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Animal Cruelty: Acts of violence or neglect perpetrated against animais are considered animal cruelty. Some examples are overt abuse, dog fighting and cockfighting, and denying a companion animal the basic necessities of care, such as food, water or shelter.


Animal Hoarding or Collecting: Obsessive/compulsive disorder in which individual keeps a large number of animals-sometimes mais than 100-in his or her home, and neglects to care for the animais and the início environment; "collectors" are usually in extreme denial about the situation. Technically, hoarding can be considered a crime, as it...

The text below is an approximate translation of an article's excerpt that I read at National Geographic magazine.

The direction to the market typically begins the moment when some poor hunters and farmers capture wild animais for local poachers who promote them higher.In Asia wild animais end up at reception tables and pharmacies and in western countries at living rooms as decorative objects.The income of of this exploitaton is proportional to to the one of an auction of art works,the rarer the object the higher the cost.

Even though noone knows exactly the actual enormity of wild life poaching,one...

There is no doubt that the best test species for humans are humans. It is not possible to extrapolate animal data directly to humans due to interspecies variation in anatomy, physiology and biochemistry.

Advancing in science is important. It is what helps us understand the world in which we live, and is especially important for medical research. However, some believe the myth that, in order to effectively continue our research, we must experiment on animals. This is not the case at all and, in fact, can give us inconclusive results. Here are just a few of the alternatives that are not only cruelty-free,...