...cruelty?
I believe that animal cruelty is an extension of humanity's unwillingness to extend compassion and respect to the entire kingdom of sentient creatures.
Three reasons I believe this are 1) man continues to use animals in laboratory testing when the experiments are redundant and results are still the same today as they were twenty years ago; 2) man refuses to acknowledge animals are conscious creatures who are wholly entitled to a life without pain and suffering; and 3) man still forces animals to live in artificial environments in order to satisfy his own entertainment needs.
The first reason illustrates just how much animal cruelty that continues to occur today is because man holds on to the tried and true ways of day past without having a good reason to do so (Perry, 2007). Cosmetic industries no longer need to test their finished products or individual ingredients on animals because they have done so over and over again with the same outcome; to continue inflicting the pain,...