11. Compassionate Living // Animals Australia
are routinely subjected to painful procedures such as branding, de-horning, castration and mulesing, which are conducted without pain relief in order to keep down costs. Animal-free alternatives (such as fake leather, cotton, linen and
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12. Pledge to Choose Non Animal-Tested Products | Sign the Pledge | Animals Aus...
to chemicals that may cause painful eye and skin irritation, developmental abnormalities, cancer and death. The pain from such tests can be excruciating, yet animals are typically not given pain relief, as scientists often fear that anaesthetics
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13. Chickens victims of cruelty, not just ducks // Animals Australia
which causes them to become painfully crippled and suffer from heart failure. All are in chronic pain by the time they reach slaughter weight. We also kill and maim 11 million battery hens. We mutilate their beaks with lasers or red-hot blades,
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14. Why the artificial insemination of turkeys is a feminist issue // Animals A...
turkeys to suffer increased pain and trauma due to rough handling.
This forced masturbation and rape is repeated weekly until the breeder turkeys are slaughtered at one year of age. The AI process is undoubtedly painful and causes
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15. Rodeos // Animals Australia
can cause considerable pain, and also spinal injury.
Bareback and saddle bronc riding
In these bucking events, the contestant attempts to stay on a horse for eight seconds, holding on with one hand. A flank straps and spurs are used
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16. For the mothers who give us milk // Animals Australia
are the most poignant and painful auditory memories I carry in my brain." So long as humans believe that they have more right to a mother's milk than her own child such torment will continue. For the individual mother she will suffer the pain
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17. Codes of Cruelty // Animals Australia
in factory farms, experience pain and suffering in the same ways as our beloved pets. Yet the Australian legal system actively and deliberately excludes these animals from protection against cruel treatment. The sole reason being ensuring that
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18. Broiler Chickens Fact Sheet // Animals Australia
of the shed may lead to painful ulceration of the skin known as breast blister.
Lameness caused by dislocation of joints and bone fractures are major and unavoidable consequence of selective breeding for increased growth rates. Many
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19. Jumps Horse injures Warrnambool punters | Animals Australia
induced the same amount of pain that horses go through and see if they can take it. Let them jump and break their neck I have no SYMPATHY for tnem. These poor animals who can't spek for themselves are left with no choice. No one cares about
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20. The Fur Trade // Animals Australia
inflict great and prolonged pain as they are either not designed to kill or fail to do so.
Wildlife traps are not selective; they don't discriminate between animal species. For every 'wanted' animal, another one to four so called 'trash'
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