Animal Abuse in India

 

Animal Abuse in India

~by Priya Jyoti

 

Animal abuse, animal slaughter, animal cruelty, etc. are different names which are for the inhuman behaviour shown to animals by heartless human beings. How human beings have lost their mercy and ethics to treat others is hard to believe in today's world. 

Yesterday, while crossing a road, I saw a truck carrying several buffaloes. It seemed that they were forcefully stuck in that small enclosed box.

Bound with chains, living like a slave, and doing activities forcefully are such things

which have brought people into the fire of curse resulting in unimaginable changes around us. They can't speak but their eyes tell every misery they undergo. Just to entertain people and earn money, humanity has vanished from this world.

Everyone is aware of the pregnant elephant's death in Kerala. It has sparked nationwide outrage. She ate a pineapple that was given by a few people living there. The fruit was laden with crackers and she chewed it. The cracker exploded in her mouth and she died with her little one inside her womb. I still get goosebumps when I think about incidents like this.

 Another question which comes to my mind is how can someone love their child so much and eat another child. Innocent faces of baby animals always ask only one   question, "I am not roast dinner, I am someone's baby. How can you eat me?"

Do they come to this world for someone's special dinner or special cuisine?

 

Everyone goes to watch circus shows and enjoys their time but do we even realise how those animals are being trained to entertain us? Their life depends on the person who is their trainer. We can't imagine the tortures through which they go while training. They live like a slave without any reason.

On every corner around our locality, we see posters or hoardings with a message on animal abuse. Many of us feel the words and the pictures with full emotions but 8 out of 10 people forget about the same within a few minutes. This happens and hardly anyone is paying attention toward the enhancement of cruelty on animals by humans.

Why humanity has lost its principles???

 

 

20 out of 28 states in India currently have various laws regulating the activities of a slaughtered cow, prohibiting the slaughter or sale of cows.

Kerala, Manipur, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and West Bengal are the well known states where there are no prohibitions or restrictions on cow slaughter.

Kerala holds a beef festival. Is it a festival where lives are taken away from innocents?

 While scrolling my social media account I stopped my finger on this post in the past. To get fame and followers he has put someone's life in danger. For money and entertainment, animals' lives are at risk. Thousands of cases of animal abuse can be seen around us but hardly anyone takes action. If any of those cases do not put fire on the internet, cruelty towards animals continues.

We share our community with each living organism and we should respect this. Animal love is not only about loving dogs but respecting other creatures too. We can raise our voices against any such case around us. With each step, we can climb mountains and give them an equal share in the community. They deserve justice for everything happening to them which should not happen at all.