Animal Rights and Abuse

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This paper focuses on society's disregard for animals and the lack of concern for the corporate and institutionalized violence and cruelty inflicted upon animals. The paper suggests that people have become blind to animal cruelty as a result of social and commercial conditioning. The paper also considers the economic, social, agricultural, and commercial factors that may contribute to the general tolerance of animal cruelty.

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"Animal rights simply refer to the intrinsic rights and basic moral sense that sees all life as important and connected. It refers to a basic ethical respect for all living beings. Cruelty and abuse to any living being is an infringement of these basic ethical human principles. This is made worse when those who are abused are animals that cannot speak or defend themselves. Similarly, the abuse of animals is an infringement not only of these basic rights that all living beings should enjoy but it also casts as shadow on the morality and meaning of human nature itself. Animal rights are defined by the Animal Rights Movement as follows."

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