Yet, despite
the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to «have courage and be kind.»
Eating Mercifully is a short documentary that explores Christian perspectives on
the cruelty inflicted upon millions of factory farmed animals in our world every day.
For decades factory farming industries have profited from the fact that
the cruelty they inflict upon animals has been hidden from the public.
«My hope is that our elected officials will make this the year that New York becomes a more humane state by passing laws to end some of the worst
cruelties inflicted upon animals.»
But before we westerners go pointing fingers and condemning other countries and cultures for their inhumane practices, let's look in the mirror and take responsibility for
the cruelties we inflict upon animals day after day in our own respective countries, whether in factory farming, puppy mills, entertainment, or the fur trade.
Not exact matches
This
cruelty is compounded in light of the responsible deity having infinite alternatives which would not have involved
inflicting severe terror, suffering and pain
upon children and infants.
When abuse of animals is widespread, when the bellowing of thirsty animals in cattle cars is heard and ignored, when
cruelty still prevails in many slaughterhouses, when animals are clumsily and painfully butchered in our kitchens, when brutish people
inflict unimaginable torments
upon animals and when some animals are exposed to the cruel games of children, all of us share in the guilt.7
Injustice, oppression, famine, the everyday big and little
cruelties which we
inflict upon others must be fought.
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand
upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case
inflict upon it a wanton
cruelty.
As I do not want for any
cruelty to be
inflicted upon the Pit Bulls, I do think the breed needs to die out over time.
We will never know why and who
inflicted such misery and
cruelty upon this dog.
Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise,
inflicts unnecessary
cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or
upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or
cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.