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New Laws Protect Animal Abusers
How Exposing Animal Cruelty Could Land You In Jail
In a democratic society which prides itself on values of freedom and justice, and whose citizens frequently proclaim themselves to be ‘animal lovers’, who would have thought that exposing animal cruelty could land you in jail, or that governments would be eager to create new laws to protect animal abusers, rather than protecting the victims or those trying to prevent the abuse?
Sadly, this is the reality of the 21st Century, where money rules and kindness and compassion appear to be nothing more than annoying inconveniences that get in the way of profit. Think I’m exaggerating? Read on…
In 2014 an undercover investigation by Mercy For Animals exposed sickeningly cruel treatment of turkeys at a farm belonging to ‘Hybrid Turkeys’, one of the largest turkey breeders in the world and who supply 60% of the turkeys sold in grocery stores across Canada. The horrific footage showed the turkeys being raised in cramped, dirty conditions, many of them being left to slowly die in agony with gaping, puss-filled wounds. Workers were filmed kicking and throwing turkeys, crushing their spines with bolt cutters and beating them with shovels.
Most of us would recoil at such extreme cruelty and abuse and it might be natural that you would expect…
