115 million. It is concluded that Peruvian Law No. 30407 classifies animal abuse as a crime, in article 206-A of the Penal Code, producing doctrinal discussions referring to the protected legal good, causing insufficient guarantees to protect the animal life that society and society Actually, it demands it.

A Legal Ban on Dog Meat Production: Political Decision-Making for an Ethical Community.

For over 40 years, the human consumption of dog meat has been a controversial issue in South Korea. While some defend it as cultural tradition, others criticize the act as unethical treatment of dogs. This study examined the public perceptions and opinions driving the legislative efforts to ban dog meat through an online survey of 1000 participants assessing their experiences with dog meat, awareness of related issues, and support for institutional bans. The results revealed a widespread negative view of the dog meat industry, largely due to concerns over animal cruelty, and a negligible demand for consuming dog meat, which points to the expected demise of the industry. However, there was notable resistance to the ban from the view that it restricts personal freedom, with anthropocentric attitudes hindering progress in animal welfare. Regression analysis identified gender, political affiliations, animal experiences, and perceptions of dog meat as key predictors of support for the ban. As beloved pets, dogs influence human ethics, and the growing awareness of animal ethics has led to a 'political turn' enabling policymakers to enact bans. This study highlights how animal welfare benefits from political actions backed by societal consensus.

Perception of Animal Welfare and Animal Abuse among Veterinary Students: Role of Individual and Sociodemographic Factors.

Animal welfare and animal abuse, although measurable, exhibit a high degree of subjectivity that conditions how they are perceived and the level of sensitivity. Both elements are influenced by individual and sociodemographic factors. To determine the perception of animal welfare among veterinary students and to study the main sociodemographic factors influencing the assessment of animal welfare. To evaluate animal welfare perception at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, a 20-question survey was deployed via the Google Surveys platform. Distributed across all academic years, it was facilitated with QR codes located within the faculty premises. The data collection occurred from November 1, 2022, to November 30, 2022. A total of 223 students responded the questionnaire about perception of animal abuse, which represents 56.3% of the total enrollment in the academic year 2022-2023. Sensitivity to animal welfare, including academic training on how to respond to animal abuse, increased as students progressed through their studies. However, as students approached the end of their studies, they became less willing to make voluntary efforts. The profile of the veterinary student least sensitive to animal abuse appeared to be men without dogs who reside in rural habitats and have family members involved in hunting or fishing. We propose the implementation of intensive courses on animal welfare throughout the veterinary curriculum, along with an understanding of the veterinarian's role in reporting animal abuse. This approach aims to foster a foundation of critical awareness and commitment to animals.

Potential of Cactus Leather in Pakistan's Leather Industry: A Qualitative Analysis.

The rising trend of sustainability worldwide has significantly influenced various industries, transformed not only retail but also reshaped the luxury sector. One notable shift is the increasing focus on vegan leather, with cactus leather emerging as a promising alternative. This study explores the potential of cactus leather in Pakistan, particularly how it can contribute to sustainability in the country's leather industry. By introducing cactus leather, the research aims to raise awareness about sustainable practices and offer a viable alternative to traditional animal leather. The methodology employed in this study is qualitative, based on interviews with leather manufacturers, and the data was analyzed using a thematic analysis framework. The key findings highlight the potential of cactus leather as a sustainable substitute for animal leather, emphasizing its durability, aesthetic appeal, and environmental benefits. Cactus leather not only provides a cruelty-free option but also addresses issues related to pollution and water usage in leather production. The research aims to introduce cactus leather to the Pakistani market, particularly in regions like Thar and Kharan in Sindh and Baluchistan, where cactus farming could thrive and benefit local communities. Cactus leather eliminates the need for animal-based materials, allowing consumers to wear leather products without the associated guilt of animal cruelty. Additionally, the production process of cactus leather is less water-intensive and requires fewer toxic chemicals than traditional leather processing, further reducing its environmental impact. This study underscores the potential for cactus leather to revolutionize the leather industry in Pakistan, aligning with global sustainability trends and offering a practical solution to environmental and ethical concerns.

Tinjauan Yuridis Penerapan Hukuman Terhadap Pelaku Tindak Pidana Penganiayaan Hewan

This research aims to find out and provide an explanation of how criminal sanctions are applied to protect animal abuse in Indonesia and to find out and provide an explanation of how criminal sanctions are imposed on perpetrators of animal abuse. This research uses the Normative Juridical method. Legal sources are collected from primary data such as laws and Supreme Court decisions, secondary data such as books and scientific journals, and tertiary data such as legal dictionaries. Data collection techniques are through literature study, while legal data processing is through presentation, interpretation, analysis and systematization of applicable laws. Legal analysis is carried out comprehensively and descriptively to explain the problems studied. The results of this research show that the Indonesian Government, through the Criminal Law Law and Law No. 18 of 2009 which was amended by Law No. 41 of 2014, emphasizes the importance of treating animals well. These laws aim to protect animals and ensure their use is done ethically and responsibly. With the main principle of Respectful Treatment, Animals must be treated well and not harmed. Animal Welfare: Animals' physical, mental and emotional needs must be considered, including providing a safe environment and sufficient food. Avoiding Overexploitation, Animals should not be used excessively for the benefit of humans. Protection from Inappropriate Treatment, Animals must be protected from violence and torture. This law aims to maintain animal welfare, respect ethical values, maintain ecosystem balance, and protect public health from diseases that can spread from animals.

Protection of animal welfare and regulation of animal experimentation

To the young recent graduate who is asked which faculty he wants to pursue and who answers us: veterinary medicine because he loves animals, we often find ourselves inclined, referring to the rhetorical wisdom of gray hairs. to suggest to him that he should abandon the youthful illusion that our profession can enable him to keep these feelings intact, but rather to look at the veterinary profession as a profession that is carried out in the service of society, in a spasmodic attempt to please it in all its innumerable needs or whims, almost all of which are oriented toward the exploitation of animals.

Animal exploitation by the last hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Iberia. New data from the Mesolithic groups from Cocina cave (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)

Mesolithic groups in Mediterranean Iberia lived during a period of bioclimatic and cultural changes. Thus, their economic behaviour and the availability of plant and animal resources show some interesting variation compared to previous periods that indicate changes in mobility patterns and social connectivity networks. This paper presents information on patterns of animal exploitation of the last hunter-gatherers in this region through zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of faunal remains from one of the key sites of the Iberian Peninsular Mesolithic, Cocina cave. This site is located in a mountainous woodland region with a rich Late Mesolithic archaeological record. Results indicate that Iberian ibex, red deer, and rabbits were the most hunted species, but that a diversity of other taxa were also present. The comparison to other Mediterranean sites suggests that Late Mesolithic foragers had common animal exploitation patterns with an increased taxonomic diversification and a clear connection to coastal areas. We suggest these foragers practiced a logistic pattern of food procurement, combining long-term with short-term camps including hunting spots, and in some cases evidence for broad scale social interactions. We hypothesize that Cocina cave may have served as a nexus of social and subsistence activities.

When Cows Become Heroes: The Construction of Animal Subjectivity and Environmental Sustainability in the Swedish Organic food Sector

An escalating consumption of animal products characterizes contemporary Western society, resulting in severe environmental consequences and heightened exploitation of animals. Among these issues, livestock production stands out as particularly detrimental due to its significant climate impact and land usage. Paradoxically, the Swedish organic food sector positions cattle as central to achieving sustainable food production. This article delves into the strategies employed by organic organizations to legitimize the consumption of cattle’s meat and dairy. The aim is to examine how Swedish organic organizations produce knowledge of sustainability, and how these sustainability constructions are intertwined with anthroparchy, a system of power relations between humans and cattle. Furthermore, the study investigates how cattle’s agencies and bodies are portrayed. Interviews, documents and media material from organic organizations in Sweden are analyzed to explore how carnism, norms of eating cattle’s meat and dairy, is maintained. The analytical framework applied is rooted in critical animal studies and draws inspiration from Foucauldian discourse analysis, examining the interplay between power and knowledge. The findings reveal that certain environmental aspects are emphasized to reinforce the norm of keeping cattle for food production, while other dimensions are overlooked. Organic organizations represent cows as active subjects transforming their environment to legitimize their status as consumable commodities. The findings also show how carnistic norms limit the organic sector’s ability to achieve environmental objectives. This study underscores how anthroparchy, the dominant power structures between humans and cattle, is reproduced in the Swedish organic context through sustainability discourses that emphasize the subjectivities of cattle.

The effects of the Dark Tetrad of personality by gender on animal abuse: A moderation analysis

The effects of the Dark Tetrad of personality by gender on animal abuse: A moderation analysis

Case Study On the Landmark Ruling On Jallikattu- A Critical Analysis Contemplating the Deviation from Ecocentric Approach

The case "Animal Welfare Board of India vs. A. Nagaraja & Ors," which was determined on May 7, 2014 and Animal Welfare Board of India & Ors vs Union Of India & Anr decided on May 18, 2023, dealt with the practice of Jallikattu. Jallikattu is a traditional event in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra that involves bulls. This activity, in which individuals attempt to seize money fastened to the horns of a bull, has developed into a pastime that inflicts considerable suffering and injury to the animals. The Supreme Court of India determined that the utilization of bulls in activities such as Jallikattu and bullock cart racing amounted to cruelty, therefore infringing upon the animals' entitlements under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, which ensures the right to life and freedom. The court's ruling underscored the need of ethical treatment of animals, in accordance with current perspectives on animal welfare. The verdict aimed to prohibit these activities in order to prevent the physical and psychological torment of bulls utilized for human amusement during cultural festivities. This ruling represented a noteworthy advancement in acknowledging and safeguarding animal rights in India, but also considering the need to prevent animal abuse and ensure public safety, while taking into account traditional customs. The case exemplified the convergence of law, culture, and animal ethics, establishing a precedent for the compassionate treatment of animals within the legal framework of the country.

The significance and legal assessment of Zoophilia and Zoophilic Acts, with special reference to Hungary

The recognition of the inherent intrinsic value of living beings clearly characterizes the legislation of Europe in the last few decades, a process that can be seen in the refinement of the legal status of animals, in the increasingly detailed regulations of animal welfare rules, in the tightening of regulations against animal cruelty, in some constitutional changes, and in the prohibitions related to zoophilic acts. Zoophilia is as old as humanity, and although the attitude towards it was not uniform in different historical eras, it was rather negatively judged and prohibited. It is important to distinguish between zoophilia as a psychiatric paraphilia and zoophilic acts as legally relevant acts. In the past few years, sexual abuse committed against vulnerable groups has been in the spotlight in Europe, society's sensitivity is growing and we can witness the tightening of regulations. Although animals cannot be considered victims in the narrow legal sense due to their lack of legal capacity, these processes will also affect the legal assessment of zoophilic acts. In the case of zoophilia, there seems to be a high latency, few cases come to light, but they cause strong public indignation. In the long term, it is likely that even those countries that currently do not sanction or do not sanction zoophilia at the criminal law level (such as Hungary) will take stronger action against it in the future.

Grušovnik, Tomaž, Reingard Spannring, and Karen Lykke Syse, eds. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021

Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze edited by Tomaž Grušovnik, Reingard Spannring, and Karen Lykke Syse, stands as a groundbreaking work that delves into the intricate phenomenon of denialism, a critical barrier in addressing ecological crises and advancing animal rights. Through its compelling interdisciplinary lens, the book dissects the psychological, sociocultural, and political underpinnings of denial, challenging entrenched anthropocentric views. This review provides a critical analysis of the book and highlights its pivotal role in bridging theoretical ethics with real-world environmental and animal welfare challenges. The editors’ adept selection of contributions guides readers through a thought-provoking journey in denialism, encompassing personal introspection, societal critique, and a scrutinizing look at economic, political, and legal frameworks. Despite its primarily Western-centric perspective, the book is essential in advocating for a broader, more inclusive global dialogue in future research. The book emerges not just as an academic text but as an urgent call to action, resonating with scholars, policymakers, and activists. In essence, this work emphasizes the necessity for a transformative shift in how we perceive and interact with the natural world and its non-human inhabitants.

Tools of preventive police activity in the field of combating cruelty to animals

Theoretical and practical approaches to the organization of the activities of police units recently, especially in the conditions of martial law, require rethinking and more efficient and effective mechanisms. Martial law significantly increased the level of trust of the population in the police, on the one hand, and on the other hand – created even more difficulties in the organization of their activities. Determining one of the priorities of the police activity of ensuring people’s rights, reformatting activities from penal to service branch, ensuring safety and order in society – all this contributes to the process of intensifying the improvement of views on the need to ensure the formation of high moral standards and a high level of legal culture in society. The specified provision on changing the theoretical orientation of scientific approaches to practical ones. It follows that prevention, as the main type of police activity, should be aimed at meeting the needs of society, and not at developing indicators of crime detection. It is noted that the forms and methods of police activity at the current stage of combining theory and practice should be considered as tools of police activity. The tools of preventive activity were analyzed, they were divided into groups, and the areas requiring further development were characterized. Cruelty to animals is one of the negative factors that affect the legal awareness and morality of society. The prevention of such an occasion is the basis for the formation of a further highly moral society and the reduction of cruelty among people. The content of the police toolkit, which is used to prevent animal cruelty in Ukraine, is explained. Attention is focused on the organizational tools of preventive activities regarding cruelty to animals.

Animal Suffering in Global Development and Antipoverty Praxis: Enforced Animal Labor in the Peripheral Capitalism of Indian Brick Kilns

Alleviation of human suffering is a key driver of antipoverty praxis. Poverty is a human experience of suffering from the violence of development, which often uses animals as relief and is insufficient to understand multispecies endurances of development. Positioning suffering per se as a critical reason to rethink development, this article aims to politicize animals’ emotional, physical, and psychological suffering from being not human in relation to the human in development and antipoverty praxis. Animal suffering, although sharing characteristics with sufferings of vulnerable humans in poverty, contains distinct harms that arise from being not human. This article brings together relational poverty politics and critical animal geographies to showcase the sociospatial suffering of animals, entrenched in their inherent commodity-labor status, in and against the grain of poverty, the corollary of racial-anthropocentric-capitalist global development. It focuses on animals in coercive labor in the brick kilns in India’s periurban regions, sites of peripheral capitalism that are constitutive of global production, and frontiers of extreme (human) poverty, and ecological degradation. Attending to fleeting moments of “everyday multispecies brilliance” from the grounded interspecific realities of the brick kilns, the article introduces human–animal relations into relational poverty politics, to overturn the anthropocentric theoretical hegemony of development and poverty, and address animal and human suffering together toward an anti-anthropocentric, antipoverty development praxis.

ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL SANCTIONS FOR PEOPLE OF ANIMAL ABUSE

The old Indonesian Criminal Code, which is a translation of Wetboek van Strafrecht for Nederlandsch Indie, has provided regulations regarding the abuse of animals. However, so far there are still many cases of animal abuse, because people consider this act to be trivial and the criminal sanctions are not too severe. The aim of writing this article is to find out appropriate and strict rules to prevent animal abuse. This article was written using a normative legal research method with a statutory approach. The results of this research are that regulations regarding animal abuse should be equipped with more specific regulations and heavier sanctions so that they can run effectively.

Animal cruelty legislation in India: A green criminological exploration

We see laws being constantly updated responding to the onslaught of changing times and circumstances and value settings of society. However, such dynamism in the legal spectrum appears to be lopsided once laws on animal cruelty are glanced over. Laws on animal cruelty seem to be following a pattern that is not so dynamic and abreast of the evolving moral compass of society. It is critically observed in the course of this research that much like the legislation preventing animal cruelty, cruelty against animals, ironically, exhibits an upward graph. In pursuit of resolving this irony, especially in the context of India, the aim of this paper is to explore the concept of ‘animal cruelty’ within the Indian animal protection legislation to identify substantive and conceptual gaps while situating the statutes within the theoretical perspective of green criminology. The paper explores and critiques the concept of ‘animal cruelty’ within the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960. The research exercise reveals that the laws display a strong hue of anthropocentric instrumentalism denigrating animals as commodities in service to humans. The statutes under study allow for a wide array of abuse towards animals, permitting those harms as necessary suffering. The grandest of the lacunae is the absence of provisions for protecting animals from sexual and psychological violence. This green criminological exposé is supplemented, in conclusion, by valuable insights and remedies sourced from the green criminological theory itself in the form of a radical deconstruction and rethinking of how animals are treated in legal practice and ways to expand our notion to a non-specialist understanding of crimes, victims and justice.

The Study on Ethical Implications of Using Animals in Circuses for Entertainment with Special Reference to Chennai

The use of animals in circuses for entertainment raises a significant number of ethical concerns. These concerns center around the potential for animal suffering, the unnaturalness of the environment and activities, and the inherent exploitation of animals for human enjoyment. Training animals for circus performances often involves harsh methods, including physical punishment, deprivation, and psychological manipulation. These methods can cause significant physical and psychological harm to animals. Objectives for Exploring the Ethical Implications of Using Animals in Circuses for Entertainment: To understand the scope of the issue, To investigate the potential harms inflicted upon animals in circuses, To evaluate the justifications for using animals in circuses, To analyze the legal and ethical frameworks surrounding animal use in circus, To explore alternative forms of animal entertainment, To inform public opinion and policy decisions. Modern circuses often prioritize flashy tricks and spectacle over genuine education about animal behavior and conservation. Animals are treated as commodities, exploited for human amusement, and denied their intrinsic value as sentient beings. Animals are deprived of the freedom to make their own choices and live according to their natural instincts. Performing unnatural and often dangerous tricks can cause physical injury and psychological trauma. The total number of sample respondents in the age group of 18-50 years are collected .The overall sample size collected through queries 206.The statistical tools used are Graphical representation the independent variables are age groups, gender, educational Qualifications, occupation and Place of residence

An Exploration of Type of Animal Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence

ABSTRACT Prior research has identified a relationship between animal abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV). However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the relationship between IPV and type of animal abused. From a sample of 851 participants, this study explored, using unadjusted odds ratios, the bivariate relationships between types of IPV victimization (e.g., psychological, physical, and severe IPV) and partners’ abuse of cats, dogs, small pets, and horses. The strongest association was between the partner’s abuse of cats and severe IPV victimization. The partner’s cat abuse was associated with a 1,232% increase in the likelihood of severe IPV for women and a 945% increase for men. Cat abuse and dog abuse were significantly associated with all types of IPV, abuse of small pets was associated with physical and severe IPV, and horse abuse was not significantly related to IPV. Additionally, this study examined the relationship between types of animal abuse (e.g., neglect, emotional abuse, threats, physical abuse, and severe physical abuse) for cats and dogs and IPV. Cat neglect was most strongly associated with severe IPV and increased the likelihood of it by approximately 3,700%. Dog neglect increased the likelihood of severe IPV by approximately 1,600%. Results from the study indicate that there are differences between type of animal abused in relationship to IPV and highlights the need for future research to examine types of animal abuse separately.

The Problem of Animal Suffering

This chapter concerns sentient, nonhuman animals, all of them, both domesticated and those in the wild. Typically, the animal kingdom, in its most loosely stated definition, includes every living thing in distinction from the plant kingdom. In this world, they suffer, sometimes horribly, because of the law of the jungle, as well as at the hands of human beings. For an all-powerful, all-loving, all-knowing god to have created the egregiously horrific and unnecessary predatory relationship among his creatures requires a rejection of god and his religion. My argument is that the amount of massive ubiquitous horrendous animal suffering in the world cannot be reconciled with god and is one of the strongest reasons to reject him/her/it.

Anthropomorphizing Animals: Foxhunting Stories and the Nature Faker Controversy

Abstract This paper uses a selection of foxhunting stories to explore the way in which anthropomorphized foxes were used to communicate pro-hunting messages to their mostly young readers. These justifications also appeared in nonfictional foxhunting sporting literature. Indeed, this literature included some of the same incredible anecdotes that also appeared in the work of nature writers at the turn of the twentieth century such as Charles G.D. Roberts and Ernest Thompson Seton working in a new sympathetic genre called the “animal story.” These writers found themselves under attack because naturalists like John Burroughs, and hunters, including President Theodore Roosevelt, found their stories to be inaccurate and anthropocentric. Roosevelt dubbed them the “nature fakers.” Foxhunting “histories” employed imaginative material and much anthropomorphism but were not attacked for doing so. This tends to indicate that anthropomorphisms were more acceptable when they were facilitating animal exploitation than when they were used to promote the perspective of nonhuman animals.