EMPTY ALL CAGES

1. Birds don’t belong in cages. Bored, lonely, denied the opportunity to fly, deprived of companionship.

     2.  Many birds become neurotic in cages – pulling out feathers, bobbing their heads incessantly, and repeatedly pecking

       3.  A Canadian Police study found that 70 percent of people arrested for animal cruelty had past records of other violent crimes.

4. Alligators on farms may be beaten with hammers and axes, sometimes remaining conscious and in pain for 2 hours after skinning.

     

    

5. Cows  produce milk for the same reason that humans do- to nourish their young – but on dairy farms calves are taken away at 1 day old.

6. 1 day old  calves are fed milk replacements (including cattle blood) so that their mothers’ milk can be sold to humans .

7. Cows do not “give” humans their milk and calves have to be” used” for something else so humans can have the milk.

8. Snakes and lizards are skinned alive because of the belief that live flaying makes leather more supple.

9. The skins of unborn calves and lambs – some aborted, others from slaughtered pregnant cows – are considered “luxurious.”

     

    

    

10. 4 to 5 million animals die in shelters every year.

11. Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.

12. An immeasurable amount of suffering goes into every fur-trimmed jacket,  leather belt, and wool sweater.

13. Horrifying  killing methods are used to keep the pelts intact that can result in extreme suffering for the animals.

14.  Larger animals have clamps attached to or rods forced into their mouth or anus so they can be painfully electrocuted.

15. Tens of  thousands of horses from the United States are slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia.

16. Chaining dogs, while unfortunately legal in most areas, is one of the cruelest punishments imaginable for social animals.

17. Dogs used for fighting are chained, taunted, and starved to trigger extreme survival instincts and encourage aggressiveness.

18. Dogs that lose fights (or refuse) are often abandoned, tortured, set on fire, electrocuted, shot, drowned, or beaten to death.

19. Regardless of how trivial or painful animal experiments may be, none are prohibited by law.

20. When valid non-animal research methods are available, no law requires experimenters to use such methods instead of animals.

21. More than 100 million animals every year suffer and die in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, biology lessons, etc.

22. For medical experimentation animals can be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged.

23. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.

24. Each year, approximately 10,000 bulls die in bullfights.

     

25. In the 20^th century 27 animals went extinct.
    (Javan Tiger, Amazon River Dolphin, Japanese Wolf)